If you work in the Financial District and are tired of waiting in long lines for an average, overpriced lunch to bring back to your cubicle (or office, if you’re lucky), Peter’s Delicatessen might be just what you need.

Peter’s may look like a renovated basement room from the ’70s, but don’t be deceived. The food is good, the prices are cheap, and if you want to eat at one of the five or six tables, you can — although more of the business seems to come from a steady flow of people stopping in for take-out, without a wait.

This is the kind of place where you can get a tuna ($3.95), hot-pastrami ($5.25), or club sandwich ($4.55). Subs offered include meatball, chicken parm, ham and cheese, and Italian, and range from $4.45 to $6.75. Peter’s also has fresh salads (chef’s salad/$5.45, Greek salad/$3.75), and a range of combination and "special" sandwiches. The New Yorker consists of corned beef, coleslaw, Swiss cheese, and Russian dressing ($5.75), while the Westender features roast beef, coleslaw, Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and Russian dressing ($4.75).

Even with all these options, the one item that seems to draw the crowd is the chicken kebab with rice and salad with feta dressing ($5.75). Just about every diner in the room has this dish in front of him or her, and one after another, take-out customers walk up to the counter and place an order for the it. Mediterranean-seasoned tender chunks of white chicken are skewered and cooked with red and green peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served over white rice (or spaghetti sauce, if you want), accompanied by a green salad with feta dressing, and with Syrian bread rolled on the side, it’s a break from the usual.

Peter’s Delicatessen, located at 71 Broad Street, in Boston, is open Monday through Friday, from 5:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Call (617) 426-8274.