About

Our History

Victoria’s Diner opened on January 3, 1949. Victoria’s was started by George Georgenes and it was a 52 seat stainless steel “Jerry O’Mahony” diner from New Jersey. It opened in the same location as the Diner remains today, 1024 Massachusetts Avenue. Victoria’s intersected/intersects four communities Dorchester, South Boston, Roxbury and the South End.

George’s sons Nick and Charlie took over in 1956 after returning from the Korean War. In 1965 Charlie and Nick decided to replace the diner with a new one. They purchased a “Swingle” Diner, which came in two sections with a vestibule. In the 1970’s they acquired a liquor license and in 1975 they added another dining-room, which was styled after an English pub and named for their father “Café George”.

Over the past six decades clientele at Victoria’s Diner (or the “Vic”) has included some of Boston’s most influential people (State Senate President William M. Bulger, legendary Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler. Ray Flynn were regulars) construction workers, employees of Newmarket Business District, police, firefighters, EMT’s contractors doing business at 1010 building and employees from the 1010 building, as well as residents from the surrounding neighborhoods, all frequented and continue to frequent the Diner. On December 31, 2004 Mayor Thomas Menino stopped in to have one last cup of coffee with the brothers.

In September 2011 Damian, Sheree (and family) purchased Victoria’s Diner.

Victoria’s Now

Victoria’s Diner is once again a “family run” business.

We are proud that our family has had this opportunity to become part of Victorias’ History! Our team has received many accolades since we our beginning here at Victorias, – when we were awarded “Boston’s Best Diner 2012” by Boston Magazine and others have come since then… but we also value the feedback we hear from our guests as they exit happy and planning to return

Our family would like to let our guests know that we value their business. There are several beliefs that we feel are essential to living up to your expectations:

• We believe exceptional CUSTOMER SERVICE is our MOST important job.

• We believe in treating others as we wish to be treated and this includes our staff, our guests, our restaurant, and our community.

• We also believe Victoria’s is THE BEST DINER in Boston. However, we understand that there is always room for improvement. We have begun and always continue to make improvements.and changes for the better!

We continue to work hard here at Victoria’s to improve for all our guests .

Victoria’s now has an ALL ALCOHOL license! In addition to our FULL Entertainment License! (make black)

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“We can accommodate all types of special events – celebrations, fundraisers or meetings for 70-90 guests at the Diner.  CATERING is also available for those same events – where our great food goes to your location!”

Our dining rooms were recently renovated.  We are able to accommodate all types of functions, meetings, and life events in our two beautiful private recently renovated rooms  -.  Victoria’s also offers CATERING for meetings, and functions and we can set up delivery too!.

We have added ONLINE take-out (as well as continuing our phone take-out).

We now do delivery through most of the major food-delivery services!

Our family is very happy and proud to be part of such a beloved, longtime Boston institution!

– Damian, Sheree & Family