Starbucks

This is what happens when your life falls apart. It's a grande chai latte half skim half soy (thank EWS for the recommendation) and it's awesome, but it's not lunch, even with a banana.

Stash it or trash it? Stash it for a rainy day.

Starbucks Coffee
34th and Walnut Streets
Philadelphia, PA

Artisserie Chocolate Cafe

Today (Valentine's day) I made the mistake of attempting to power-lunch at a bakery. Who knew (everyone except me)? I ordered a smoked turkey panini on wheat bread with guacamole, tomato, and maybe some cheese. S.D.B., who was nice enough to stand in line for me while I transcribed interviews at the furious pace of any over-commited American attempting to cram too much into one hour at a "French" cafe, ordered the chicken salad sandwich, which was actually tuna. I don't know how much any of this cost, but I do know that it was cheaper than the three dozen chocolate covered strawberries the overeager skinny guy ahead of Delaney ordered. Skinny guy — hope you got lucky.

Stash it or trash it? Trash it. Duh. It's Valentines Day.

Artisserie Chocolate Cafe

34th and Walnut Streets

Philadelphia, PA 19104

P.S. I really do like Valentines Day. I'm serious.

Cosi (sur la route)

Sometimes you gotta do what's been done. As a Northerner, Panera's usually more my style, but the bread at Cosi's better (go with whole grain--its got the goods and it tastes more legit), and the Signature Salad's not too shabby either. Its got field greens, gorgonzla (I went cheese-less), grapes, apples and pistachios which are awesome in a salad, and the vinaigrette is solid; plus its a good one on the go, which is what I am right now. What's up Manhattan?

Cosi
30th Street Station
Philadelphia, PA

*Note: This post was intended for 02/11/10, but blogger kept responding to me in German, so it took me awhile to get the whole mobile thing going. Meine Entschuldigung.

**Trashing Cosi is like deleting your booty-call contacts. Don't do it. It seems like a good idea now but you'll regret it when you're starving and everything else is closed.

Thanks to an outrageous lack of time to do everything (also known as college) this blog will now feature shorter posts coming to you daily for lunch