Tiffany's Diner to Start Serving Beer and Alcohol

The owner wants to pull more of an afternoon and weekend crowd to the Maplewood restaurant.

Last summer Tiffany’s Original Diner added snow cones to the menu. This summer, the Maplewood restaurant plans to add beer. Owner Greg Winchell said he’s trying to attract customers that might go down the street to another Maplewood business. “We’re not trying to become a pub or a bar,” he said. “We’re just adding a few more things to the menu, and this on the drink end.” (See related on Patch: A Fur Business is Coming Soon to Clayton) Maplewood City Council passed a motion on Tuesday to approve a liquor license for the diner on the corner of Manchester Road and Sutton Boulevard. At the meeting, City Manager Marty Corcoran said the permit is good as long as 51 percent of the diner's sales remains food. Winchell said most liquor sales would…

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Maplewood City Council to Hear Public Comments on QuikTrip

The city council will hear what the public has to say, then take the first vote on rezoning the NW corner of Manchester and Big Bend.

The Maplewood City Council, tonight at 7:30 at Maplewood City Hall, will listen to public comments on rezoning the northwest corner of Manchester Road and Big Bend Boulevard, which if passed, would allow QuikTrip to move there from its present location. The rules for public comment state that anyone wanting to speak will need to fill out a public comment card and turn it in to the city clerk. Each speaker is limited to three minutes. A speaker can simply indicate support for a prior speaker's position instead of repeating a point. The planning and zoning commission OK'd the move on July 3. See Patch articles related to the potential QuikTrip relocation: The council will also vote on a request for a full liquor license for Tiffany's …

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Doug Miner

8:57 am on Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The meeting is tonight at 7:30 at Maplewood City Hall. Thanks for asking, Jon.   more ›

Kitchen Curious

Tiffany's Diner Offers Personable Experience, Great Food

These secrets from Tiffany's Diner reveal why the Maplewood restaurant has been so successful.

From the outside, it's difficult to tell that Tiffany's Diner is always packed with people. But the Maplewood diner was in business long before Manchester Road was jam-packed with shops and restaurants. "For a long time we were the only place around," owner Greg Winchel said. Winchel has kept the tradition going for about 17 years, when he took the business over. The diner is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week except Sundays from 2-9 p.m. Sometimes, it's so busy that the diner is standing room only. How can that be? Is it that the diner is the only restaurant left open on a Saturday night when the bars close and tipsy residents wander the streets looking for decent grub? That's a good possibility, but I've been to Courtesy Diner and …

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