Honest John’s

Honest John’s works because it is useful at almost every hour: drinks, a burger, eggs after the point when eggs make sense, and a room that still feels like the Cass Corridor even though the address now says Midtown.

Use it as the easy beginning or the forgiving end. If the night got away from you, order breakfast and call that a strategy.

Everybody wants something different, it is late, or a polished room would make the night worse.

You want intimacy, restraint, or any guarantee the next table is having the same kind of evening.