PORTAGE, MI— A local breakfast staple is excited to reopen their doors next week after a three-month pause on indoor dining.
After months of being restricted to carryout orders due to the coronavirus pandemic, the owners of Full City Cafe are among restauranteurs and patrons excited to start thinking outside the takeout box.
“You can enjoy a meal that is #notinabox,” owner Keith Langdon penned in his latest newsletter.
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Full City Cafe, located at 7878 Oakland Dr in Portage, has been serving up fresh meals since 1993. Owners Keith and Lisa Langdon had been living in Portland, Oregon, before they returned to the Kalamazoo area and opened Full City Cafe in 1993.
“We modeled it on Starbucks with coffee and pastries,” Keith Langdon said.
Today, their business still includes coffee, smoothies and pastries, but has expanded to offer a wide selection of breakfast and lunch meals as well.
Keith Langdon is a former sous chef at Gull Lake Country Club, and Lisa is a graduate of the Western Culinary Institute.
Two popular dishes on the menu are the ‘Miyako Breakfast’ — a bed of steamed rice with chashu braised pork belly, spinach, carrots, scallions, radishes, eggs your way, sriracha mayo and soy-ginger sauce. Another sandwich that has been flying out of the cafe is the ‘smokin cubano’.
Starting next Tuesday, Full City Cafe will reopen its doors, but limit diners to the state-mandated 25% capacity. Keith said that translates into 35 customers (no more than six to a table) inside their restaurant, with all of their tables spaced for social distancing.
The Portage cafe, like most businesses, have learned to adapted over the course of the last year with dining guidelines and restrictions. Each table will have a QR code for contact tracing purposes and the menus will also be available via a QR code. You can see the cafe’s full commitment to keeping customers safe on its website.
“Please remember whether you dine with us, or wherever you go, for the next few weeks, be patient,” Keith Langdon penned in a newsletter to his customers. “Most of us are pretty rusty after the ‘pause.’ It will take us a little while to get our teams up to speed again. Many of us, including ourselves, are a little short on staff.”
The restauranteur is excited about the reopening, but also a little apprehensive. He wants to keep his customers and staff as safe as possible.
Customers still can order meals curbside and takeout by submitting their order on the cafe’s website.
February is national pancake month, so each week Full City will be offering up specialty pancakes to its customers:
- Feb. 2-7: Cherry Chip
- Feb. 8-14, Valentine’s week: Red Velvet
- Feb. 15-21: Banana Foster
- Feb. 25-28: S’Mores Cakes
If you are looking for a more hearty meal, the restaurant plans to offer a variety of Cajun options in celebration of Mardi Gras from Feb. 5 -21. Those options include beignets, muffuletta, grouper po’ boy, red beans and rice, Cajun crab benedict, grits and eggs, Zydeco gumbo.
Also next week, customers can place orders for a ‘Game Day Snack Kit’ for the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 7.
The kit, which feeds 4-6 people, includes eight pulled-pork sliders (smoked in house with their BBQ sauce and jalapeno jam), scratch-made queso cheese and fresh-fried corn tortillas. If that wasn’t enough, there are also a dozen boneless wings available in the ‘heat and eat’ kit for $31.99. Customers interested must place their orders no later than Feb. 4, with pickup on Feb. 6.
Full City Cafe is open Tuesday through Saturday, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Sundays, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.. They are closed on Mondays.
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