my sweetheart would be perfectly content eating his turkey sandwich, carrots, apple and yogurt every day for lunch. i would rather pull every hair out of my head. variety is the spice of life, am i right?
as you know, i am an east dallas girl. it's unlikely that i will drive the boys across town for lunch during the week (unless we have a date with daddy). close to home, our lunch options are limited. and i'll be damned if we eat chick-fil-a every day of our lives. our choices are (for now) limited to schlotzsky's, jake's burgers, sonic and subway. while there is nothing wrong with these fine establishments, i get bored easily.
enter benny's grill, garland rd.'s newest resident. it is housed in an old arby's, so don't expect the classiest joint. but outside of our neighborhood darling, goodfriend, this is the only place in the hood you can find a feta-stuffed lamb burger or a balsamic chicken flatbread, and the like. pictured below is my mediterranean panini, complete with gouda, feta, kalmata olives, roasted red peppers, and spinach. yuuuuuum. at goodfriend, this would run you twelve bucks, not to mention the couple of craft beers you need to wash it all down. at benny's, i got this and fries and a drink for less than seven bucks. damn straight.
oh, and it's run by members of the lover's pizza family. just doing our part to keep it local, y'all.
i work on the other side of town, where the lunch options are more diverse. there are a million little joints i could rave about, but one of our favorites is cosmic cafe, an all vegetarian restaurant.
work can be nuts, but here lunch is zen. water is served in metal cups, so it's icy, icy cold. the food is delicious. the lentil soup is spicy. the atmosphere is relaxing. it smells like hippies (clean ones). and it makes you want to do yoga. actually, i think there is a yoga studio on the premesis. no joke.
pictured below: lentil soup, garden salad and naan.
ohmmmmmmmm.
what are some of your favorite lunch places? i am always up for trying something new.
Glad to know about Benny's Grill...Always drive by it but now I will try it. We like Flaming Burger over behind the Comerica bank on Garland. And when we want a good caldo de pollo o carne we go to Mexico Lindo up the road from us:)
ReplyDeletejust saw a new place right past walgreen's by the zumba studio...white rock abbey, i think...know anything about it?
ReplyDeletei saw that too! i read something about it that said it has pub food and craft beers. sounds a little to similar to goodfriend, but we shall see :)
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