I spent a chunk of time this evening at the Panera Bread on NW Expressway in OKC. As I was writing the entry on Chipotle in a Panera, it occurred to me that I had not written about… Panera.
I do not remember where I first ate in a Panera, but I’ve been in them all over the country. They are one of the few places that I will go to just hang out. A couple weeks ago, I used a Panera in Ocala, FL to dry out after a VERY wet hike in a Florida thunderstorm. I have used one in Las Vegas to get critically needed information to an associate for an aircraft mod. I’ve sat in Paneras for telecons and video teleconferences, to read and send email, and to, well, eat.
I think that Paneras started in St. Louis. My very cute but sandwich loving roommate and I had our kids to St. Louis for a vacation a couple years ago, and we had a lunch in a St. Louis Bread Company, and we noticed that all the art and graphics and menus were the same, just the name changed from SLBC to PBC as you got outside the St. Louis metro area (for example, we stopped at a PB in Rolla.
I like the Smokehouse Turkey sandwich. I also like the potato soup. Panera has EXCELLENT iced tea – I have never had coffee-flavored or otherwise vile tea there.
Panera has some excellent dessert stuff. The Very Chocolate Brownie is really good, and the Chocolate Chippers cookies are also. I have had their muffins as well, they are very good.
Tags: dessert, Panera Bread, Restaurants, sandwiches, soup
1 July 2009 at 12:0 |
They make mushroom soup in the winter! I love mushroom soup and not many places serve it. Their turkey bacon bravo sandwich is excellent, and I love the asiago cheese bread. They do decent hot tea, and I like the pecan twists. Yum, love Panera, just wish it wasn’t so pricey!