Hey United folks,

I need your expertise on Newark Concourse C. Are there some decent table-service restaurants you can recommend at Concourse C? I'm not interested in the food court (Global Bazaar?) or that hush hush so-called "exclusive" restaurant (I don't know the name of it, but it just sounds like a wankish concept to me). I just want a relatively quiet restaurant to have breakfast at 7am and to hang out for next 3h before my United domestic flight. I'm looking more for an iHop or Denny's vibe. Something old fashioned and reassuring. Nothing too fancy. Is the Garden State Diner open at Concourse C? I've been watching several YouTube walk through videos of Concourse C, but none of them seem to show the Garden State Diner in their walk throughs. Appreciate your thoughts.

Moderators: I can't find a Flyertalk airport forum page so I've just landed the question here seeing is EWR is a United hub. Please accept my apologies and assign this post to the correct forum, if there is one.

Context: I'm coming off the SQ SIN/EWR service in J that morning, but I'm not Star Alliance Gold (not yet anyway). Star Alliance lounge access rules are a little more restrictive. Been a BA OWE for over a decade so I'm more familiar with JFK or DFW and never had to worry about finding a place to hang out before my AA domestic flights!