Waiting to possibly order an iPhone.
Ran around a bit myself earlier today, some of the highlights being the souvlaki I had for lunch augmented by the restaurant’s impeccable salad bar, and two bottles of Trocadero plus a nice baguette I bought for later. Probably not as fancy as anything from the famed
@Scepticalscribe French bakery, but my store’s local bakery is not too shabby.
Sounds delicious. Souvakli; yum.
Ah, yes.
The French bakery (French owned, French staffed) - it also includes a small café, with the characteristic handful of tables outside - is the sort of place that some of the award winning (French) restaurants in the region (okay, most of them have been shut since the advent of Covid) used to get their bread from. That is good enough for me.
Plus: Staff in the locality (local clothes shops, the cheesemonger's) all swore by it for coffee, cakes, and, yes, bread. So, my initial recommendations were all word of mouth, which I, in turn, also pass on.
And, more recently, when he was down for a visit a few weeks ago, Decent Brother - on my recommendation - had a coffee and baguette sandwich (ham and cheese, I think), while sitting at one of the small tables and cane chairs (very French) outside the bakery & café, and was stunned by how extraordinarily good (i.e. how French) it was.
Actually, the French bakery is so good, and so well known, that, surprisingly often, some of the breads are sold out by 9 a.m. (it opens at eight).
Thus, I usually phone in advance; sometimes, they still have bread left, which I may ask them to hold for me, and I will head in to collect it; other times, more often, they are sold out, and then, I simply place an order for the following day. Today's order (campagne baguette and rye bread) was already nicely bagged, ready and waiting for me, when I turned up to collect it.
). Now we're queued up for AHS, and an early bedtime
