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5922 King Highway- Kalamazoo, MI 49048
- (269) 459-6550
- No Known Website
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5922 King HighwayI can be lured in with a sign. If I’m driving by a place and I see a sign for hot food at a place there shouldn’t be hot food, I’m typically going to do a U-Turn to get back to that place.
When we lived in Lansing, I found the best taco shop inside a hardware store and I keep hoping to recreate that magic.
I was driving back into downtown Kalamazoo from Augusta the other day and decided to take M-96 back. I needed to stop at Speedway on the corner of King Highway and River Street. As I was doing that, a flashing sign across the street caught my eye.
The sign was attached to a small yellow building and was advertising food. I was just going to grab a burger from Speedway but I decided to get adventerous.
That building is Comstock Dollar and Discount. It’s on the east side of River Street right at the King Highway intersection. There is a row of business alongside it with a small parking lot out front.
The store is a little bit of everything. They sell groceries. They sell party supplies. They sell t-shirts….
Past the motor oil and wacky t-shirts they have a small counter serving up hot, made to order food.
I really didn’t know what I wanted when I walked in so the lone employee pointed me towards one of their specials. They do a brown bag lunch for $5 and one of the options was a burger, a can of pop, a bag of chips, and a snack cake. That sounded right up my alley so that’s what I got.
The “kitchen” isn’t much more than two electric griddles on a counter top. It took her a little over ten minutes to cook up my burger and bag it up. Once that was taken care of, she followed me over to the cash register where I paid a little over $5 for the meal with cash.
The burger was pretty simple. It’s a large frozen patty topped with American cheese on a brioche bun. There was the option for lettuce tomato onion, ketchup, and mustard but I asked to leave all that off. I don’t really like it and I was going to be eating in the car. The burger was pretty filling and while it had the hard compact properties of a frozen burger, it was nice and tender. The brioche bun was a nice change of pace from the cheap white bread bun that I was expecting.
The Brown Bag Special typically includes snack cakes but I was offered a fresh, home made muffin so I took that. It wasn’t very big…just a little over a bite and a half but it was warm, crumbly and delicious.
The small cafe inside Comstock Dollar & Discount isn’t something you need to go out of your way for but it is a nice option if you’re in the area. A lot of the food is going to be processed stuff but the people are friendly and there aren’t a lot of options to grab a burger in the immediate area.