Downtown Lunch Spots back in "the day"

[Campfire Girl]

Couldn't go wrong with a burger and fries and the Lindell AC - or a quick run across Grand Circus Park to go to Chin Tiki's when you worked at the Book Building like I did.

[mallory]

Was the name Schnelli's Deli? I think that was the name. Everybody ate there. Great corned beef.

[Hermod]

When I worked downtown, I always brown bagged. We played endless rounds of Euchre during the lunch hour.

Earlier when i would go downtown shopping with my mother, our standard spot was the cafeteria at Hudson's [[4th floor??). I loved their egg salad sandwiches on whole wheat. Sometimes my mother would want to go to the mayflower [[elderly waitresses in pink dresses). We would always stop at Broadway Market to buy "lunch sticks" for Sunday breakfast. Once in a while we would eat at one of the booths in the Broadway Market. Did it burn down in 1961?

[punky1]

At Michigan Ave. and Cass there was a little bar [[hope someone can remember the name) between Nick's and Lindell's that had a great little steak and salad lunch. Nick's before it was displaced by the people mover was great, never the same after it moved. The building where Gail's Office supplies was located had a great cafeteria in the lower level back in the 80s and early 90s. Is it still there? And of course Hudson's had a brown bag lunch from their deli you could grab after doing a bit of shopping. For a short time Niki's from Greektown had a small location at Michigan Ave. and Washington Ave. I still think it had the best cheese and pepperoni pizza ever. Wow the memories that come back. Even the Detroit Edison building had a great restaurant for awhile back in the 80s. Those were the days.

[5speedz34]

Are you talking about Nick's Gaslight Lounge? Since I first noticed it a few years back I always wondered if it is still open. They have a rather eye-catching mural.