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| - I decided to meet my friend for lunch in Tempe as her work is right off of Mill and 3rd street. However she gives me a funky address that I type into my iphone (instead of saying, "hey Tasia, I work on 3rd street, just off of mill) and it leads me on a wild goose chase. Alas, I finally get to the correct destination, park, and walk to meet her in the 113 degree heat (but weather.com says it *feels* like 106, ha!). She asks me where I want to go and I say "somewhere new," which is easy for me because I haven't been on Mill since 2004. She is naming off food joints as we are walking South on Mill, I pull out my Yelp app and quickly type in "lunch tempe" and NCounter pops up. I give this suggestion, we stop walking, turn around and look at how far the walk now is (it really wasn't that far, it was just the heat) since I didn't think about this sooner. Just then, she sees a coworker and asks for recommendations and his first choice in NCounter. We look back at each other and decide to go for it.
This place is open Monday-Sunday 7am - 3pm and serves breakfast and brunch foods. The inside was very refreshing with the cold AC, open layout, and tons of tables and chairs, including one nice communal table. They also have a small patio with misters. My friend and I starred at the large menu and decided to split the Potobellini ($8) and the Peppered Italian Salad ($8.50). The Potobellini comes with portobellini mushrooms, roasted red peppers, artichoke, provolone cheese, spinach and a balsamic mayo that is piles on a delicious grilled ciabatta bread and you have a choice of a side salad or chips to accompany the sandwich. The Peppered Italian Salad comes with grilled chicken atop of sauteed cashews, red peppers, and garlic, over romaine lettuce with an Italian Parmesan dressing. The salad was tasty, but they went a little heavy on the dressing which is a total buzz kill for me. Next time I'll ask for the dressing on the side. For drinks they offer anything from alcoholic beverages (served at a smaller counter), coffee, tea, smoothies, and your traditional sodas ($2) and juices. I opted for iced tea ($2) and appreciate that they offer a freshly brewed Blackberry-Jasmine-Green Tea and a Passion Fruit iced tea.
The service was great. The employee taking our order offered up the Peppered Italian Salad suggestion and the employee delivering our food noticed we were splitting our items and brought us out a separate plate use. We also had our table top cleared pretty soon after we finished eating so we were able to enjoy our space and drinks while finishing out conversation before my friend had to go back to work.
We both agreed that the mild sunburn and heat stroke was worth it and that we both will be back!
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