The Monroe

In the morning and afternoon, The Monroe is a coffee shop, where college students study and corporate types grab lunch, and then turns into a cocktail lounge at night. They do excellent, upscale comfort food dishes that go heavy on nostalgia. Go for the pastrami corn dog as an appetizer, then double down on mains like steak frites or the fried chicken thigh sandwich and desserts like the ice-cream-topped brownie. When it’s not too swampy out, snag a spot out on the porch or patio.