My girlfriend and I were checking out the city courtesy of the Greater Lansing Convention and Visitor’s Bureau “Be a Tourist in Your Own Town” (which is an incredible event and I would definately recommend you check it out next year.) Around lunch time, we made it downtown and decided to hit up Washington Square for lunch. At first, we stopped into Tavern on the Square, but the menu kind of sucked. There were no sandwiches and it was pretty expensive. We were just looking for a quick lunch so we could keep touring the town.
Across the street sat Kelly’s. So we got up and left Tavern on the Square and crossed the street. There was a patio outside, but we chose to go inside and found a table near the front of the shop. There’s a huge bar in the middle of the space with seating all the way around. We sat down and waited five to ten minutes for the lone waitress/bartender to even acknowledge us. She yelled across the bar to get our drink orders then a bus boy actually brought them out. After a few more minutes, she yelled across the bar to take our order as well.
My girlfriend got Kelly’s Thatsa Wrap which is listed as vegetarian, but offers options to add grilled chicken which she did. The wrap comes standard with tomatos, cucumbers, peppers, onions, and mushrooms inside a flour tortilla. Besides the chicken, she got ranch on the side and added fries to her order. She seemed to really like the wrap and had some fries left over for me. She said the cucumbers were a good addition changing the texture and the flavor of what you usually expect in a wrap like this.
I got the Bear Burger. It was a 1/3 lb sirloin burger with crumbled bleu cheese and bacon. The burger was obviously a frozen patty. It was really greasy. I picked the sandwich up and it was wet. At first, I was afraid it wasn’t done. There was a puddle of grease on the bottom that I almost mistook for blood. I bit into it anyway and it was done, but it was really greasy. Fortunately, the bleu cheese covered most of that up. I did a double check just to make sure there was bacon on there. It kind of got lost in all the wetness.
After the initial delay in getting to us, the waitress did a much better job. Our drinks never got empty and she got the check to us pretty quickly. For the two of us, it was about $20, but we ended up spending more time in the restaurant than we really wanted to. Really it was only about forty minutes, so it’s not terrible and normally I wouldn’t complain. I’ve read a lot of good reveiws about this place, but it didn’t do anything for me. My burger wasn’t very good and places like this I usually expect more. I just haven’t had much luck with the downtown restaurants yet. I’m still looking for that place near the Capitol that is worth getting in the car and paying parking for. Kelly’s would probably be a great night spot, but for lunch, it just didn’t do anything for me.
Mid-Michigan Dining 
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