On Friday,
after a show at the Union my friends and I went to the Union Street Diner so I
could examine the environment and feel of the restaurant as it pertains to
Appalachian lifestyle. I always enjoy
coming here, especially at one or two in the morning for a delicious cup of
coffee. The overall look and feel of the
restaurant is like typical small town diners, very quant with a friendly and
open atmosphere, but with so much more. I think it was designed as a very
family friendly place to eat and converse with the local community over a cup
of coffee.
The
customers that come into the restaurant can vary. Usually at one or two in the morning there
are students like my friends, and myself but sometimes there are townies that
come to relax and talk with the friendly staff running the restaurant. The people that usually come here are hard
working locals from the community and students looking for a good place to get
some quality food with a laid back atmosphere. The great food and friendly
space is what drives people to come and spend an hour or two here. Its location from all the craziness of downtown
Athens brings peace to the quant little diner that it is.
Union
Street Diner provides more than just great food, it provides a space where a
community can come together to meet, converse, reflect upon their days, talk
about the great music they saw from the night before, talk about shenanigans
from the night before, and be more of growing community than it ever could
be. It brings the great small town and
happy-go-lucky spirit that Athens has to offer every day. Union Street Diner
proves that Athens is a great small town to be social and interact with people
every day, whether their local townies from in town or in the mountains. It’s a melting pot of Appalachian in every
sense of the word.
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