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| - I think this place has the best food and atmosphere of anywhere to eat within easy walking distance of CMU campus. I have lunch here at least once or twice a week and am hardly ever disappointed.
My favorite thing to order (and, in my opinion, the best bang for your buck) is their quiche of the day. With that order, you get a generous slice of quiche, your choice of a soup or salad side, and -- at least if you pick a soup side -- it all comes with a refreshing vinegar-based coleslaw (no mayo). Their quiches are always excellent! Perfect crust, excellent filling texture, and well chosen mix-ins. They are also almost always vegetarian.
All of their soups that I have tried have been great! I especially like the butternut squash soup and tomato fennel, but you really can't go wrong with whatever one strikes your fancy. I've tried many of their daily soup specials and enjoyed them all. Soups come with a yummy flatbread triangle for dipping.
Nice salads too. My favorite is the detox salad! It's absolutely loaded with super nutritious things, but the ingredients come together well in a way that makes the salad much tastier than it sounds from the list of what's in it! But...beware, if you order the detox salad as a side to the quiche (and I assume to other mix-and-match options, too), they charge extra. They didn't tell me this once until after I was rung up and my credit card already swiped, so I was kind of annoyed to have paid $2 extra without being warned.
The environment is very pretty -- go figure, it's in the botanical gardens building. There is outdoor seating that has a gorgeous view when it's warm enough to sit outside, but the inside feels fresh and clean as well. It's a nice place to take guests out for lunch if you are limited to the Oakland area.
There is a big chalkboard menu that you can check out when you enter, then you order your food at the checkout counter, they give you a number, and you seat yourself. When your food is ready, they bring it to you. There is no room for tipping; I guess service is complimentary. You bus your own food at the end, and they have lots of different bins to maximize environmental friendliness of the waste process.
Sometimes this place can get extremely crowded from 12-1:30 with lunchers. I have been on occasions where there were no seats available at all! Also, it is baby-friendly, so sometimes the space can get cluttered with strollers and toddlers crying, etc.
All in all, I think this place has solid food and am glad to have a place like it in Oakland!
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