Fill up on great sandwiches at Starving Artist Café & Deli Walk in to Starving Artist's tiny space and you might think you've been wafted back to the '60s. You don't have to be a hippie to love the food, though.Not that I’m worried about the Delta variant or anything – well, not too much. But it may have been a factor the other day in my decision to try takeout for the first time in a while. This is how I ended up at Starving Artist Café & Deli in Lyndon, which may be the best restaurant in town that I’ve hardly ever heard of.
Starving Artist is a tiny storefront packed with a half-dozen tables, a service window, and colorful decor – a psychedelic VW bus, peace symbols, flowers and exhortations to love – on its bright purple and green walls. It accepts only cash or checks, no credit cards; and it’s open only from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays: never on weekends.
Starving Artist never advertises. Its only online presence appears to be a Facebook page. And as far as I can tell after extensive searching, no local food critic (not even me) has ever reviewed it in its 20 years of operation.
Walk in to Starving Artist's tiny space and you might think you've been wafted back to the ‘60s. You don't have to be a hippie to love the food, though. Everything is made fresh from local produce, it’s made consistently well, and the menu pricing will take you back, if not to the ‘60s, at least to a simpler pre-inflationary time.
Speaking of the menu, that’s a little idiosyncratic, too. It’s hard to find, and the woman who took my phone order warned me not to trust the menus I find online, “because there are a lot of them, and they change.” A larger menu on the restaurant wall appears to be current, but quite a few of its prices are blacked out. So take all this with a grain of artisanal sea salt, but the good news is that nothing here is going to whack your wallet painfully. ...
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http://www.leoweekly.com/category/food-drink/Starving Artist Café & Deli8034 New La Grange Road
412-1599
Facebook:
http://bit.ly/kystarvingartistNoise Level: Not really an issue with a few people hanging around waiting for their pickup orders at the service window.
Accessibility: The tiny storefront appears accessible to wheelchair users.