Café Protégé

Café Protégé Restaurant Review:

In a pleasant setting of dark maple woodwork brightened by picture windows, enthusiastic students from the Lincoln Culinary Institute serve lunch crafted by student chefs (and faculty supervisors). Because the café is a training facility, menus change often. But a predominance of familiar, standard items like eggplant Parmesan, pan-seared sesame tuna with Asian slaw, jalapeño-marinated fried chicken bites with blue cheese dressing, honey-glazed grilled pork cutlets and the like suggest that future chefs are being focused towards commercial crowd-pleasing cooking, and not becoming the next Food Network stars.