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| - As fun as the Strip is for out-of-towners, it's incredibly frustrating for locals: a traffic nightmare of epic proportions, and assuming you can actually get somewhere and park, you still have to negotiate swarms of tourists everywhere you turn. Most of the time, it's just not worth it if all you want is a quick, no-fuss meal in a quiet spot. That's where Ichabod's comes in.
Located in a kind of blah strip mall, Ichabod's doesn't look like much from the outside. Actually, it doesn't look like much from the inside, either - it's quite dark, with strips of Xmas lights running around the walls, and green plants spilling out of boxes atop the dividers between booths (I guess they must be fake, since sunlight rarely penetrates Ichabod's). It's usually slow, and the servers don't seem all that enthusiastic, and are sometimes hard to find.
The food makes up for the depressing ambience, though. The Bloody Marys are excellent, and I'm told that their soups are great as well. The menu is pretty casual, diner-type stuff - lots of sandwiches and salads. Their wraps are the specialty, and definitely worth trying, especially the chicken caesar wrap and the Neptune wrap. Packed with meats and veggies wrapped inside spinach- or tomato-flavored wraps, they're huge and tasty. There's some kind of salad bar there, too, but I've always been afraid of its janky appearance (though that's kind of an Ichabod's theme).
This is by no means a hip or trendy place, and if you see other diners at all, they'll be older couples and families. But if you're tired of the touristy throngs and just want to go someplace where you can walk right in and be seated (and not pay $12 for a burger), turn to the dark side and try Ichabod's.
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