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Address: 184 Fountain St, Framingham, MA 01702
Phone: (508) 879-8750
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Reviews
The diner, a train car built in 1939, and originally doing business in Worcester, is really fantastic. Eating breakfast here is stepping back in time. Serving breakfast only. Cash only. Plenty of parking. Not really handicap accessible (built before ADA).
Keeping this place going is clearly a ton of work and a labor of love.
We were returning from a trip and decided to take the backroads instead of the interstate. What a happy decision. Thank you Lloyd’s!
Good prices and good food.
Pancakes are the Best.
Cash only.
If I walk in into other breakfast places and I will easily spend over $20 for the same thing and it would be lightly salted, minimal oil or just fake spray for that matter… the meats would be a meat product, and smaller portions.
Big, real sausages, tasty too!!! My order had like 6 eggs!!! You might think like why do I even say that the food is tasty, well if you’re only used to eating at Chipotle, Panera, Qdoba, etc., any of the fast food places it is a different level of taste, they inadvertently palette train you to ‘want’ food products which aren’t even qualifying as real food anymore. Go to Europe, have a tomato there, or a local cheese and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.
By the way do you know why Crumbl Cookies did so well although it’s going to close soon, it’s because it’s Instagram-able. We’re not even listening to our tastebuds anymore. We are eating through marketing.
Back to the tasty sausages and bacon, holy cow who does that today? Toast with a slab of real butter, all real and nothing fake, no ‘food products,’ or chincy. This is like me growing up in the ’70s and ’80s – honest real food at a decent price that’s not trying to jack you.
I might be remiss in saying what isn’t good, well the reason why I haven’t been here for the last 15 years is that it seems like it’s closed a lot, or anytime I go there it’s closed, even so much that I thought it wasn’t open anymore. It’s my fault, I didn’t pay attention to the hours and I realize it’s only open in a small select window which is understood, so it’s operating error on my end.
The people who work there, friendly, charming… I have this feeling that a lot of people don’t engage in small conversation anymore, so it was refreshing to have a couple of the locals talk to each other in the restaurant, me and the server bantering back and forth, it’s so lively. I feel like a lot of people don’t do that today, and just recently too, like in the last 8 years (today is 2025). It’s like it’s normal for people just being in their silo, in public. It wasn’t like that before.
Yes the place is very small because it’s inside of a train car, but Lloyds has more charm then most things in this corporate city world that we live in now. I suggest, it’s only my suggestion, cater to the small businesses (RIP CJ’s), keep your town thriving with vital communal and local energy instead of the corporate mega beasts.
Cash only, but you have to respect that, they’re not paying for the privilege for every transaction that corporate mega beasts asked for, which I’m not saying is good or bad.
Okay I’m still ranting, lol…
I spent half my life in the west coast and a lot of time in New York city, food is simply incredible there. But in Massachusetts although it’s my favorite place, they don’t really do food here. Mass is about schools, colleges, hospitals, pharma and biotech… I’m constantly disappointed with most of my meals here, overpriced, “healthy foods” that aren’t even spice or salted. Let me be the judge of what I consider healthy (which is anything I can grow, hunt or catch), and Mass just not really deep understanding of cultural flavors, like fish sauce, meat with a bones in it, variant of chili sauces, eating opal and innards, it feels like what everybody is eating today is pasta, pizza and chicken products with no bone in it.
Being partial to Mexican food as I grew up with it, been to Mexico numerous times eating tongue, brains, cow feet, tripe – I had a conversation once with a business owner in Boston, making what he calls authentic Mexican food, he said he doesn’t use lard, innards, makes his own pico, salsa or sauces, etc., how is that authentic?
Kudos to Lloyds. Thank you for making amazing, real food for an affordable price.
-End rant and review. Apologies I got so emotional today. 😉
Would come hear again, large portions and attentive staff.