The 24 hour restaurant is more common now. We use to just have a couple of chain restaurants that would serve customers 24 hours a day and now there are several which do this. You may even be lucky enough to have a private or one-of-a-kind restaurants in your hometown that serves up breakfast and dinner 24 hours a day.

There is just something magical about a food place that stays open after midnight. A lot of restaurants today are trending to the “open late” campaign, in which they will stay open longer than usual. This usually occurs in the summer months and some places may only offer a drive-thru service for their open late hours.

I’m a night owl, so I have eaten a lot of my meals after midnight. I have also had my share of 3rd shift jobs, so trying to find a hot lunch at these hours have always been a challenge. I love the night and sleeping through it seems like a waste. I hate to sleep through all of the daylight hours too, so the less sleep the better. Even though sleep is one of my favorite things to do. Makes a lot of sense, huh?

I even like watching the big Hollywood movies that will take place all night long or end up in a late night diner. I recently saw a movie called Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and this is a good example of an all night movie. The Dazed and Confused movie is also another good example and they recreated this late night fun in a 2nd movie they did on top of this one.

The hard part can be finding friends to share these late night hours with you. I know for teens and people in their early twenties, this might not be too challenging. As you get into your 30′s, you will find there are less and less friends you can go out and have an all-nighter with. I still have 1 or 2 people I can count on for the 2 to 3 a.m. hours of the night. If I want to see the sun rise the next morning, I will probably be alone for that to happen now. It’s just one of the parts of growing up and how people get married, have families, and then have to wake up early for a job the next day. I have not did the marriage or family part yet, but I have had a little taste of the 9 to 5 job, where you have to be in bed at 10 or 11 p.m. each night. It’s a little depressing to call it a night at those hours and I will stay up past 2 a.m. on most nights.

A night on the town that takes all night to do, is still a winning formula in my book. The 24 hour restaurants are one of the fun things to do in these hours, when most people are dreaming away in their beds. If you can find the bowling alley or pool hall that stays open 24 hours a day, then you really have some all night fun you can get into.