Forgot to post last weekend...

Molded bread blue light specials...aisle 9.

I think K-Mart originated the in-store cafe...though it wasn't much of a cafe as it was a hot dog vendor and Icee machine. I was always so sketched out by the fact that K-Mart served food, yet in some weird way, I always craved an Icee...red or blue...those were your choices...take it or leave it. A few years later, Target started adding their version of the "cafe" to their stores. Again, I was highly mesmerized by the clientele that would be interested in eating over-the-top crappy food within a warehouse filled with the "cheap department store-we-sell-everything-you-can-imagine" smell.

I think it's because of this background that I've always been a little bit weirded out by cafes within stores. Even ones like Whole Foods...though it may also be the fact that a pack of vegan-vegetarian-made-from-who-knows-what gum can run you a solid $5 that intimidates me from stepping into that store.

I finally tried eating at a Fox & Obel cafe last night. Wow...this place was amazing....seriously, their food was unbelievable. I highly, highly recommend. And apparently at classy stores like this, they also have free wine tastings...careful...these guys are good....this particular vendor spewed out more varieties of grapes and locations in Italy within a minute, that I finally decided to purchase his wine just to make him stop making me feel dumber than an ant.

Luckily, it was good wine.

Go, eat at cafes in stores...they're good. Though, I didn't see an Icee machine.

-S