Janet Wilson Review - Wide Variety At City Cafe #2

[CMF Newsman]

City Café Diner (#2) is located at 7641 Lee Highway. We’ve eaten breakfast there quite a few times recently. The menu is very large and offers a wide variety of foods. There is something for everyone.

Breakfast is served twenty-four hours a day, as is everything on the menu. The breakfast menu consists of the usual fare of eggs, bacon, sausage, ham, biscuits, grits and gravy but also such items as a Gyro Omelette ($5.95), Italian Omelette ($6.75), and a Fiesta Burrito ($6.95). They offer one of the largest varieties of omelettes I’ve ever seen on any menu.

Most recently Wayne ordered the Fiesta Burrito which is made with two scrambled eggs, homemade mashed potatoes, sausage, onions and jalapeno peppers in a flour tortilla, topped with cheese, salsa and sour cream, served with home cooked fries or grits. He found it to be quite good, but also rather large. We brought part of it home.

I ordered one egg with bacon, grits and toast ($3.95). The egg was prepared sunny-side up, perfectly cooked. I had to quite ordering scrambled eggs ANYWHERE because no one knows what soft scrambled means.

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[daworm]

While I'm sure Caterer doesn't care for it, I've eaten at this location more than the downtown one, and I like them. Nothing is super good, but it isn't bad either. Consider it as good as you could expect from food service ingredients. You will not complain about quantity of anything, that's for sure.

[caterer]

he he he

I have never liked City Cafe. The portions are huge I will give them that, but everytime I go I end up asking myself "now, why did we come here again?"

[daworm]

You have personal standards that are quite a bit higher than most, I fear. That's not a bad thing, by any means. Not a bad thing at all.

[caterer]

Would it make me more human if I told you I ate a hot dog for lunch?
Bison steaks...just name the day.

By the way diet coke with lime sucks. I just found that out. its missing something, I know...vodka.

[cdojanet]

Their breakfasts aren't bad at all.

[TNBear]

I figured out what makes me nervous about this place, the sign is still shaped like a Denny's sign.

[jafomac]

Yea the Denny's Sign. That is the place I dumped my exwife in 2000. I went back and sat in the same place when it was the City Cafe diner , before it closed and opened again. the food is good but I have bad Karma there.

[stray]

jafomac said:

Yea the Denny's Sign. That is the place I dumped my exwife in 2000. I went back and sat in the same place when it was the City Cafe diner , before it closed and opened again. the food is good but I have bad Karma there.

Reminds me of a rare mid-day drinking event I had at Magoos back in the day...and a certain tirade about their 'tavern battered cod' that I executed with perfection....

[Longshot! [ Saint ]]

The old Denny's; as a fledgling cop, I learned more about The Job in there than I did in a four month academy. Every report I've ever written and every investigation I've conducted had its nexus there via stunning supervisor experiences. The first man I -almost- shot was across the street from there. That place taught me that bosses could care about more than numbers, and the value of breaking bread with one another is beyond words.

The last time I ate a meal there was with Donald Bond, and I haven't been back...but I have not let the lessons go.

And as for the quality of a City Cafe'? I am a regular downtown after 0300, and while I agree with Caterer--I also have no basis of comparison when it comes to ordering a steak-tip salad or triple-decker cheeseburger with onion rings at 4:00am, so I think their food is just FINE.

[ssmynkint]

11/11/09 at 04:17 PM Reply with quote #1

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This is a diner on steroids. Except for chrome, formica, glass and neon, there's no ambiance. Service is friendly, but you need to make sure they get the order right and that they serve what you ordered. With 365 dishes on the menu (I take their word for it; I haven't counted) it obvious that a lot of dishes are pre-made or commercially made and reheated. But it's a diner, not fine dining. Everything is served in massive proportions. Omletes are huge and come with equally large amount of home fries, the Greek selections are perfectly acceptable, as are the "Italian" and "Mexican," although the first is the only near authentic one. As you would imagine, seafood left home a long time ago, but everything is properly prepared and of good quality. Beer and some wine is served. Open 24/7 and with two locations, these are all-hour gems, especially if you're REALLY hungry.

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[Red]

Note we will be having our next Notta Holiday Lunch there.
Good location as it's got room, and lots of options for our various needs and wants in this crowd.