The Bread & Roses

We attract a broad cross section of customers and host a variety of eclectic events each months including meetings, functions and parties in our Function or Garden Rooms which are available for hire.

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http://www.breadandrosespub.com

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Review: SO MANY Good (NEW!) Eats at The Plaza Restaurant in ...

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From its prime location at the Cinderella Castle end of Main Street, USA, to its elegant decor and moderately priced menu, The Plaza Restaurant is a truly great value.

(The Main Street Plaza Ice Cream Parlor is right next door!)

The mac isn’t particularly creamy, which is usually a requirement for really good mac and cheese, but the block-like serving is kind of a great vessel for the brisket and fried onions.

I feel like it was vanilla ice cream churned with peanut butter and served with chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and peanut butter/chocolate chips.

I feel like it was vanilla ice cream churned with peanut butter and served with chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and peanut butter/chocolate chips.

Restaurant Review: Texas French Bread - Food - The Austin Chronicle

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When we first reported on the planned transformation of Texas French Bread from a full service bakery to a farm-to-table bistro with a bakery component back in 2010, we were intrigued by the ambitious undertaking brothers Murph and Ben Willcott had set for themselves.

The infrastructure of the now-76-year-old building needed some attention; it would be necessary to create a new traffic pattern between the baking area and a full kitchen line that included a wood-fired grill and hood systems; and TABC regulations required that the bathrooms be upgraded before they could apply for a very desirable beer and wine license.

You can't go wrong at breakfast or brunch here, what with expertly made dishes featuring local eggs with yolks of brilliant orange complemented by house breads – think eggs Benedict on ciabatta ($15), Grand Marnier French toast ($10), a spinach and chèvre omelet ($10) paired with fluffy banana walnut pancakes ($10), or a gluten-free buckwheat crêpe ($15) with ham, Swiss cheese, and an egg.

Our group of six decided to celebrate Bastille Day at Texas French Bread and quickly found ourselves surrounded by like-minded diners.

Now is not the time for Texas French Bread to forget to "dance with who brung you."

Restaurant review: Superba Food + Bread superbly opens up ...

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To really appreciate Superba Food + Bread, which is the latest restaurant to open in The Point in El Segundo, you’ve got to get there early enough to watch them open the garage-style doors in the front.

The Snackbar was followed by the first Superba Food + Bread on Lincoln, also in Venice, where the menu is far more Cal-Eclectic/New American, though still with some tasty Italian touches.

Show up for breakfast (or as the menu too cutely refers to it, “Breakfasty”) and you’ll find yourself surrounded by pastries; this could just as well be Superba Bread + Food.

(“Levain” is sourdough starter, for those who are French toast made using buttery croissants; a breakfast sandwich with a sunny side up egg, linguica sausage and braised kale (!)

Come back for dinner (which is not “Dinnery,” PTL), and there’s still lots of good bread — the menu begins with “Charred Thick Cut Bread” spread with smoked butter and Maldon Salt.

Atlanta restaurant review: Bread & Butterfly

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A good omelet is only made by someone who has made many mediocre omelets, who has persevered and learned the subtle judgments of heat and flicks of the wrist that transform humble eggs into one of the purest expressions of French cooking technique.

At brunch, the restaurant serves scrambled eggs and cold-smoked trout over brioche toast and topped with a dollop of creme fraiche and capers.

In fact, I’ve found Bread Butterfly to be every bit as good at 8 a.m. as it is at 8 p.m. Anyone would be pleased with the flawless cappuccino and flaky croissants served at the pastry counter for breakfast, just as anyone who appreciates a good cocktail would enjoy a French 75 or Fitzgerald, an underappreciated classic served in a glistening cold coupe at the charming round cafe tables at dusk.

The cold-smoked trout showed up on points of brioche toast again at dinner, but this time, instead of creme fraiche and scrambled eggs, it was dressed with tarragon cream and shaved fennel.

At Bread Butterfly, you have all Butterfly   Overall rating: 3 of 4 stars   Food: French bistro   Service: casual but elegant   Best dishes: omelet, soft scrambled eggs and cold-smoked trout, burger, fries, croissants   Vegetarian selections: many   Price range: $-$$   Credit cards: all major credit cards   Hours: 7:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, 8:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturdays, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Sundays   Children: family-friendly   Parking: valet and paid garage   Reservations: not accepted   Wheelchair access: yes   Smoking: no   Noise level: moderate   Patio: yes   Takeout: yes   Address, phone: 290 Elizabeth St., Atlanta.

AJ's Press gratifies with meaty sandwiches on Mexican bread rolls ...

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In the span of about 14 months, AJ's Press has proven so popular a sandwich joint in Tampa that it's become the fourth highest-ranked restaurant in the U.S. of A. (according to those trusted arbiters of taste at Yelp).

After 30 years serving as a director for Brinker International (they own the Chili's franchise), owner Andy Hesman got with the husband-and-wife team who run AJ's Tampa – Greg Lynn (a good friend of his from the Chili's days) and Jill Lynn – to talk about a second location in Andy's neck of the woods.

A space opened up in the Train Depot Shoppes near the intersection of State Road 434 and Ronald Reagan Boulevard and, a few months later, hot-pressed sandwiches were being served to Longwood's fortunate sons and daughters.

The jalapeño-bacon hush puppies we were graciously handed while waiting to place our order were but a taste of the gratification to come, primarily in the form of pressed sandwiches on Mexican bolillo and telera rolls, the latter being the bread of choice for Mexican tortas.

The rolls are procured from Tortilleria La Mexicana, a restaurant/panaderia on West Oak Ridge Road near John Young Parkway, and they measure up – crackly crust, soft in the middle, and weighty enough to hold the porky mélange of smoky ham, smokier Cantimpalo chorizo and slow-roasted pork in AJ's Cuban ($7.49; $9.49 large).

Daily Bread: Georgian Bread and Cuisine Reviewed – Philadelphia ...

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If you never take chances, if you never try something new, if you never move outside your bubble, you can be fooled into thinking that Center City, that Philly, that everywhere has become recursive, repetitive, with menus like infinite Fibonacci spirals constantly copying successes and eliminating risk.

A Georgian bread football filled with cheese and raw egg.

With a friend who used to translate for the Department of Defense backing me up via iPhone and my Cold War Bond-villain wife riding shotgun, we found Georgian Bread and Cuisine.

It arrived with a raw egg in the center, and what you do is mix it fast, while the chunky, curded farmer cheese inside the bread is still hot as lava, so that the whole mess becomes clotted and creamy and delicious.

The khinkali were last to the table: Georgian soup dumplings stuffed with beef and pork and spices, the thick dough bodies heavy with broth, each the size of a fist, and a hard knob on top that you use like a handle.

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