Bunny thought we should try the Cardinal Drive-In (sadly, no website), a traditional drive-in burger joint just a few blocks north of The Sunset Motel [1]. We arrived to a nearly empty lot (amazing [2], but we did arrive significantly before noon so maybe that helped).
Now, you would think that being at a drive-in, we would be eating in the car, but that would be too cliché—instead we ate in the dining room.
[And here I thought the Red Phone was reserved for Presidents and Batman, not for average Joes to order food from the booth.] [3]
But to enmesh you in the whole drive-in theme, each booth had a phone where you could place your orders. The clerk could barely hear us through the device [4] though, and instead walked over to our booth to take our order.
The food was quite good but I was rather surprised that in this day and age, there still existed a business that refused to accept plastic money. How authentically traditional (not to mention archaic but I digress).
But other than that, eating in and ordering face-to-face, our experience at the Cardinal Drive-In was exactly like eating at a drive-in burger joint.
[1] http://thesunsetmotel.com/
[3] /boston/2015/07/03/phone-in.jpg
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