Now I remember why I think the BakeHouse is full of itself
A friend requested my assistance in finding some items at Goodwill, so I got out for a couple of hours, this afternoon.
Alas, my Golden Touch failed us, as we struck out at both stores. (We also stopped on the way back to pick up my new nebulizer, but I realized that I'd grabbed the wrong papers and left my prescription at home. Bummer.)
We decided to console ourselves with hot cocoa and something to eat at the BakeHouse. It was after 3:30, and I hadn't eaten lunch, so I thought something more than pastry would be in order.
They were advertising their stromboli standwiches - "made with fresh baked baguettes" - so I decided to go for one.
For $3.50, what I GOT was something about the size of a smushed breadstick from the Olive Garden - only about half as long! It didn't even have enough filling for the sliced edges of the bread to separate, and I finished it in about five bites.
A freaking Hot Pocket has about three times the substance of that "stromboli", and I could get four of them for what I paid.
And as for it being on a "baguette"... who the hell taught these people how to make baguettes? I'm sure no respectable French person would even consider that a baguette. Maybe a baguette that had fallen behind the refrigerator for two months and shriveled up to a third of its original circumference and had all of the texture squooshed out of it...
And their hot chocolate was about twice as expensive and nowhere near as tasty as the kind you can get over at Rachel's Cafe. At least Rachel's uses actual chocolate to make theirs, not just Sysco syrup from a can. (I'd thought the cocoa had tasted kind of bland, and then I got to the bottom of the cup, there was all the syrup.)
So, I spent nearly eight bucks - and I was left highly unsatisfied and feeling rather twitchy from having drunk straight generic chocolate syrup.
Alas, my Golden Touch failed us, as we struck out at both stores. (We also stopped on the way back to pick up my new nebulizer, but I realized that I'd grabbed the wrong papers and left my prescription at home. Bummer.)
We decided to console ourselves with hot cocoa and something to eat at the BakeHouse. It was after 3:30, and I hadn't eaten lunch, so I thought something more than pastry would be in order.
They were advertising their stromboli standwiches - "made with fresh baked baguettes" - so I decided to go for one.
For $3.50, what I GOT was something about the size of a smushed breadstick from the Olive Garden - only about half as long! It didn't even have enough filling for the sliced edges of the bread to separate, and I finished it in about five bites.
A freaking Hot Pocket has about three times the substance of that "stromboli", and I could get four of them for what I paid.
And as for it being on a "baguette"... who the hell taught these people how to make baguettes? I'm sure no respectable French person would even consider that a baguette. Maybe a baguette that had fallen behind the refrigerator for two months and shriveled up to a third of its original circumference and had all of the texture squooshed out of it...
And their hot chocolate was about twice as expensive and nowhere near as tasty as the kind you can get over at Rachel's Cafe. At least Rachel's uses actual chocolate to make theirs, not just Sysco syrup from a can. (I'd thought the cocoa had tasted kind of bland, and then I got to the bottom of the cup, there was all the syrup.)
So, I spent nearly eight bucks - and I was left highly unsatisfied and feeling rather twitchy from having drunk straight generic chocolate syrup.