Department of Commerce

How the heck do you review a Federal office building? Assuming you are heading there for business, I will give it a try.
Commerce is located kitty corner to the White House but the main entrance is on the far side across the street from the Reagan building. If this is your first visit to Commerce, and the weather is nice, you should probably enter through the main entrance. There is another entrances located through the Regan building’s food court. Depending on the weather, and especially if you arrived via the Federal Triangle Metro stop, this entrance may be worth trekking to if you have a guide.
Once inside, if you don’t know where you are going, ask the guard and pay attention. Commerce is made up of several buildings connected via walkways on the upper, not ground, floors. Also, the room numbering system can be a challenge.
While you are there, take some time to look up and look around. This is an old building and in some locations the original ceilings and walls have not been covered up with drop down tile and cubical partitions. Then get back to work.

***this review is about the cafeteria only***
The cafeteria is like Market-​to-​Market. It has hot food station, cold salad station, hot sandwich station, baked potato station, cold cut sandwich station, sushi station, coffee, tea, and all the bottled drinks (except wine) you can think of. You would think 17,000 people work in that building. Well… sort of…
So I enter with my fed-​id-​badge (quite handy when there’s hordes of giggly pre-​teen tourist kids with vouchers swarming the food court at the Ronald Reagan building), walk up to the hot sandwich station, and order a «grilled cheese on heavily buttered white bread». The shamwhich prep lady looks at me, rolls her eyes twice, and says «white?» Um, yes. Thanks. White.
Then she proceeds to take the brush, dip it in oil, smear that oil onto the grill, and lay my bread into it. Ugh. At that point, I rolled MY eyes twice. After a while, the spatula weilding, meat patty flipping, cooktop scraping shamwhich cook lays approximately a whole cheesehead’s worth of American cheese slices onto my bread. Thank God.
So the sandwich was warm and cheesy. But it wasn’t buttery eventhough it HAD been on the grill. That’s why I’m giving it two stars. I have been searching the lunchtime food purveyeors worldwide to find the quantity of cheese + the buttery, grillish-​ness of the bread in the same sandwich. This one gets five stars for the cheese. Take away three stars for the lack of butter and there you have it. Two stars.