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| - I've never eaten at the Dirtbelly at the CORE shopping mall, but I imagine the one in Market Mall is pretty similar. We tried a tuna "baco", a chicken baco, and a broccoli side, and all were very fresh and tasty. It was a pleasant surprise getting food this nice in a shopping mall food court.
Having said that, the food wasn't perfect. The baco bread was surprisingly, unforgivably tough and chewy. Both bacos were kinda skimpy on the protein. And, at the risk of being too nitpicky, the $8.50 bacos were a weird tweener size -- one baco isn't enough for a meal, but two is too much. I suppose the idea is that you order a baco and a couple of sides, which at $15 would end up being pretty steep for a food court meal.
Last but not least, the little side we got was packaged in a non-recyclable plastic container. It kind of sucked to throw it away after using it for five minutes.
Still, this is the best place in Market Mall's food court -- it tastes like real food, not food court junk food. Definitely tasty enough for a return visit.
Edit: The bacos we ordered on our second visit were soft and fluffy like we expected them to be, so I chalk up the tough, chewy bacos we got on our first visit to startup problems (our first visit was on the first day they were open).
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