Deluxe Town Diner In Watertown Serving Up Beloved Blue-Plate Specials

Emma Friedman

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Typically going out to eat takes a toll on the wallet,
but that's why Don Leedy likes to keep things affordable.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
These days, you can eat for a lesson, you can
buy in on a supermarket.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
He owns Deluxetown Diner and Watertown and has for the
past twenty five years. His commitment to serving meals without
all the dollar signs is why the website loved Food
picked his diner as the best to find a blue
plate special in the state. And they've got it all
fish and.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Chips, a turkey dinner with all the fixings, meat loaf
is very popular, and then we have our side vegetables
like go with thills.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Every blue plate special on the menu is prepared before
you walk in the door, so it's fast and each
one costs under twenty dollars.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Diners are mostly nostalgic, and both the menu and service
and the way they look pretty funky places. Well.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Dond's own this place in is two thousand. It's been
a Watertown staple since it was built in nineteen forty
seven after World War Two, and Watertown I'm a Freedman. WBZ,
Boston's news radio