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Originally Posted by Jimby
I had lunch at Cravings today which is kind of an odd place in a strange location, but very popular.
The deal with Cravings is you get a swipe card, order food from different stations, and then pay what is on the card on the way out. I believe Sunterra Marche in Transcanada has a similar set-up.
I wanted to start with a salad, but the workers at the salad station were determined to ignore me. I felt like an idiot standing there with my card hoping for service. No one acknowledged my presence or said they would be right with me. It seemed they weren't really doing anything but avoiding me/us.
Other people came and waited and left and so we left and went to the grill station. It seemed we were invisible for a few minutes there too but finally a human took our order.
We shared calamari, and vegetable gyozas to start.
The calamari was good. I love it when it is good and hate it when it is rubber so I'm always leery of ordering it.
The gyoza were very good, they looked like they were handmade dumplings.
We both had the fish tacos which were ok, but nothing compared to fish tacos I have had in Orange County.
The 2 tacos came with a side of really good caesar salad from those hardworking salad girls.
They have a coffee station where they serve Starbucks, and the desserts looked really tempting but we didn't try any of them.
The nightly dinner specials sound good and if I lived near there I would do take-out on a regular basis.
I'm craving one of their lobster roll sandwiches now...
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I go there from time to time for lunch, and usually have either the Lobster Roll or the Cobb Salad. I think there is some sort of Soup Nazi routine when it comes to the salad station, if you don't enter through the "corral" they tend to ignore you for inexplicable reasons. Anyway, the food there is usually not bad, but, sadly, they seem to carry the sandwich stock overnight sometimes and I've had the Lobster Roll on a dried out bun a couple of times.
It's not the only odd restaurant in an odd place in that neighbourhood. There is a "Bar and Grill" in the fitness club around the corner from Cravings. Maybe you're thinking they're serving salads and protein smoothies? Nope, it's pub food and cheap beer. I can't decide whether it's the most ill thought out concept ever or is just pure, diabolical genius:
National Sport Development Bar & Grill.