Balthazar is no longer the go-to for late-night eats in Soho. Two weeks from now Delicatessen will be open 24 hours on Thursdays through Saturdays. Around 11:30 p.m. last night there were a couple dozen folks in the breezy dining room — a mix of Chelsea homoflexuals and girls dressed for the meatpacking district. Buffa’s this ain’t. At the end of a meal that included what we suspect will be the place’s must-get — Reuben fritters! — we were surprised to get a three-page satisfaction survey asking no less than 30 questions about the service, portion sizes, décor, music, lighting, and pricing. Sample query: “What was your least favorite dish and why? Please be as specific as possible.” Um. After a $14 absinthe Sazerac, we were in no place to fill out forms, but we did have the presence of mind to steal the menu for you!

It’s not a Frank Gehry cafeteria, but the company mess in the subbasement of 6 East 43rd Street is a better locale for breakfast or lunch than, say, your desk. If you work in the building (for unglam companies like the New York State Dental Association, Children for Children, or Emigrant Savings Bank), you are entitled to eat at the Sea Level Café, a 160-seat grotto with three 700-gallon fish tanks for walls, stone-terrazzo floors, and twenty-foot ceilings. Don’t bring your wallet — Sea Level uses your building I.D. as a debit card. This gleaming lair arrived via an inopportune 2006 elevator ride by Janet Martin, Emigrant’s chief administrative officer. “I said, ‘My God, this is gross. Then we realized we had asbestos so guys came in in white suits and did abatement and lo and behold! Over the years with piping they had built ceilings down and down — now I had twenty-foot ceilings.” So Martin got the nod to create a salubrious feeding station for tenants and their employees. “I love the ocean and scuba, so I picked two sand terrazzo colors for the floor, and walls are blue glass made to go lighter and lighter and lighter,” says Martin. “For the ceiling we came up with fixtures behind barriers on one- to three-foot heights like the bubbles when you’re scuba diving.”

Mark Thomas Amadei, one of the co-owners of Chelsea money machine Cafeteria, has been looking for a downtown location for a long time. Now he has finally found it. This fall, he plans on opening Delicatessen on the corner of Prince and Lafayette Streets, in the space which for 80 years housed Buffa’s luncheonette.

About six weeks after its move south to the old Port Authority at 111 Eighth Avenue, Google's New York office finally has a cafeteria. (Don't worry, sympathetic searchers, the staffers' free lunch had been catered before this week.)

So what do you serve hungry programmers? Our mole slipped us an excerpt from Wednesday's inaugural menu.