Walking into Broad Street is a treat for all five senses: it is a bright and bustling place, with wonderful aromas, sights and sounds. A faux cobblestone street runs through the heart of Broad Street; light wood, galvanized steel and street lamp-style fixtures give it a true ‘street feel’. Broad Street's the sort of place where people grab a quick bite or spend an afternoon reading a good book over a cup of hot coffee and a tasty Danish, or working on their laptop computers.
The smell of fresh baked good permeates the air, a counter chock full of pastries and desserts overwhelms the eye, a rack of fresh-baked Sourdough, Italian and French breads covers the back counter wall. People are everywhere… Broad Street is as much a public gathering place as an eatery. If you want to see someone you haven’t seen in a while, just hang out at Broad Street… the person you're looking for will show up!
While breads and pastry serve as the “heart” of the business, Broad Street has one of the largest deli menu offerings in central Mississippi. From 7 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. seven days a week, Broad Street starts each day serving short order breakfasts, with eggs, omelets, breakfast burritos, croissant sandwiches, biscuit sandwiches as the featured items.
Come lunch time, the menu shifts to made-to-order sandwiches on their gourmet breads, unique and overwhelming generous salads (the Cobb is a Jackson staple!), hearty soups (including the award wining smoked chicken and andouille sausage gumbo), quiche, po-boys, lasagna, and roasted chicken.
At night, the menu expands even further to include pizzas on a choice of house-made Ciabatta or Sugar Busters™ crusts, truly exceptional pastas (curry chicken, shrimp and black bean, chicken and goat cheese to name just a few of the ever-creative nightly offerings).
Broad Street boasts 200 seats in four distinctive seating areas: the main dining room, outside on the patio under colorful umbrellas, upstairs in the Banner Hall atrium in front of the world-class Lemuria bookstore, or around the fountain and front entrance of Banner Hall on the first floor.
In addition to dine-in, Broad Street supports a huge to-go business and is one of Jackson’s largest and most called-upon corporate box lunch catering and special event catering businesses. (They have fed as many as 1200 people a formal lunch in the Mississippi Coliseum when President Bush visited a few years back, and they have been asked to cater the prestigious Junior League Mistletoe Marketplace Preview Party and Breakfast on the Boulevard events this winter.)
But why settle for a virtual visit when the real thing is just minutes away? Stop by Broad Street. Grab a hot cup of coffee. Indulge in a Danish, or experience a sandwich made with fresh artesian bread. In minutes, you'll understand what makes Broad Street different ... and you'll feel right at home, to boot.
Sounds like a great place to live by. I've actually been trying to decide what area to move to next come January, so cool sounding places like this are great for me to read about. Then again, at this rate I may have too many places to consider moving to...
Posted by: Phillip | October 18, 2009 at 09:43 PM