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As many San Franciscans know, getting food after midnight in this town is no easy feat. We still have our share of late-night diners though, like the Grub Steak, Sparky's, Lori's and Mel's. Only one made the cut in Playboy magazine's A-list of the Top 10 Late-Night Diners in the country that "truly embody the late-night experience," and that's Orphan Andy's on 17th Street in the Castro.
They note that the energy there is "off the charts between two and five a.m.," but they make it sound like the Castro is just a historic district where it's strange to find a diner, and not a hub of bars where drunk people require greasy food after last call. What Playboy was doing in the Castro we're still trying to figure out.
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It is one of the best around!
Don't worry about how "they make it" sound. The writer is assigned to simply write some fluffy blurb and to keep it under 100 words (They used 86, to be exact).
Playboy Names Orphan Andy's in Castro One of Nation's Best Late-Night Diners
I only go there for the Gore Vidal articles.
I have raised my monocle to my eye so that I may declare that I do not approve, sir, not one bit.
*Love* Orphan Andy's.
Hate that this Playboy article will direct drunken fratboys to come and be assholes.
I will give you a million dollars if this actually happens. Which it won't.
I get drunk. I have fratty tendencies.
I'm always on the lookout for 4th-meal post-booze fare.
Do fratboys even read Playboy anymore? i ask this question in earnest. These, the walking cliches of overindulgence, i would think, would prefer their porno harder...
Was this place once called Andys Donuts, in the 70s? Many memories of late nites there. Also the greasy spoon diner next door, named?
No, really. Yuck. Dirty and bad service. Admittedly, I've only been for early breakfast (6 am), but the food is not good either.
Bagdad Cafe is a much better option for breakfast. Homefries are great and the place is much cleaner.
If Bagdad is the preferred choice, Andy's must be a fetid hellhole.
Andy's is fun ... I like Video Cafe on Geary for late night bites too.
This is hilarious.
I've lived in the Castro for 26 years, walk by this place daily (including countless times during the off-the-charts hours of 2:00-5:00 am) and it's never tempted me even one time in 26 years to go in there.
Regarding the Playboy blurb - I guarantee their readers have absolutely no clue what LGBT means. But at least it's mentioned in a "no-big-deal" manner instead of the usual "warning! prepare yourself for seeing a lot of gay men" route straight publications are so prone to take.
"Regarding the Playboy blurb - I guarantee their readers have absolutely no clue what LGBT means."
I'd be willing to bet good money the vast majority do. It's basically just Esquire with the occasional soft-focused pair of tits. (Now, Hustler could be another story.)
I'm not sure what "straight" publications you're referring to otherwise...Christian Science Monitor? Good Housekeeping?