We have a great little throwback diner in town called Doumar's. It's a place we get to every few months or so, and we met Neel for lunch here yesterday.

Doumar's is a local landmark. It's been around for over a hundred years and is home to the machine that made the first-ever ice cream cone. It's pure vintage in here, from the orange leatherette booths and barstools to the hairnets on the waitresses.

Callum likes to sit at the bar, I like the tiny booths, and sometimes we get served in the car by the carhops...no roller skates.

If I don't order a milkshake ("drugstore thin" for 10 cents extra), I usually have one of their famous limeades. These are so popular that the cups filled with crushed limes are lined up along the counter waiting for the lunch rush. Callum hasn't liked the limeades in the past, but after he ordered water yesterday, he suddenly decided that they were good and offered to share mine.

Your meal comes like this: piles of saran-wrapped burgers and fries, plastic forks and lots of napkins. If you go to Doumar's, you should consider the "famous, cheese on both sides" cheeseburger, the also-famous pork barbeque, minced with slaw, or the BLT where they deep fry the bacon. Or all three.

You'll still spend less that $20, and have money left over for a lime sherbet.