pane bianco, lux, borders

after my gym, jen, stu, syd, cameron, heather, marina & i made the trek out to central phoenix.

heather needed beans so a lux run was on the agenda. jen said she needed beans too and was up for a pane bianco try. this was the first for everybody but me so i was nervous and excited.

looking at the board, the market sandwich was lamb again! nice as heather and stu are lamb freaks. we got there a bit early so just to ensure we didn't miss out, i ordered 3 of the market sandwiches and a mozzerella, tomato & basil sandwich. jen and stu got there just as i'd finished ordering so jen came in and ordered the soppressata sandwich with aged provolone and olivida and the fococcia of the day with piave cheese and tomatoes (warmed of course).

stu, being mr. lamb, loved the market sandwich - being tender and flavorful. heather and i both thought it was very good but could have used something else - maybe some of that piave cheese to take it into the next realm? the soppressata sandwich was excellent as was the mozzarella, tomato and basil. for my own taste, i'll probably keep an eye out for meat version market sandwiches in the future with teh soppressata as a backup.

when we left we went back in to order some triple cream red XXX chese, another cream soda and the organic rice pudding. the rice pudding was awesome - possible taste of condensed milk??? yum. i will definitely be always ordering the rice pudding.

along with our lunch, we did order coffee's and of course our beans to go (ground espresso and drip). i had the typical velvet (always good). stu had a red eye (coffee with a shot of espresso) and jen and heather both had soy decaf lattes. all good.

ok so more errands followed.

then we ended up at borders for an errand. while i've had some excellent coffee shakes here in the past, i was a bit let down. the warmed white chocolate chip cookie did not disappoint as usual. superyum.

more errands. crash at home. try the triple cream cheese which was very good but a bit too blue-ish for what we wanted at that point, so finished the night off with 2 breakfast jacks and 2 cardboard tacos for both heather and i.