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| - Folks who work downtown, rejoice - there's a new option for a quick, delicious lunch that won't you leave you broke or gross-feeling.
For those who care, Mid City Kitchen was started in November by chef Michael DeMaria, whose other restaurants - like Heirloom - are out of my price range. I was excited to eat at a lunch counter restaurant with lunch counter prices where the food was cooked up in the imagination of someone who normally catered to a different crowd.
Yes, this is a lunch counter. There is a pizza station, a sandwich (hot or cold) station, and a fry station, plus soups and a salad bar. The salad bar had a wide range of choices - not your usual sad mushrooms and old lettuce.
I can only vouch for the pizza and the french fries - both expertly executed and delicious. Everything else looked really tasty, though.
Word of advice - don't go for the half pizza, unless you plan on getting a side. The pizzas are definitely personal-sized, so half a pizza will leave you hungry.
Also, the place is tucked away in an office complex, in the smallest building, attached to the parking garage. Parking is all on-the-street metered or in the garage, so it's really more of a place that's handy if you work in the area than one that's worth driving across town for.
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