In A Minute Cafe & Lounge — Restaurant in Maryland

In a Minute Cafe makes you feel like a family from the moment you enter the door to when you leave with takeout in hand. Located in a small shopping center in Capitol Heights, In a Minute Cafe is a black-owned restaurant making delicious soul food. Here's why to go:

1. Food: Every single item is well made and tasty. The menu changes each day so study the list online before going. Here's the run down:

Wake Me Monday with grab grilled cheese, cheesesteak, "Missy Marvin" (cheesesteak with crab dip and signature sauce), crab fried, seafood rice, hennessey wings and seasoned fried

Tired Tuesday with crab cake BLT, chicken cheesesteak, "LochMess Monster" (chicken cheesesteak with crab dip and signature sauce), crab fries, seafood rice, hennessey wings and seasoned fried

Halfway Wednesday with crab and shrimp linguine in white wine sauce, cajun chicken pasta, crab grilled cheese, hennessy wings and seasoned fries

Hurdle Thursday with cafe combo (hennessy wings/crab fries/mini crab cakes), crab stuffed salmon with mashed potatoes and asparagus, crab fries, seasoned fries, wings and vegetable of the day

Fish Fry Friday with jumbo lump crab cake, fried catfish, fried whiting. hennessey wings, peach cobbler and cakes

Soul Food Saturday with jumbo lump crab cake, fried catfish, fried whiting and hennessey wings, peach cobbler and cakes

Closed on Sundays

2. Service: They are very helpful, kind and quick!

The space is small and built for takeout only, but it's an inviting space.

The prices are reasonable...

I am so glad I stumbled upon this place! I ordered the Jumbo crab cake dinner. EVERYTHING was amazing. The greens were perfectly seasoned and flavored well with meat. The mac n' cheese was baked and cheesy. The cornbread was sweet but not overly so, just the way I like it. The crabcake....that crabcake was better than Blue Dolphin's, Jerry's and a few others that I've tried. It's seasoned, lightly fried and NOT MUCH FILLER AT ALL! The Hennessey wings were perfect! If you don't like sweet sauce on your wings, then maybe try a different flavor. I couldn't put the wings down once I got started. My mom and I love this place. She got the catfish dinner and would have like her catfish fried harder, but she loved her food. The catfish is not heavily breaded, which is good health-wise, but it was fried to golden perfection. I will be back to In a...

The food is ok, but I will say that it is severely overpriced for what you get. The Crab Grilled Cheese is ok, but for $14 you'd expect least bigger than usual sandwich or come with some fries, but is a small sandwich that is gone in a second. The menu online also describes The Seasoned fries as "crispy fries served with our special sauce" but no special sauce anywhere in sight. They also didn't have mac and cheese which was disappointing. Overall, the food wasn't great aside from the crab fries, while the Hennessy wings were not very good to me. I was expecting more in the taste department, especially after how hyped people were online and how the articles I read online described the food (maybe they were paid by the owner, but for me, this backfired as I was...