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Mall food courts are pretty awful in my experience. We’re starting to get upscale food courts that don’t like to call themselves food courts. But the prices, while better than sit down dining, aren’t cheap. The food is much better though. Here’s an example in Raleigh:

http://www.morganfoodhall.com/

(“Morgan Street Food Hall is a new lifestyle dining concept; not to be confused with a food court.” Ugh I almost didn’t visit the place since the web site is so fucking pretentious.)

I first visited one of these in Chicago.

My preference is a city park surrounded by food trucks. But these aren’t reliable, only work when the weather is good, etc.