When I first heard the name Don’s Alley, it reminded me of a b-flick from the 1950s starring Robert Mitchum as a down-and-out boxer who, since taking a dive a few years back, has to work as a mob enforcer just to pay for his sick daughter’s operation. Doesn’t that sound like a watchable potboiler?
Sadly, the name instead belongs to a mediocre restaurant at 4601 S.E. 29th which, unsurprisingly, is also a relic from the 1950s. Built like a brick house—mostly because it is a brick house—the popular Del City operation is usually packed with a broad crosscut of older Americans, dammit, and today was obviously no exception.