Our Story

The Munson Diner has been around longer than most of us. The original — a 1945 Kullman lunch-car — sat on the corner of 49th and 11th in Hell’s Kitchen for sixty years, feeding cabbies, cops, longshoremen, night-shift nurses, and a cast of regulars that included a young Jerry Seinfeld and the cast of Saturday Night Live.

When Manhattan’s developers came calling in 2005, the diner didn’t get demolished — it got moved. Hauled 100 miles up the Quickway and set down on a new foundation here at 12 Lake Street, Liberty, NY. Same stainless steel. Same booths. New zip code.

“Kalí órexi, honey.”

Today Christos Kritikos and his family run the place — Greek-American homestyle, breakfast served all day, pies baked that morning, gyro on the spit. Christos himself is at the door, ready to greet you.

— Christos Kritikos & family