Thursday, June 01, 2006

Vegetarian Lunch in America 11: Summer Squash Curry & Japanese Eggplant

Summer Squash Curry & Japanese Eggplant Cauliflower Curry(Click for bigger pic)

Today's vegetarian lunch: Summer squash curry, Japanese eggplant and cauliflower curry, with rice and flat-bread, and a hot sauce on the side, from the Plaza View Cafe, the cafeteria in my office building. Both the curries tasted extremely good. I wish they would make this more often. I should tell them.

I am quite surprised to realize that my office cafeteria food is appearing in this vegetarian lunch in America series for the first time only today! The Plaza View Cafe is one of the best lunch-time options in Downtown Phoenix, on week days. Not even everyone who works downtown knows about this place. The lack of popularity in no way reflects the great quality. The excellent food choices and great dining area are better than many downtown restaurants. And you won't even notice or mind the lack of restaurant-like full service when you consider the low prices (with no tips) and the staff, who are always nice, cheerful and helpful. You can have a really good meal for around $6 or for lesser. Quite often, for lesser. They offer a variety of choices for lunch: soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps, pizza, a whole array of sides and the daily specials, of course. They also serve breakfast, which changes daily! It really works great for people who eat meat. Even picky vegetarians like me can usually find something on their regular menu, or have the very nice staff customize something. Their daily specials, like my lunch today, have vegetarian options about 2-3 times a week.

Cost: $3.89 (includes tax and office discount), about 171.16 Indian Rupees.

Vegetarian alert: None for today!

Background: Vegetarian Lunch in America.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Please do not comment as Anonymous. Please use a name when commenting... even a false one will do! :-) You don't have to register to use a name.