Beanzz Café

Lunch at Beanzz is built to order, one wrap or ciabatta at a time, and finished from a dessert case the café takes more seriously than most lunch counters bother to. The Christina Street North counter turns out wraps, ciabattas, sandwiches and homemade soup through the middle of the day, then sends a slice of turtle cheesecake out to close the tab. Beanzz carries the name of a coffee house and runs like a full daytime operation — open weekday mornings through late afternoon, a shorter stretch on Saturday, dark on Sunday.

The menu earns that range, and it is organized so each section stands on its own. The wrap list runs from a Chicken Bacon Ranch — chicken, bacon, cucumber, onion, tomato and cheese pulled together with ranch — to a Thai Chicken built on carrot, cucumber and egg noodles under a Thai dressing, with a tzatziki-laced Shawarma holding the middle. The ciabattas lean warmer and heavier: a Pulled Pork in smoky barbecue sauce with Swiss and onion, a Chicken Parmesan under tomato sauce and two cheeses, and a Dill Pickle Chicken Salad of diced pickles and cheddar that turns a novelty into a real order. Around them sit the steadier formats — a Reuben on marbled rye, a club stacked with ham, turkey and bacon, and homemade soups or chili that change with the day.