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| - I stopped in for some cookies when I was looking for something to do in Champaign on a monday night. I had actually seen this place while eating lunch at Fat Sandwich (2 doors down) and looked it up on Yelp. I was slightly discouraged with the negative reviews, but if you look closely, most of the complaints and low ratings are from people who were dissapointed with the delivery aspect. I didn't get delivery, I went in to the retail store. Anyway, it was after 9PM and nothing else in the Dessert category was open.
The store is quite small; there's just enough room for about 5 people to stand and place orders
There is a weird drop off in the floor, right inside the door. There is a sign on the door saying "WATCH YOUR STEP". The guy behind the counter warned the girls who ordered ahead of me to be careful on the way out. He offered me the same advice. I asked if a lot of people fall down there. He said "about 90%"!
One of the girls on line ahead of me ordered the raw cookie dough. The guy behind the counter warned her that he was not really supposed to sell it, and that raw dough could make her sick. I guess that's true, I just thought it was a weird conversation...
I got my cookies to go. I would have gotten milk, but I could see that the only had two bottles in the fridge, and both were chocolate milk. So I stopped at a gas station on the way home for some 2%.
I got one chocolate chip (an easy way to guage a cookie place is by their CCC's) and one snickerdoodle. They were $1 each (no tax).
The CCC was good.. maybe even a little better than good, but I surprised myself by enjoying the snickerdoodle more! The CCC was a little greasy, but certianly very good.
Parking in this area can be difficult (as in most of Champaign).
Anyway, I would go to Insomnia Cookies again. It's a little slap-dash, but really nothing significantly wrong here as the other reviews might suggest.
I have a couple of pictures if anyone's interested...
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