If you’ve ever found yourself on North George Street during a weekday lunch rush, odds are you’ve walked past the Stage Deli.
A small shop on the corner of West Clark Avenue, the deli’s modest signage includes one above the door and a few vinyl stickers displayed across the shop’s glass windows.
Maybe you stopped in for an early breakfast, mid-trial lunch while serving jury duty at the courthouse, right across the street, or you needed them to hold your phone (not allowed in the courthouse).
Inside, there’s a couple of tables and a few bar stools to choose from if you’re dining in. Throughout the snug space, however, there’s character on the walls and it comes in many forms.
On the chalkboard menu you’ll find deli classics at reasonable prices and hefty portions – sandwiches, wraps, homemade soups, salads and their famous baked macaroni and cheese. It’s a hole in the wall, to say the least.
The staff makes you feel at home, genuinely starting conversations with people as they wait for their food, making people smile and sometimes laugh.