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| - I was in the area and thought I might try the diner for a healthy lunch.
The choices were quite limited and a bit trendy-most customers seemed to be going more for your standard sandwich and shoe string fries. So I decided to be different. Incredibly hungry and without great thought, I ordered a dish that was a Morrocan Chick Pea vegan dish that was supposed to contain an array of vegetables, but instead, ended up as mostly a hot chick pea stew-not anything as described on the menu and had mostly red and white chick peas that could have come right out of a tin. The serving was tasty but quite a small portion for 20.00-it would have served as a light lunch to hold over for a more substantial meal. The Pita was heated, and incredibly tough to chew.
The diner atmosphere is lovely with its quaint intimate space, and turn of the century details like the original ceiling. But the tables are not for the large size by any means. Duck your head when you descend to the basement to use the bathroom.
Anyhow, I was finished in about 5 minutes flat, and then realized that chick peas tend to cause gas and bloating for me, and this being a very small but crowded place, I rushed to pay and then ran out for fear they'd have to call a fire truck on me.
I'm not sure what the award winning dishes were that I should have picked-but the standard fries and sandwich did look better.
The waitresses were quite lovely and helpful, but I found the food highly overrated.for what it was. Not terrible, just not great.
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