Cafe on Park
Completed 1993

Long a favorite with the cash-strapped slacker crowd, Cafe On Park gives you a real bang for your buck: Large portions, eclectic combinations and an industrial chic setting with high ceilings and metal beams overhead.

If you visit, be sure to get in early on the always-packed weekends, when the restaurant surges with stomach-growling Gen X'ers jonesing to feed their hangovers with good food and a great atmosphere. That's when their plate-sized pancakes stuffed with Captain Crunch cereal and blackberries, served at the super-d-lux concrete bar built by Public, really hit the spot.