In being Minnesotan, I feel it's necessary to draw a line of separation between ""good"" and mere institutionalized acceptability. For the folks who haven't frozen off taste buds by licking frozen metal when they were drunken teenagers, ""good"" still exists, but you'd best look elsewhere.
MN food Example A: Hotdishes. They're generally just not ""good."" Don't whine, you can still fantasize about grandma's special tater-tot-green bean-Campbell's soup concoction - but it's merely the warm, fuzzy family experience that you enjoy. In fact, it's a pretty lame attack on ""good"" food to take bastardized, flimsy and abhorrently bland ingredients and serve in a hot dish.
Well, turns out, weak ingredients make a decisively lame sandwich too, and Caffery's is the proof. Walk in and look behind the counter - the same shrink-wrapped meats and institutional bread that you were probably served in elementary school. Now, as the wise American that you are, you can pay your $7 at Caffery's....or you can get the same sad excuse for food at the local gas station for $3.50, OR just crash your nephew's 2nd grade lunch period.
Face it, lunch-lady food is not completely rad just because it's in Uptown. And Caffery's is NOT good. Hey, feel free to try it, but don't expect anything above the ""well, I guess it's food"" rating.
Ooops, almost forgot. In fairness, the soups here are good. Some people think that Progresso is the next sliced bread. These folks will love it.
Pros: White bread and top-40 mediocrity; tastes like public school
Cons: Zero chance of experiencing anything above mediocrity.
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