Taste This: Spanish omelet topped with homemade spaghetti sauce and breakfast potatoes ($14.99 as of July 28, 2025) at Coventry Diner, located at 3333 Manchester Rd., Suite 17 in Coventry Township.
Creator: Lou Corpas, owner
Eye test: A generously portioned, yoke-colored omelet lies underneath a red sauce filled with chunks of crushed tomatoes. If that’s not enough, homefries and toast are included.
What makes this item special: Basil, oregano, garlic — it’s all in the sauce. Corpas uses a homemade spaghetti sauce from the back of the house to give this veggie omelet added spice.
Process: For the omelet, everything, including the egg and vegetables, is cooked on the grill at 325 degrees. The vegetables include onions, tomatoes, peppers and mushrooms. While they sauté, Corpas cracks an egg on the grill and scrambles it for a few minutes.
“It just flows out,” Corpas said. “Then before the omelet gets dried out, I put all the ingredients inside. Then I lay cheese on top. Then I just let it sit until it’s ready to pull off.”
Once he takes it off the grill, Corpas pours the sauce over the finished omelet.
To make the spaghetti sauce, ingredients include peppers, celery, spices, two cans of crushed tomatoes and two cans of tomato sauce. The ingredients meet on the grill, saturated again at 325 degrees, then at a simmer.
Creator’s backstory: Corpas is no stranger to owning restaurants. He’s been in the business for 55 years. It’s in his blood. His grandparents and uncles were restaurant owners. At age 12, Corpas started bussing tables and washing dishes at his grandparents’ establishment, Copper Kettle Restaurant, located in the Cleveland suburb of Rocky River. In his early 20s, Corpas moved to Colorado to partner with his uncle to run two chain locations of Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips.
“I kinda missed the lake because I like the lake,” Corpas said. “My parents were here, my family was here, and I ended up moving back home.”
Around 1984, Corpas opened the Richfield Family Restaurant on Route 21. A few years later, he opened Ellet Family Restaurant with his brothers.
“My brothers and I joined forces on that for a little bit,” Corpas said. “We were all single, started separating, getting married, so that changed things around a little bit.”
In the early 2000s, Corpas opened Medina Family Restaurant and ran it for 15 years. During the last four years of operation, he changed the restaurant to a bar and grill called Lou’s Landing.
Medina wasn’t Corpas’ last stop, though. After six months, he came out of retirement to take over a space formerly housing a Chinese restaurant.
“This is my last hurrah,” he promised.
Corpas is still hands on, handling tasks from training kitchen staff to refilling patrons’ water and coffee.
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About the company: Corpas opened Coventry Diner in 2007. He incorporated many of the menu items from his previous diners, although some homestyle meals started here — such as the Spanish omelet. Bringing his love of water to work, nautical-themed decor is wrapped around the entrance and the walls of this 75-seater diner.
How to buy: Coventry Diner is open Saturdays to Tuesdays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.