Go to the City Café when you have some time to kill and want a spectacular breakfast or lunch for a great price in an intimate setting: breakfast with your significant other, lunch date with a good friend or if you're headed out alone.
It's slow because it's a one-man operation, but slow in a café--especially in the European sense of the word (and this café would easily find a comfy home somewhere in Paris)--is also known as relaxing, refreshing and enjoyable.
They make the perfect bowl of soup. It was so perfect I had two bowls of soup. Yup, the biggest compliment I can pay a restaurant-going out of my way to order seconds. Everything is made from scratch by one person, something worth thinking about.
The breakfast menu is mainly omelets ($7) and the lunch stuff is burritos (also around $7).
I actually didn't even notice it was vegetarian until I heard one of the customers mention it, another big compliment coming from a pork-product-chomping gal like myself.
The owner alone deserves an entire review. He tossed out a Bartlett's worth of sound bites, but I think it's better to meet him face-to-face than try and explain him here (hell, I don't even know if I can explain him). His personality is a big part of the City Café experience.
I will say this: he knows a lot about a lot. And they're cash only.