Orillia has 2 full-fledged greasy spoons of the highest calibre. One is Rombo's (they of the wall-mounted McGill porta-potty, already famous on Mudcat)...and Hill's Family Restaurant, where you can get a superb breakfast (if you can stand all the cigarette smoke...yuck!). When I eat at Hill's, I usually get takeout to avoid the smoke.

Orillia also has a couple of not so good greasy spoons...namely George's Family Restaurant (I give them 3 out of 10), the Hastee Tastee Diner (1 out of 10), and the Royal Oak (5 out of 10), and the Golden Dragon (scary! I've never eaten there at all.) The Hastee Tastee may be out of business now, I'm not sure.

The absolute worst greasy spoon I recall was Black Cat Fish & Chips on Avenue Road in Toronto. What a hole. I got the worst goddamn cup of coffee I have ever tasted in my life there. It was 1/3 normal strength, and I think it had been watered down with soapy dish water from the last sinkful in the kitchen. I had one sip of it, recoiled in horror, and left the rest to decay on the counter. This grotesquely bad establishment went out of business in the 80's sometime and has not been missed by anyone.

- LH