Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Grand, indeed

PJ, Yurika, & I go on a lunch-search in downtown Eau Claire (population: about 60,000).

We find a local foods co-op, buy a few snacks, and ask if there are any good lunch places nearby. They send us around the corner to Grand Ave Cafe, a tiny place with homemade soups, muffins baked in-house, and (much to Yurika's consternation) lots of coffee.

It's around 11:00 on a Tuesday, but the place is packed to capacity - families with babies, middle-aged ladies in Halloween costumes, retirees trying to out-chat each other over bottomless cups of joe.



I like that.












Yu & I both get the tomato-veg soup.


It's loaded with al dente veg and all perfectly seasoned.












PJ gets the chicken & wild rice soup and an orange muffin that had emerged from the oven minutes before.















Is there anyone who doesn't like a freshly baked muffin? No, there isn't. And if there is, that person needs to be slapped.

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