Downtown Lunch Spots

[secol]

So I like going to a new place for lunch everyday, I know there is already a thread on food trucks and alot of the restaurants are on urbanspoon/yelp, but what about food courts, +15 eateries or fast food (not chains like McDs/Subways, etc) joints?

[csnarpy]

I don't work downtown but Chachi's Sandwich Bar is really becoming one of my favorite spots.

There's 4 of them downtown: Shell Center, Fifth Ave Place, TD Square & Centrium Place

http://www.chachis.ca/

[ranchlandsselling]

Marcellos is always good.
New Green Been opening in Calgary House early July (beside Local 522).
I always enjoy a Sunterra Salad
I always look at the Sunterra Pizza's. They look delicious but I'm always worried I'll still be hungry so I don't get one.
I do like ChaChi's
Submission in Watermark Tower
I need to wander through Centennial Place, I think they might have something interesting.

[red sky]

I find the Sunterra pizza's quite filling suprisingly. They are pretty tasty.

[tvp2003]

Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling

Marcellos is always good.
New Green Been opening in Calgary House early July (beside Local 522).
I always enjoy a Sunterra Salad
I always look at the Sunterra Pizza's. They look delicious but I'm always worried I'll still be hungry so I don't get one.
I do like ChaChi's
Submission in Watermark Tower
I need to wander through Centennial Place, I think they might have something interesting.

Food court is nice, food options are:

Verona Pizza
Subway
Crepe Delicious
Koryo
A&W
Jimmy the Greek
Tim's
Taco Time
Umi Sushi Express
Jugo Juice

[The Goon]

I like Oriental Phoenix (Vietnamese) in Gulf Canada Square. They also have the Phoenix Express in Altius Centre (NW corner of 4th and 4th).

[OldDutch]

Originally Posted by csnarpy

I don't work downtown but Chachi's Sandwich Bar is really becoming one of my favorite spots.

There's 4 of them downtown: Shell Center, Fifth Ave Place, TD Square & Centrium Place

http://www.chachis.ca/

Take the time to do Sub Mission's Italian Mission (Watermark tower). You won't eat Chachi, Quizno, or Subway again.

[ranchlandsselling]

Originally Posted by fotze

Green bean represents all that is wrong with the world. Vile crap is what they serve. You can taste the job hate in every stale sandwich they mass produce.

Good to know. It's a sandwich shop. I like a good sandwich so was hoping it'd be okay.

Where have you sampled them prior??

[csnarpy]

Originally Posted by OldDutch

Take the time to do Sub Mission's Italian Mission (Watermark tower). You won't eat Chachi, Quizno, or Subway again.

Been there a few times but prefer Chachi's way more. I just can't get enough of the New York...


and there is no comparison whatsoever to Chachi's vs Subway/Quizno's

[ranchlandsselling]

Originally Posted by tvp2003

Food court is nice, food options are:

Verona Pizza
Subway
Crepe Delicious
Koryo
A&W
Jimmy the Greek
Tim's
Taco Time
Umi Sushi Express
Jugo Juice

Wandered over - didn't really like.

Pizza seemed expensive per slice, may have been filling for two slices, but a lot of crust.

Crepes? It's lunch time

Koryo - nope

A&W - nope

Jimmy the Greek - debatable, but there was a line up

Tim's - only when desperate

Taco time - nope

Umi Sushi - maybe next time, was busy

Jugo Juice - want lunch, not a cold snack

Leaves subway... Oh well, I am rarely disappointed with subway. More bored... But I'd rather be safe than sorry.

[Huntingwhale]

Originally Posted by The Goon

I like Oriental Phoenix (Vietnamese) in Gulf Canada Square. They also have the Phoenix Express in Altius Centre (NW corner of 4th and 4th).

I would not recommend that place. I've been there 3 times and every time the food was pretty gross. One time I got Pho and the ''broth'' was basically blood and tasted like it. I'll never go back. The one by the Calgary Tower though is delicious.

[albertGQ]

I just went to Boudrie Rouge today for lunch. The food was actually really good. Plus, they have great live entertainment there. Lol

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling

Good to know. It's a sandwich shop. I like a good sandwich so was hoping it'd be okay.

Where have you sampled them prior??

Practically every meal I eat is Green Bean because I survive off of all the catered food that appears in kitchens after meetings.

It's really not all that bad but then I don't pay for it. The variety is good when it's their catering because you get big platters with lots to choose from in sandwiches and fruits and vegetables and baked goods.

Sure it's generic food but it's mass produced for boardrooms and ain't as bad. They aren't supposed to be artisan sandwiches made just for you. It's ready to go food like you would get on a decent supermarket platter.

[ranchlandsselling]

Originally Posted by fotze

Brought in for lunch meetings and training sessions. So a lot. Boycotting them now. Awful sandwiches, butter/baloney and kraft single type of thing.

The coffee could bring you to tears. After drinking it you find yourself angry that you got tricked into ingesting it and you want to punch the owner in the face for such a blatant disregard for taste.

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Practically every meal I eat is Green Bean because I survive off of all the catered food that appears in kitchens after meetings.

It's really not all that bad but then I don't pay for it. The variety is good when it's their catering because you get big platters with lots to choose from in sandwiches and fruits and vegetables and baked goods.

Sure it's generic food but it's mass produced for boardrooms and ain't as bad. They aren't supposed to be artisan sandwiches made just for you. It's ready to go food like you would get on a decent supermarket platter.

So where do you buy it? Maybe the new location opening will be a half decent deli ?

[OldDutch]

Originally Posted by csnarpy

Been there a few times but prefer Chachi's way more. I just can't get enough of the New York...


and there is no comparison whatsoever to Chachi's vs Subway/Quizno's

Man the warm baked bread is so money, ah well, to each his own. I will give you the mac n cheese at Chachi is quite good, we hit that once every few weeks!

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling

So where do you buy it? Maybe the new location opening will be a half decent deli ?

I always see a Green Bean just across the street from the south side of Bow Valley Square. I don't know if their catering comes out of there or what.

Maybe Fotze's company is cheaping out because at our last team coffee meeting there were some really great baked goods and sliced fruit (grapefruit, yum!). My lunch today was from one of their meeting platters and it was Vietnamese sub style french bread stuffed with slices of real cheese, tasty salami, a nice spicy-tomato sauce, lettuce. It tasted better than anything I've ever eaten at Subway. The other day I had some nice Rye with roast beef and some kind of interesting jelly.

I have never, ever seen butter, baloney, and kraft singles type sandwiches like Fotze is describing on a Green Bean platter at work.

[secol]

i hear great things about rita sandwiches and catering in the fina building.....got a soup from them and it actually tastes homemade and not canned/powdered with real chunks of veggies (tomato tortellini) and their sandwiches looked pretty big

[homestand]

That Schnitzel Place at 821 - 4 Avenue SW

http://www.that-schnitzel-place.com/

[TurnedTheCorner]

Originally Posted by secol

i hear great things about rita sandwiches and catering in the fina building.....got a soup from them and it actually tastes homemade and not canned/powdered with real chunks of veggies (tomato tortellini) and their sandwiches looked pretty big

The club sandwich from there was always good.