About Us

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Owned and operated since 2003 by two sisters and their husbands, Petros and Tonia, Nikos and Katina — the Clipper is truly a family affair. Tonia and Katina grew up in the diner business and their husbands — both from the Greek isle of Andros — run the Yankee Clipper kitchen.

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The Yankee Clipper Diner is truly a family affair and we love to make our customers feels as part of the family. Come in and enjoy a delicious breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and much much more.

The history of the Yankee Clipper Diner dates back to 1946 named after the famous airplane. Depicted here is the original diner established in 1946. 

March 26, 1939, the Pan American B-314 Yankee Clipper made its first trial flight across the mid-Atlantic, from Baltimore, Maryland, all the way to Foynes in Ireland. The airline began regular mail services with the B-314 in May 1939; scheduled flight time was about 29 hours. With increased confidence in its new plane, Pan American finally inaugurated the world's first transatlantic passenger service on June 28, 1939, between New York and Marseilles, France, and on July 8 between New York and Southampton. By the beginning of World War II, Pan American, with its considerable experience in Pacific and South American operations with the famous Clipper service, dominated the transatlantic routes. 

In 1994, Yankee Clipper Diner was the scene for "Nobody's Fool" which starred Paul Newman (Sully).  Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life.