Ronald Reagan State Building Cafeteria

Place is under new management. Cooks are the same so I’m back for my usual breakfast combo: 1 egg, wheat toast, 1 bacon and hash-​browns.

The bathrooms and facilities here are nasty. No soap, no paper towels, leaky sinks, toilets with shit/​shit stains on them. I’ve seen public park bathrooms that are more appealing, which says a lot.

I was convinced to come here by a coworker who preached the glories of their $ 3 breakfast plate stacked with eggs, bacon, pancakes, and potatoes. While it sounded too good to be true, I told myself not to expect too much from a government-​run cafeteria. My intuition was right. When I eventually went it was lunchtime, so I can’t say anything about the famed breakfast plate. First of all, the place is DRAB. I wasn’t surprised to find it near-​empty around noon… as if state employees don’t have enough to worry about already. In the kitchen area, there is an exhaustingly long menu — most of the offerings on which look extremely suspect. I decided to try to stay on the safe side by ordering one of the dishes I could see with my own eyes behind the glass — chicken parmesan. To be fair, it wasn’t awful. And the serving was large. The veggies on the side were way overcooked, as can be expected, but the chicken and pasta were comparable to a Marie Calendars microwave meal. And like everything else on the menu, it was insanely cheap — $ 4 I think.
Since you have to wait in line to go through metal detectors, probably best left to lazy state employees or the desperately broke.