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| - A central location if you're headed to or coming from an Indians game or the Theater. This place looks and feels super upscale and like you'd be paying for an overpriced meal but they're very affordable; just a classy environment. Staff is friendly, though I have had both good and bad experiences (but everyone has an off day, bad experiences are very infrequent...maybe 1 in 20 times I've gone)
**Note: I've never been there for dinner. Lunch only.
They have some wonderful lunch specials that allows me to get an exquisite meal for under 10 dollars.
The french onion soup is to die for. Think of a thick savory broth steaming as it comes out to you with house made croutons (I think the croutons are just super toasted house made bread). You'll be served a roll fresh from their ovens, still hot enough to melt the REAL BUTTER you get on a side plate (none of that packaged fake crap). A light dish of salt is also provided and they use those super long ground pepper things if you want pepper added. Damn, just thinking about it is making me salivate. Going to have to go back next week to get more of that.
The main dish was a sausage sandwich (uploaded an image of it) with a side of the Beef Stroganoff sauce and a side of chips. Now let's talk about each component here:
Chips are made in house and are very good, crisp, salted just enough, and are sometimes warm when I get them (warm chips are the best!)
The sausage is seasoned well for meat lovers, not hot, but it's got a seasoning that has a little kick. The sauteed peppers they put over it enhance and support the flavor of the sausage. This sandwich is HUGE so don't expect to eat it all in one sitting. Talk half with you to go or share. My only complaint is that the house made bread is delicious but there's a bit much of it so if you don't take off some of the bread some people might find it too doughy.
One thing I'd recommend (though it costs a little extra...less than a dollar) is to get a side of their Beef Stroganoff sauce. It's an excellent additive flavor to the sausage if you pour some of it onto the sandwich and is something you can dip that extra bread in. Chips are good dipped in it too (like, REALLY good). You might want to ask to try some first, I know a few people who found the sauce too salty to just pour on the sandwich.
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