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点评：My wife and I chose to make a day trip to the City Café in Murfreesboro on March 7th. It had been 10 or 15 years since I had dined there and my wife had never been. While driving to Murfreesboro from our home in Gallatin, I shared warm memories with my wife about my many trips to the City Café back in the 1970s, '80s and '90s. I told her about the crowds, sometimes having to wait for a table outside on the bench under the front window; about the 6 or 8 guys who were always holding court at the "Men's Table" near the front door; I prepared her for the best cloverleaf, yeast rolls she had ever had; the dilemma we would face deciding whether to order the chocolate meringue or the coconut cream meringue pie; the wide variety of country-cooked vegetables - I told her she was about to be treated to some of the best food Middle Tennessee had to offer. As we walked across the street toward the Café, I showed her the front window that once was part of the lead-in to the intro to Monday Night Football, with the theme being sung by Hank Williams Jr.
Then we walked in. We arrived at 12:30 - right in the middle of the lunch hour. The Men's Table was empty and there were fewer than a dozen customers dining in the restaurant. A voice from behind the rear counter announced that we could sit anywhere we wanted. The entire plate-lunch selection was written on a chalkboard on the wall, consisting of 2 meats and 6 sides. The desert selection included 3 cobblers, 1 pie option (chess) and cinnamon rolls - that is it! The remainder of the menu is a below-average selection of sandwiches and salads. Apparently, there was not a single meringue pie available, which for the City Café is some sort of sacrilege.
The quality of the food is barely average. Gone are the magnificent, cloverleaf yeast rolls. The yeast rolls we were served were small, pillow-shaped rolls that were dark brown (over baked), probably received by the Café, frozen. The chicken-fried chicken breast (with white gravy) was good; the chicken was moist and the gravy was good. The vegetables were average, probably coming out of a #10 can delivered by a Sisco truck. The sweet tea was good, but for more than $2.00, it should have been.
Service was adequate - the young lady that served us was sweet and friendly.
And last, but not least - the prices are very high. We each had a lunch plate (1 meat and 2 or 3 vegetables - no desert) and sweet tea with lemon. We added a 20% tip and the final bill was a few cents under $40.00 - ouch!
To say that we were disappointed is an understatement. The current City Café is not even a blurry shadow of its former self. Way beyond being a disappointment, considering the magnificent, culinary history of this venerable landmark situated at the geographic center of Tennessee, our experience was a dining disaster. If you are considering a trip to the City Café, don't expect much, because it is no longer the City Café that we have all known from the past.
Bill T.
Then we walked in. We arrived at 12:30 - right in the middle of the lunch hour. The Men's Table was empty and there were fewer than a dozen customers dining in the restaurant. A voice from behind the rear counter announced that we could sit anywhere we wanted. The entire plate-lunch selection was written on a chalkboard on the wall, consisting of 2 meats and 6 sides. The desert selection included 3 cobblers, 1 pie option (chess) and cinnamon rolls - that is it! The remainder of the menu is a below-average selection of sandwiches and salads. Apparently, there was not a single meringue pie available, which for the City Café is some sort of sacrilege.
The quality of the food is barely average. Gone are the magnificent, cloverleaf yeast rolls. The yeast rolls we were served were small, pillow-shaped rolls that were dark brown (over baked), probably received by the Café, frozen. The chicken-fried chicken breast (with white gravy) was good; the chicken was moist and the gravy was good. The vegetables were average, probably coming out of a #10 can delivered by a Sisco truck. The sweet tea was good, but for more than $2.00, it should have been.
Service was adequate - the young lady that served us was sweet and friendly.
And last, but not least - the prices are very high. We each had a lunch plate (1 meat and 2 or 3 vegetables - no desert) and sweet tea with lemon. We added a 20% tip and the final bill was a few cents under $40.00 - ouch!
To say that we were disappointed is an understatement. The current City Café is not even a blurry shadow of its former self. Way beyond being a disappointment, considering the magnificent, culinary history of this venerable landmark situated at the geographic center of Tennessee, our experience was a dining disaster. If you are considering a trip to the City Café, don't expect much, because it is no longer the City Café that we have all known from the past.
Bill T.
翻译：我和我的妻子选择在 3 月 7 日前往默弗里斯伯勒的城市咖啡馆进行一日游。自从我在那里用餐以来已经有 10 或 15 年了，而我的妻子从未去过。从我们位于加勒廷的家开车去默弗里斯伯勒时，我与妻子分享了我在 70 年代、80 年代和 90 年代多次去城市咖啡馆旅行的温馨回忆。我告诉她这里人山人海，有时不得不在前窗下的长凳上等外面的桌子；关于总是在前门附近的“男士餐桌”旁等待的 6 或 8 个人；我为她准备了她吃过的最好的三叶草酵母卷；我们在决定是点巧克力蛋白酥皮还是椰子奶油蛋白酥皮派时会面临两难选择；种类繁多的乡村蔬菜——我告诉她，她将享受田纳西州中部提供的一些最好的食物。当我们穿过街道走向咖啡馆时，我向她展示了前窗，它曾经是周一橄榄球之夜的序曲部分，主题曲由小汉克·威廉姆斯演唱。
然后我们走进去。我们在 12:30 到达——正好在午餐时间的中间。男士桌空无一人，餐厅里就餐的顾客不到十几个。后柜台后面传来一个声音宣布我们可以坐在任何我们想坐的地方。整个盘子午餐的选择都写在墙上的黑板上，包括 2 种肉和 6 种配菜。沙漠选择包括 3 个鞋匠、1 个馅饼选项（国际象棋）和肉桂卷 - 就是这样！菜单的其余部分是低于平均水平的三明治和沙拉。显然，没有一个蛋白酥皮派可用，这对 City Café 来说是一种亵渎。
食物的质量勉强平均。宏伟的三叶草酵母卷已经一去不复返了。我们吃的酵母面包卷很小，呈枕形，呈深棕色（烤过头），可能是咖啡馆收到的，冷冻的。炸鸡胸肉（配白汁）不错；鸡肉很湿，肉汁很好吃。蔬菜很一般，可能来自 Sisco 卡车运送的 #10 罐头。甜茶很好，但超过 2.00 美元，它应该是。
服务足够 - 为我们服务的年轻女士甜美而友好。
最后但同样重要的是——价格非常高。我们每个人都有一个午餐盘（1 份肉和 2 或 3 份蔬菜 - 没有沙漠）和柠檬甜茶。我们加了 20% 的小费，最终账单比 40.00 美元少了几美分——哎哟！
说我们很失望是一种轻描淡写的说法。当前的 City Café 甚至不是它以前的模糊影子。除了令人失望之外，考虑到位于田纳西州地理中心的这个古老地标的宏伟烹饪历史，我们的经历简直就是一场用餐灾难。如果您正在考虑去 City Café 旅行，请不要期望太多，因为它不再是我们过去所熟知的 City Café。
比尔·T。
然后我们走进去。我们在 12:30 到达——正好在午餐时间的中间。男士桌空无一人，餐厅里就餐的顾客不到十几个。后柜台后面传来一个声音宣布我们可以坐在任何我们想坐的地方。整个盘子午餐的选择都写在墙上的黑板上，包括 2 种肉和 6 种配菜。沙漠选择包括 3 个鞋匠、1 个馅饼选项（国际象棋）和肉桂卷 - 就是这样！菜单的其余部分是低于平均水平的三明治和沙拉。显然，没有一个蛋白酥皮派可用，这对 City Café 来说是一种亵渎。
食物的质量勉强平均。宏伟的三叶草酵母卷已经一去不复返了。我们吃的酵母面包卷很小，呈枕形，呈深棕色（烤过头），可能是咖啡馆收到的，冷冻的。炸鸡胸肉（配白汁）不错；鸡肉很湿，肉汁很好吃。蔬菜很一般，可能来自 Sisco 卡车运送的 #10 罐头。甜茶很好，但超过 2.00 美元，它应该是。
服务足够 - 为我们服务的年轻女士甜美而友好。
最后但同样重要的是——价格非常高。我们每个人都有一个午餐盘（1 份肉和 2 或 3 份蔬菜 - 没有沙漠）和柠檬甜茶。我们加了 20% 的小费，最终账单比 40.00 美元少了几美分——哎哟！
说我们很失望是一种轻描淡写的说法。当前的 City Café 甚至不是它以前的模糊影子。除了令人失望之外，考虑到位于田纳西州地理中心的这个古老地标的宏伟烹饪历史，我们的经历简直就是一场用餐灾难。如果您正在考虑去 City Café 旅行，请不要期望太多，因为它不再是我们过去所熟知的 City Café。
比尔·T。
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