A fancy French Restaurant? Lunch today with my friends Cindy and Wes




Cindy, Wes and I enjoyed being together for lunch today at Brassiere Honore.

 No, it's not a fancy French place, instead it is the Cafe within the humongous Whole Foods market at University Parkway and Honore Ave in Sarasota.

 Wes and I had the Lamb Sausage sandwich (in a baguette), with Frites.

 I was not impressed. The sandwich had all too much baguette, and all too little sausage (which itself was very dry, and had perhaps had but a passing acquaintance with lamb).

 The frites were good!

 Food aside, it was so good to be with these good friends.

 I am not too fond of Whole Foods.  I believe that their success has been a triumph of marketing over substance - a place for the professionally liberal middle classes, but not for the hard scrabble and hard working working classes.

 The Company has now been acquired by AMAZON  -  this gives me pause for rueful thought.  (The University/Honore store even has a special check out for Amazon Prime members, get that!)

 About the somewhat pretentious name: "Brasserie Honore".

 Honore  (on a ray) Ave is named for Bertha Honore Palmer a remarkable woman and a founding mother of Sarasota. It's worth reading more about her here:


http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20100117/a-century-ago-bertha-palmer-changed-the-region?start=2


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