An umbrella shades Cafe MiMi’s one outdoor table.
Cafe MiMi is Korean street food meets comfort food, served where Allen Street meets Regent Street. It’s basically a stationary food cart. The food is fun and fine — “humble,” you might say, in homage to the pie shop by that name that once occupied the space.
Owner Youngeun Cho maximized her prep area by closing the interior to customers and creating an ordering window. Takeout is the only option unless you nab one of the several chairs under the bright sun umbrella in front of the cafe. If that’s the way you go, and on a sunny day it makes for a pleasant interlude, you may share the space with strangers or neighbors and trade notes about menu items, and leave feeling better about life…