Maid-Rite

So okay the exterior of the building isn’t 5 star and the décor isn’t chic and stylish. Who cares! I go there for two reasons, to eat good food and enjoy the service. There are darn few of the old neighborhood diner’s left and this one brings back a lot of good memories. Yes they have regulars (I am proud to be one!) but that is half the fun, watching the staff interact with the people they know and mutually love and respect.
The food is typical neighborhood diner fare, good to eat, portions a plenty, and reasonably priced. Try it and see

Consider this Unilocal friends This particular Maid-​Rite as a menu that has a lot imagination where as the standard Maid-​Rite menu is mundane/​dated 3 stars just for this action this franchisee efforts to have a complete breakfast, and again a diverse menu bravo…

There are probably a couple of good reasons why no one has written a review of Maid-​Rite on Caledonia before this. It’s located in the low-​rent district. The ancient brick building with its old-​fashioned store front and tarpaper roof isn’t inviting. Inside the seating is cramped with a few tables by the front window and a U-​shaped counter with munchkin-​size stools surrounding the old apparatus used to cook the meat for the Maid-​Rite sandwich. The walls are covered with old railroad memorabilia. The floor of the restroom slopes a bit. You can’t think of a visit to this Maid-​Rite as dining out. It’s more like culinary archeology. Most Unilocalers aren’t going to think much of this place, but I visit it once in a great while. My three-​star rating may be generous, and I haven’t tried many of the things on the menu.
Maid-​Rite is a mid-​western franchise chain that is famous for its loose meat hamburger sandwich. The bun for a Maid-​Rite is spongy soft. The meat sits atop some mustard, pickles and chopped onion. Some of the juice from the meat soaks into the bun. You eat it from the paper wrapper rather than from a plate. It’s a bit sloppy with some meat spilling out. I kinda like it, and enough people get Maid-​Rites to go to keep the place in business. The food seems no better than mediocre overall, but I haven’t sampled anything from the breakfast menu. I liked the sandwich though I wouldn’t eat one often. The cole slaw was too heavily dressed for my taste. My apple pie (at $ 1.85 a slice) seemed like a bargain, but it was just OK like most everything else.
The place is a throwback to the depression era. The regular dine-​in customers are predominantly old men who reminisce about midwestern life as it used to be. People who are down on their luck are embraced here, and both waitresses and customers fall into the category of «characters.» The King of the Hobos, an itinerant poet called Iowa Blackie, was allowed to sleep in the back when he was in town. (Blackie was banned from the Sweet Shop next door because of his outlandish personality and hobo smell.) Go here if you’re interested in a bit of local history and color. Don’t expect too much from the food. After eating a Maid-​Rite sandwich, you can go next door to the Sweet Shop for another kind of retro experience but with really good food. I’m fond of this dive, but it’s not for everybody.