“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
The most remarkable thing about this corner bakery is the lighting. It follows the idea of a corner bakery one step further- actually being on a corner, with the windows to prove it.
The ceiling is made up of wooden beams with barn-like lanterns that are hardly necessary with all that light. Perhaps it’s because they’re open until dinner, when the windows give a view of the flashing lights driving by on the corner of Rio and 29th street.
The food itself is rich and is for the rich, with both quail and odd vegetables made to be appetizing on the menu. I recommend the French Toast, especially if it’s cold outside and you’re looking for some extra padding for the winter. Really anything with bread is to be trusted but make sure to say ‘baguette’ when you’re ordering to keep up with the Parisian feel, which they really pull off rather well.
But on a normal day when funds are low or cholesterol is high, you might simply get a cup of coffee (bottomless might I add) and look around at the right-brained and left- brained array of people that choose Texas French Bread. You might overhear some conversations here and there, but all will be light-hearted and there will be music playing so that instead of somber thoughts you are left with lifted spirits in my preferred “clean, well-lighted space”*.
Wistfully,
Yours
*”A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”- EH 1933 in Winner Take Nothing
~what I’m reading: Howl – Allen Ginsberg~
wistfully,yours 