Dull, but delightful

Solution 1:

Possibly 'Anodyne'

The OED gives

  1. Having the power of assuaging pain

  2. fig Soothing to the mind or feelings.

and adds a Draft Addition dated March 2007 of

Unlikely to provoke a strong response; innocuous, inoffensive; vapid, bland.

It seems to me that in common use and in the situation you suggest the meaning would be somewhat of a mash up of the figurative and draft additional definitions, bland and unexciting, but producing a beneficial mental effect.