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Ellen's Stardust Diner
#25re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 9:48amNYers don't go near places like that, mainly because the lines are so long and you pay for the theme and besides, trying to pay my rent takes all my damn money!
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#26re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 9:53amGeek, you pay your own rent? I thought you were about 14yo?
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#27re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 10:31am
Congrats. I was there last summer on a school trip. Loved it.
Have fun.
#28re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 10:53amI've stayed away from there every time I've been to New York City. From what people have told me, the food is okay, but it takes FOREVER to get seated. By the time you're seated, it's so loud from all the people singing you can't even enjoy your overpriced meal. So, I don't plan on ever going there.
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#29re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:00amI love it. It takes a long time to be seated, but I plan on going there if I get to go to NYC for my 18th birthday. It's a lot of fun!
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#30re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:27am
Sorry to thread-jack but...
Why do so many New Yorkers hate tourists so much?? They are a big part of keeping the economy going in New York so it's not that bad. Plus I'd think they'd be used to seeing them since people come to New York nonstop.
Just wondering b/c I see those comments so many times. 
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Updated On: 6/4/06 at 11:27 AM
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#31re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:28am
I do not hate tourist as whenever we travel we are tourists. that is pithy I know
If not for tourists, Broadway would be in deep doo doo
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#32re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:31am
Yeah I just hate it how some people generalize all people who come to New York into one category that makes them seem unintelligent. There are people who come to New York b/c it is a great place and don't have the great fortune to live there (yet) and would rather go see a show like Sweeney Todd instead of The Lion King, which you can see in any other town. 
"Michael's got a head like a Ping Pong Ball"
-The Cast of Sweeney-
Updated On: 6/4/06 at 11:31 AM
#33re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 12:14pm
tourists have a way of walking REALLY SLOWLY in lines of 3 or 4 and taking up the entire sidewalk... then coming to a sudden stop to gawk up at some building and therefore pissing off all of manhattan. just an example
I'm not from new york, so i wasn't always this bitter. and some tourists are better than others. but i often when i'm in midtown i feel like they are invading where i live and ruining the ordered chaos of manhattan. just by two cents on tourists...
#34re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 12:17pm
Here's my question: How do you define tourists?
Granted, I don't live in New York, but I don't consider myself a tourist. I would think that tourist is more a type of attitude in the city than just based on where you're from. I live in Connecticut, but go to the city a lot, but does living in CT make me a tourist? I would think not, because when I think tourist, I think of someone who stops in the middle of the sidewalk to stare at all the big billboards and take a picture at every place possible. Also, people who buy those I ♥ NY shirts etc. I don't do that, I walk with the "New York attitude." I pride myself on the fact that I know my way around the city very well, and rarely have to ask how to get somewhere. But am I still a tourist?
#35re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 12:22pmno, DRS. you are not in fact a tourist. And i think by the mere fact that you recognize the difference in yourself and tourists you have crossed over into the safe zone we nyc people live in. welcome to the gang.
#36re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 1:36pmIf you're going to Ellen's, go early (as in around 6, as long as its not a 2 show day) or late (7:30 or later). The trick is to miss the theatre croud.
Whatever happened to class?
#37re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 1:47pmI love Ellen's, and I've never had to wait long for seating. I agree with ElphabaRose, if you just avoid the obvious bad times, you should be alright. I've gone 3 times and never had a problem.
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#38re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 1:47pm
But again, you have to understand no matter how annoying it might be that a lot of people don't get to come to New York that often and when they do they are amazed by what they see. That's why they stop and look up. It happens all the time and is expected. I think too many people take for granted that not everyone in New York is from New York. It's the biggest city in the world so people are going to want to come there and look around. It happens.
Sorry, we can get back to talking about the Stardust again, lol.
"Michael's got a head like a Ping Pong Ball"
-The Cast of Sweeney-
Updated On: 6/4/06 at 01:47 PM
#39re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 1:52pmlove it
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#40re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 1:58pmI love that place except this one girl who worked there was not really nice.
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#41re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 2:00pmi love that place! i want to work there someday! everyone is just so wonderful! congrats,Seany for working there!
you say i'm weird! look at everyone you're sitting with! and hey, those guys over there just threw napkins up in the air like they were on something! it's contajous! you can't help it!
#42re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 2:00pmi love that place! i want to work there someday! everyone is just so wonderful! congrats,Seany for working there!
you say i'm weird! look at everyone you're sitting with! and hey, those guys over there just threw napkins up in the air like they were on something! it's contajous! you can't help it!
#43re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 2:00pmi love that place! i want to work there someday! everyone is just so wonderful! congrats,Seany for working there!
you say i'm weird! look at everyone you're sitting with! and hey, those guys over there just threw napkins up in the air like they were on something! it's contajous! you can't help it!
#45re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 3:04pmPaying the rent was a joke to illustrate how prciy restaurants are, and no, I'm not 14.
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#46re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 7:44pmDoes Seany still work there?
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#47re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 10:17pm
The first time I went alone to NYC was in July of 1988 and Ellen's Diner was a Sizzler. I had dinner there one night before I saw "Starlight Express."
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#48re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 10:28pmI love the Stardust, and have never had any problem with the service and have always enjoyed the singing. The food isn't spectacularly amazing, but its definitely good for a diner. And to top it all off, the ice cream and shakes are veryyy good. It is just fun!
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#49re: re: re: re: Ellen's Stardust Diner
Posted: 6/4/06 at 10:39pm
I went there for my birthday a couple of weeks ago, and we had a great time. We got seated quickly, and right before we got seated, we went to sit at the bar, and I got serenaded by a male waiter singing 'Pretty Woman'. One waiter was especially funny, and our waitress came over and serenaded our table.
And in regards to that comment about them being unfair in hiring certain races, they're not.
And the cake they gave me for my birthday was AMAAZING.
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