I ate at Maine’s oldest diner, located inside a 1920s railcar. It was worth the hourlong wait for a seat.

The pickle slices looked thin and crispy, while the thick cheddar cheese was perfectly melted on the burger. A hearty dollop of secret sauce, which looked slightly like Thousand Island, peeked out from beneath the fluffy sesame-seed bun.

You can order as many flapjacks as you like, though they often sell out after the breakfast rush. We just ordered one, and it cost $6, though a stack of three costs $15, excluding tax.

Palace Diner’s fried chicken sandwich, which includes cabbage slaw, jalapenos, and mayonnaise on a sesame-seed bun and an iceberg wedge salad, costs $20, excluding tax.

The story goes that when the diner would hold fried chicken dinners, which it reportedly still occasionally does, they would use the chicken breasts left over to make fried chicken sandwiches.

The sandwiches were so popular, that they eventually ended up on the menu — though there’s no guarantee the diner won’t sell out of it before you sit down.

While I had to make a separate trip just to try the chicken sandwich, that didn’t tarnish my overall experience at Palace Diner. From the cheeseburger to the buttermilk flapjacks, I thought every menu item I tried was worth the journey from Connecticut.

However, my one warning to potential diners is to get there early, at least an hour before you really want to eat. The wait times can be long, and you certainly don’t want to miss out on trying any of the diner’s most famous menu items.