Reporting on Eateries in Champaign-Urbana of Note, more or less at random

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Crane Alley

Crane Alley has gotten on my bad side, as of late. Their food is good, maybe a little pricey. I've tried decently hard to get a mythological feel for it, and it just isn't happening. It's a wonderful place to eat outside in Crane Alley itself, on a warm day, or huddling inside, on a cold day. I've taken my coworkers there for lunch several times, and it's always too slow for coders anxious to get back hacking. Dinner seems fast enough. They have great beet chips with goat cheese, but they've come out burnt (and by the time you figure out most the plate is burnt, you've eaten a third of them, so you can't send it back, etc...). They've got a solid fish sandwich. Pretty much everything is good. The atmosphere is deep and rich. I've heard the beer menu is pretty deep. Meh.

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