There is a red-roofed diner on Route 130 in Westville with a backstory that sounds less like restaurant history and more like the setup to a Jersey tall tale. More than a decade ago, a stolen bulldozer actually crashed into the building.
The diner came back anyway. Today, Piston Diner is still sitting at 821 Crown Point Road, serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week.
The draw is not complicated: big diner plates, a menu that wanders happily from pancakes to burgers to chicken parm, and the kind of unfussy dining room where nobody cares whether you dressed for dinner…