I LOVE LOVE LOVE Chris' Deli :-) Their Thursday special of baked chicken with potatoes and carrots is simply delicious! It's like your grandma used to make... really, it's super yummy! It's so good in fact that they regularly run out, so you have to get there after 5pm but before 8pm or you'll miss out!
They also make the best greek salads, complete with super tasty, high quality feta cheese, tasty olives and spices with a very good house greek dressing. If you're more of a chef salad fan, they do a mean chef salad as well! The reuben is fantastic and like a reuben should be done on quality rye bread. They offer a marinated chicken breast plate with a salad that just can't be beat if you're trying to eat healthy. Of course they do all sorts of delicious deli sandwiches, made to order and served quickly. My personal favorite side dish is their potato salad... it's really really good :-) Oh yea- and they seem to have some sort of secret hookup with an amazing tomato guy- their tomatoes are delicious- they never go into the refrigerator either so they taste just like they came off the vine!
We moved away from the Independence area and we miss Chris' Deli. We now try to plan our trips to that side of town to include a stop at Chris' for dinner :-)