{"id":11239,"date":"2014-04-06T08:24:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T15:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=11239"},"modified":"2014-04-06T08:24:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T15:24:03","slug":"springfield-il-charlie-parkers-diner-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=11239","title":{"rendered":"Springfield, IL – Charlie Parkers Diner Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Charlie<\/a>Three things Springfield, Illinois is known for, not in order of any particular importance: possibly the birthplace of the corn dog<\/a>; home of the locally famous horseshoe sandwich<\/a>; and some dead president with a big hat.<\/p>\n

My reason for stopping was to grab a breakfast horseshoe, Texas toast on a plate, with your choice of breakfast meat, eggs, gravy or cheese sauce or both, and topped with taters. \u00a0Lunch versions add different protein choices, like a burger, fish, or fried chicken, with an option of swapping out tots for hash browns or American fries.<\/p>\n

Housed in a vintage WW2 quonset hut<\/a>, Charlie Parker’s<\/a> is one of several choices you have for popping your horseshoe cherry, and a choice I’m glad I made. \u00a0Once again, better than my expectations for a “local legend”, my only disappointment was not with the food service of ambiance, but rather my own lack of capacity, wishing I could try more than one version at a setting.<\/p>\n

The regular ‘shoe” comes with two pieces of toast and double meat servings; \u00a0a lesser size, for us mere mortals, is called a “pony shoe” and is more of a single serving.<\/p>\n

May well be the best breakfast potatoes I have had anywhere, bar none. \u00a0Service was cheery and helpful, despite a jammed room and long wait.<\/p>\n

Charlie Parker’s may well be a must stop for every visitor to the dead president city or traversing America’s most famous highway, Route 66. Menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Breakfast Shoe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Charlie Parkers Diner Review<\/p>\n

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Three things Springfield, Illinois is known for, not in order of any particular importance: possibly the birthplace of the corn dog; home of the locally famous horseshoe sandwich; and some dead president with a big hat. My reason for stopping was to grab a breakfast horseshoe, Texas toast on a plate, with your choice of… Continue reading Springfield, IL – Charlie Parkers Diner Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,11,16,34,25],"tags":[1789,3057,3294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}