I met a new friend downtown for lunch today, in a break from my regular routine of having lunch in my office on campus. Sort of a celebration of not having any concerts today to have to worry about, which is certainly rare in mid-October. But mostly just a pleasant and convenient excuse to break outside of my box and play hooky for a little bit. It turned into a three-hour sojourn. It felt like a Friday. It still feels like Friday. But it's not. It's Thursday.
Anyways.
Fearless? Well it was a good sandwich. It should have feared me, because I ate it right down. And it's all set in a gentrified area called Richmond Grove (at least that's what Apple Maps calls it) set around S Street and 16th.
And the eatery is in a line of shops of various wares, set at the base of probably overpriced but hip-looking lofts with full-wall windows. None of which was there, I'm sure, the last time I strolled through this area. I was just going to Safeway then, and don't even recall offhand what I was doing in the area, but back then the place seemed quite a bit more...dilapidated.
In any case, it's quite a trendy location now, and has several more establishments of a food nature in the surrounding lines of freshly erected buildings which I might perhaps find some time to explore. Someday.
I eventually found my way back to work, about an hour and a half past the time I had listed on a little post-it note on my door. I...don't think anyone noticed. Or cared. So in the end it's just an anecdote of a story of a day in the life of this guy in his upper-middle-forties.
Oh yeah - the sandwich I indulged in today was the Prosciutto and Chicken on ciabatta bread. Washed down with their Rose Lemonade. Next time, perhaps the steak. And the shop's mascot is a blue cow, emblazoned on their website and immortalized in life-size statue form outside their main entrance. And their slogan? "Where Happy is the Main Ingredient".
Well, it was a happy day with happy company.
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