“Food That Pleases” since 1929. This Ponce mainstay is open 24 hours, so stumble on in any time between your visit to Virginia Highlands or to the Clermont, whichever way you roll. Grease comes in traditional diner varieties, from burgers to grits.

Drop by 24 hours in Buckhead or Downtown, or visit the Landmark Jr. on Cheshire Bridge Road (you might recognize it as JJ’s Diner from Parks and Rec). Look for a menu including regular diner fare plus seafood platters and other Greek and Italian specialties.

Since 1956, this family-run favorite has slung buttermilk biscuits, country, ham, red-eye gravy, and meat-and-three favorites, not to mention some killer pies. Ask one of the lifetime waitresses about all the movies and TV shows this joint has been in.

Folk art, retro-dressed wait staff, and solid comfort food make this a neighborhood standby. The family recipes don’t hurt. It’s hard not to find something on their expansive list of breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner options. Plus a thorough offering of cakes, pies, sundaes, and shakes.

It’s worth the schlep. Traditional New York bagels, hand-made cream cheeses, breakfast and lunch melts, and macaroni salad. Don’t forget to read the sixteen commandments and pay particular attention to number three (don’t piss off Al).

For 58 years southerners have been able to count on Waffle House for being open 24-7, keeping the temp low, staffing some pretty fun folks, and serving up breakfast sandwiches, waffles, patty melts, and hash-browns any way you want ‘em (which is a whole lot of ways).

Breakfast worth waiting for. Whole wheat biscuits, plentiful egg scrambles, and chicken and waffles. Did we mention chicken and waffles? Get them.

Established in 1948, this unassuming strip mall favorite serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner around the clock. The menu’s got southern staples (country ham, biscuits and gravy, chicken and dumplings) and Greek classics (moussaka, roasted chicken, gyro platter).