After closing due to flooding in 2024, Miss Lyndonville Diner has sold to new owners, who hope to reopen the much-missed landmark in April. As first reported by the North Star Monthly, locals Tori and Justin Deos bought the restaurant and its property for $600,000 from Janet Gray Burnor, Miss Lyndonville’s owner for just shy of half a century.
Known for its North Country Special burger and 37 breakfast combos, the 99-seat diner sustained serious damage when it took on more than a foot of water in July 2024. At the time, Burnor, then 72, told Seven Days that she planned to rebuild and seek a buyer for the business rather than reopen. She acknowledged that the closure felt “like a death in the community,” but she was ready to retire.
Tori, 33, and her husband Justin, 32, from Sutton and Lyndonville, respectively, are among the many locals who grew up eating at the diner, Tori said. She described herself as having worked in area restaurants for a decade, cooking, serving, bartending and managing. The Deoses talked it over, Tori said, and decided the diner “would be a good fit for our family,” which includes James, 8, and Adrianne, 4.
The couple plan to reopen with the diner’s time-tested menu. Tori and her husband don’t have favorites: “We like all of it,” she said.
Their son does, however. James remembers eating at Miss Lyndonville before it closed, his mom said, and is especially excited to order pancakes topped with strawberries and whipped cream.
The original print version of this article was headlined “Miss Lyndonville Diner to Reopen With New Owners”
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