Avgolemono returns to Mediterranean Cafe

To take our food coverage beyond hip-hop buffet endorsements (although expanding that, indie rock cookbook-style, could be fun. Don't "steal" that idea!) we offer the following update:

At some point in July, we were told that Med Cafe was only making one pot of soup a day, owing to the youth-migration business dip. So we resigned ourselves to the reign of the lentil, and conceded it made sense for that pot to go vegan. The imminent return of the youth means business hours have recently extended and freedom of choice has been restored. Which means fewer frustrated trips to Chipotle and Potbelly's when the proprietors of this blog take 4pm lunch breaks--closing time is back to the school year's 4:30pm.

More importantly, the sublime lemon-chicken-egg goop that is avgolemono should be regularly available. Or at least, we had some 30 minutes ago.

If you are ravenous and starch-addicted, consider the "soup over rice" option: an additional $.75 ($2.25, up from $1.50) will get it splattered over a mound of color-matched saffron rice (sometimes oily, but always filling). We're pretty sure you get more rice if you order to go: the carry-out boxes harbor deep wells that demand filling.

Related:

• In a "Cheap Eats" piece, Linda Falkenstein shouted-out the "killer" avgo.
• Fearing we'd curdle it into something that looked like a vat of regurgitated margaritas and scrambled eggs, we've never tried making avgolemono at home, but someone pasted a recipe into TDP forums
• Here's the regular menu.