What is the name of the diner that houses the time portal in 11/22/63?
Answer
Al's Diner
What is the name of the diner that houses the time portal in 11/22/63? Al's Diner is the answer.
The diner belongs to Al Templeton, Jake Epping's friend in Stephen King's 2011 time-travel novel. The portal is not a grand machine or a public attraction: it is a mysterious time slip located in the diner's pantry. When Jake enters it, he reaches Lisbon Falls as it existed on September 9, 1958.
Al calls the passage a rabbit hole and explains that it always leads to the same moment in the past. A traveler can spend years there, but returning brings them back to the present only two minutes after departure. That unusual reset mechanism allows Al and later Jake to make repeated attempts to alter history.
Al's Diner is therefore more than a setting. It is the doorway to Jake's mission to prevent President John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963. Readers sometimes confuse the diner with Derry, the Overlook, or other King locations, but those are separate places and do not house this portal.