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| - Let me start by saying I want to love and adore Luci's. But I can't. I love the atmosphere, the knick knacks, and the grocery section. I love the windows and open garage doors and patio area. I love their concept. But unfortunately, I haven't loved the food. I am vegetarian, not vegan, but still pretty strict and my guy is a meat eating, Nebraska man. The there are plenty of choices to satisfy everyone's needs. Vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, local...but they are hit or miss. On our first visit I ordered a Naughty nurse, and my bf ordered a non memorable sandwich. We both got potato salad for our sides. And an iced latte. My sandwich was good, I'd eat it again, and I enjoyed the potato salad. .it was light and dill-y, but slightly bland. My guy's sandwich was ok, but nothing he remembered as being yum. He didn't care for the potato salad at all. The coffee was good and pretty good sized..no complaints there. Today's visit..not so great. I ordered the fresh kale salad..which they should rename "the dentist special". The description says kale, tomatoes, almonds, parmesean, lightly dressed in lemon and olive oil. The plate looked gorgeous. .so pretty and bright and fresh..the first few bites were nice...and then it started...this salad must have had 2 cups of roughly chopped almonds in it. Every bite was mouthfuls of almonds..i started to dig around. .more almonds..after getting about a quarter of the way through the salad I had to stop eating. My tooth was zinging from a particularly hard almond and my jaw, was tired from chewing. I started to dig out the almonds and separating them. ..i had at least a cup and a half of almonds on my plate. My boyfriend tried the salad and said it tasted like "cardboard easter basket shreds". Let's move on to his meal..the "famous natural burger". It comes on a brioche bun, with tomatoes and a pickle spear on the side, topped with bacon, grilled onions and mushrooms and cheddar cheese. He ordered it medium rare with a side of fruit (For me). The burger was well done, but still juicy. But a strange thing happened. .it was dry. Like oddly, dry. He squeezed the meat and you could see juice, but it was like the bun soaked it up and absorbed it. It came without any sauce, so he added mustard, quite a bit, and it was still so dry. The fruit side was pineapple, cantaloupe and honey dew. It was all hacked up and odd, like a child prepared it. But it was fresh, and after the Easter grass nut salad and dry burger, it was refreshing. The atmosphere is great..like the perfect, busy coffee house cafe. There are students, business people, ladies who lunch, couples, kids, hipsters, hippies, and the occasional metal head couple (us). The staff is great. Always super friendly. They have a large selection of groceries and to-go food. And a wide variety of coffee and tea drinks. Plus all kinds of cool crap for sale..kitschy lip gloss, "vintage-y" kids toys, more stuff than I can even remember. I just wish the food was more reliable. Will we go again..probably. would I recommend it...to certain people, yes. If they can iron out the kinks, it would be a 5 star place..
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