Main Streat Food Hall By H-E-B — Restaurant in Austin

Probably closer to 3 1/2, but I'm feeling semi-generous. Think mall or airport food court, but with better quality and execution.

The hard part for our first visit was deciding which restaurant to try. I ended up trying their Japanese restaurant and my dining companion tried the grilled cheese restaurant.

First and foremost, this is not a user friendly experience. Every one of the restaurants is a self serve counter where you use a keypad to order. The format of the keypad/menu isn't easy to follow. More than one diner (besides me and my companion) needed to figure out how to order a drink. (FYI, you order the drink from the keypad, then you get your cup when they call you up for your food.) Additionally, customizing an order can be a bit of a challenge. A lot of the online ordering platforms have customization options, but Main Streat has a space to enter your requests with the on-screen keyboard. Fortunately, the kitchen staff does a great job of reading and accommodating special requests.

I had the pork potstickers, which are some of the best in town. They're crispy, but not deep fried and the sauce has a good flavor. I also liked my noodles with the beef skewers. The beef was high quality, but it would've benefitted from being flipped on the grill as one side had grill marks and the other side was just grey meat. My dining companion had one of the grilled cheese sandwiches, which she described as good.

Once you figure out that you need to order the drinks at the same time you place your food order, you'll find the drinks in the limited seating area by the bar. HEB has its own version of the Coca-Cola Freestyle machine which offers products from Coke, Pepsi, and Maine Root. They also have sweet and unsweet tea as well as lemonade and strawberry lemonade.

The food is high quality and there are a lot of options available (surprisingly no burger or Italian options, though). The awkwardness of ordering and very limited dine-in seating means that Main Streat will be someplace that I'd only stop by when in the area and probably...

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