Day 17 - The Food Factory

Today was the second day in a row that the gang (today it was Jennie, Andrew, Reg and Matt) ventured out to something new. Jennie had been here before and remembered having a great french dip. That was enough to convince us to stray just a little farther than normal for lunch. The Food Factory is located in downtown Cary in a somewhat dumpy shopping center type area. That said, the place has some character.

Obviously owned by a former New Yorker (or New Yorkers), the walls have a nice custom mural, Hurricanes and Mets schwag, old copies of the NY Daily News, American flags and 9/11 tributes. Don't want to forget the caricatures of the Seinfeld gang including Newman in the background. The food is decent and was commented to be "similar to the Village Deli" (still on the list).

Cost wise, the FF is expensive. Andrew had a completely average reuben and a drink. $10.53. Ouch. The reuben wasn't that big and there was NOTHING else on the plate. Not even a lousy pickle. Jason's Deli (still on the list) completely dominates the Factory in the reuben arena. Matt commented that his egg salad was fine, but certainly didn't compare to Piper's (still on the list). Jennie was disappointed that they didn't have the aforementioned french dip and also had an egg salad on croissant. Reg opted for a sub and that seemed like the best call for the money.

We all noticed that the high school kid working there for the summer was kind of lazy in taking our order. We announced what we wanted and each time he asked us for the item number from the menu (e.g. P3). It seemed to us like he should have made just a little effort to learn the menu.

Re-reading this, it seems like we hated the place. I don't think that's the case, but rather, we expected more for the money.