According to most restaurant critics, the perfect diner meal is served on a plate, which rests on a table with legs. Try some authentic diner dining the way it was meant to be served with today's Groupon: for $6, you get $12 worth of breakfast, burgers, and more at d’egg diner downtown or its Hampton Boulevard location, d’egg west.

Recently praised for having mom-worthy meatloaf, d’egg diner offers Virginians a menu full of day-long breakfasts, crowd-pleasing burgers, and single hungry-human-approved sandwiches; d’egg west’s menu serves up a similarly smorgas-y selection. The d’eggwich ($4.99 d’egg diner/$5.29 d’egg west) places your choice of breakfast meat, a fried egg, and a fried parmesan tomato in the middle of an onion roll, and the Greek omelette ($6.79 d’egg diner/$6.99 d’egg west) delivers three eggs, spinach, and feta to your tongue buddies. Lunch items for the breakfast-weary include the swiss-on-rye tuna melt, which, in accordance with vegetable zoning ordinance, comes with a tomato at d’egg west ($6.50 d’egg diner/$6.99 d’egg west). The d’egg burger ($6.99 d’egg diner/$7.99 d'egg west) reunites beef and fried eggs 20 years after their nasty ketchup custody battle, with bacon and one fried egg on a cheese-covered patty at d’egg, and two patties, an egg any style, grilled onions, bacon, and mayo at d’egg west.

Both d’egg diner and d’egg west offer diners great-tasting American fare, and both have warm, welcoming interiors and a friendly staff, making choosing between the two as hard as choosing the right pair of socks in the morning. Use today’s Groupon for early a.m. feasts or roundtable breakfasts stretching long into the late afternoon.

Reviews

HamptonRoads.com recommends d'egg diner and its smaller, more upscale second location d'egg west; it also awarded d'egg the honor of Meatloaf Mama Would be Proud to Cook. Eighty-eight percent of more than 200 Urbanspooners like d'egg diner, which has more than 1000 fans on Facebook; d'egg west has more than 500 fans. Yelpers give d'egg diner an average of 3.5 stars.

• It has become the favorite place for my wife, Ellen, and I to meet for lunch, and not just because of the food. Ellen finds the energy and buzz of d'Egg infectious. – Harry Minium, HamptonRoads.com, d'egg diner
• D'egg West is our family's new favorite spot. Breakfast is the specialty, obviously, and each dish we try is better than the last. The stuffed French Toast is KILLER. – M.J., Urbanspoon, d'egg west