Cafe 1137

This unpretentiously foodie take-out spot located in Windsor Mill offers a number of meat-focused combination platters, fried or grilled, all of them with garlic herb rice (which is thicker and gooier than normal rice), a small pile of lump crab meat, a piece of Cajun bread (basically spiced and buttered toast), and the Cafe 1137 sauce, which is a kind of tart and sweet thing, like aioli, plus Carolina mustard, and maybe even Big Mac sauce.

The fried salmon platter—it’s not so much “fried” as “seared” but Cafe 1137 never flatter themselves by saying “seared salmon”—is a satisfying pig-out that highlights what Cafe 1137 does best: It combines the best impulses of chalkboard menu bougie places and plain and simple yet fucking delicious take-out spots in every neighborhood.