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| - The short: Good food in a work-through-lunch pinch, but call your order ahead; prices standard but daily specials are a good value, especially for breakfast (all day!); clean and easy to find a seat and move tables together; I always defy my diet if there are consistently yummy chocolate chip and walnut cookies in their in-house-baked treat trays.
The long: On the northeast block of 44th St. and Thomas, the second building north of the Wells Fargo on the north end, first floor of the domed office building. Standard sandwich stop downstairs, not the kind of place I'd drive to, though you can pick in the office building's few visitors parking spots or in the parking structure.
There can be a wait during lunch when ordering at the counter and a longer wait while waiting for food, so I recommend calling your order in unless you just want to snag a prepared salad from their grab-n-go case. The staff is nice and as efficient as possible. The daily breakfast and lunch specials written on the whiteboard beside the door are always worth a quick glance, and I ordered the chicken pita with side special along with a giant chocolate chip and walnut cookie, all for eight bucks and change. The pita was good--chicken well cooked and seasoned, veggies fresh, pita soft, potato salad standard, cookie still a favorite. Some lunch breaks, I just order a breakfast burrito, which they toast in their panini iron--they'll toast the bread for any sandwich your order, too. Bonus for having some grab n go items like fruit, hard-boiled eggs, candy, gum, ice cream bars, coffee, and a drink case/fountain drinks. Another bonus for outdoor seating when the weather is nice--I sit on one of the building's benches and tease the giant koi fish with some crumbs.
I come here at least once a month, and the food is consistently good, if no frills--good enough to convince me I don't need to walk across the street for a sandwich when this is right next door to my building. They messed an order up once and were very communicative and apologetic and made fixing it a priority--I'd feel comfortable talking to them about any issues. I'm glad to have the place here for a dependable work lunch.
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