This weekend the husband and I stayed in Lansing for the first time in forever. It was so nice to sleep in two mornings in a row! Saturday we stopped at Potbelly, which is located directly across the street from Michigan State University. It is on a strip of road filled with cool eateries, shops, bookstores and all things college friendly. From tanning to American Apparel to medical marijuana, you can find a little bit of everything here. I saw this particular sandwich shop when we first arrived here almost 2 months ago...
You order your sandwich and they put it through the conveyer belt oven which not only melts the cheese and meat but finishes cooking the bread as well. Then you choose your toppings......
Saturday we finally had a chance to stop in and try this subway-esque shop for hot eats.I ordered the skinny mushroom melt with creamy tomato soup.
They call it skinny for reason, I wasn't very satisfied after eating this but it was very good. I also got hot peppers which were actually celery, banana pepper and carrots that had been pickled in a spicy mixture. YUM.
Husband got the turkey melt. He thought it was pretty bland and ended up eating half of my soup because he is a bottomless pit was still hungry as well...
Our little spot, you can see State's campus... I wasn't supposed to be in the picture.
Snowy day...the creamy tomato soup was the best part!
Partly just because it was HOT!
View of the whole sandwich shop.
Overall, we give Potbelly a 6.5 out of 10. It was a cool shop with as good as service as you get when a bunch of college guys who were probably hitting up the medical marijuana shop earlier are running the joint. The soup was to die for and the sandwiches left us wanting a little more. However, we would try this place again because we give any establishment that will feed us a second chance.
Have you ever been to Lansing? Any great restaurants that got a 10 out of 10?
Cosi is one of my favorite restaurants, ever. I've always wondered about Potbelly, but Cosi is where I eat every time I'm in Lansing.
ReplyDeleteoooo! I've never been to Lansing, but I've been to potbelly's, roughly 389089021 times, ish. Its one of my favorites! Although I have to confess, I've only had one of their sandwiches, I refuse to have anything else. I get the pizza one, its delicious. Also, their cookies are amazing! I'm sorry you had a somewhat disappointing experience! Although I would have no idea what 95% of their sandwiches taste like. : )
ReplyDeleteAmber--as we were eating our sandwiches I was looking through the window at Cosi wishing we had gotten one sandwich from each to taste! Next time we will have to stop there!
ReplyDeleteMcKenzie-- maybe I will try the pizza sub next time. And I don't need an excuse to eat cookies, I did see they had a choco chip macadamia nut cookie so maybe I need to get that as well!
ohhhh yes please. this looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteCosi is awesome because at lunch/breakfast you go up to the "bar" to order, but at dinner they're a sit-down restaurant that serves alcohol.
ReplyDeletewe have potbelly here in west lafayette- go boilers! ;) we like it; but yeah we wouldn't give it much more than a 6 or 7. we've had better ;) ha. i do like how they decorate!
ReplyDeletePotbelly is my favorite! It's the only sandwich place that has a filling vegetarian sandwich.
ReplyDeleteMandy, I think I got the vegetarian one with mushrooms and I liked it. We have appetites that are too big for our own good (and waistline---thank you for the gym!) haha
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