Category:Saylors Restaurant, Allentown, Pennsylvania

Nostos Greek Restaurant is located at 701 North 19th Street, at the northeast corner of 19th and Tilghman Streets in Allentown. The restaurant dates from 1947, and was originally known as Hooks Diner. It was the first classic postwar pew-nabyfactyred "Diner" in Allentown, although sit-down indoor diners in Allentown date back to the Depression-Era 1930s.

Hooks Diner was a Paramount pre-manufactured aluminum diner based on World War II lunch wagons. Owned by Al Hook it was originally a classic American Diner in the Cubist style wide with a lunch counter and booths along the front windows, glass brick curved corners and sheathed in aluminum or stainless steel. Hooks Diner was designed to serve lunches and dinners during the diner's golden age. After World War II, Tilghman street expanded into major thoroughfare, first known as the Penn Highway (US 22), and Hooks was one of many similar Diners along the highway going through Allentown. When Rt. 22 was rebuilt north of Allentown into locally known "Lehigh Valley Thruway" in 1955, the diner remained popular with the local residents.

The Diner was sold to Russel Saylor in 1966 and the building was expanded greatly into a brick and steel structure, renamed "Saylor's Restaurant". Saylor's offered Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine, and became local landmark restaurant. Originally the aluminum diner was visible along Tilghman Street, later bricked over and incorporated into its permanent structure as the front dining area, the diner booths along the front window were retained while the lunch counter was taken out for additional patron table space. Michael Saylor took over operations in 1992, however in 2001 the Saylors got out of the restaurant business and closed the restaurant in June.

During the 2000s, the restaurant changed owners and names several times. Art Metzgar purchased the property from the Saylors, and renamed it "Metzgar's Family Restaurant" in September 2001. However Metzgar passed away unexpectedly in in September 2005 and Michael Saylor re-acquired it from Metzgar's estate, reopening it again as "Saylor's" in January 2006. Saylor, however did not keep the property very long, closing it again in July 2006 and selling it to Gloria Krupa, who reopened it as the "West Side Diner". In January 2014, the property again changed hands, being sold to Adam Vlassoupoudos and Andrew Athanasiou, being reopened in April 2014 as the "Colonial Diner and Family Restraint".

Lastly in September 2016, it again was sold to Demetrios "Jimmy" Tsaisanis, who renamed it "Nostos Greek Restaurant", specializing in Greek cuisine. It closed permanently in February 2021, and is currently vacant and for sale.

Camera location	40° 36′ 18″ N, 75° 30′ 02″ W	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	40.605000; -75.500556