Mary Mac's Tea Room

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"Depending on the day, this Southern landmark on Ponce is either packed with out-of-towners or colleagues at lunch. They come for the nostalgia of the original 1940s tearoom, which is valid. Name another meat-and-two stop where you write down your own order on a menu card. And where else will the waitress announce, “Comin’ in, honey” before plopping down a pretty decent pot roast and fluffy sweet potato soufflé? We’ll wait. And while we do, we’ll dip our cornbread into a cup of their brothy collard green potlikker (a fading Southern tradition that’s still very much the right move here)." - demarco williams, nina reeder, juli horsford, jacinta howard