A few hours away

Denise and Linda and I escaped for a couple hours this week.  We decided to ride the light rail into downtown and have lunch!  It was fun, you always feel like you went somewhere different doing that.  It was fun to hang out in the downtown too, very trendy little stops we made!

 We went down Central to Pane Bianco which is a little hole in the wall.  I wish I would have taken a photo of the outside of these 2 places, if you don't know what they are you would never go inside!  Plain little front, rather run down and then you enter and realize, what is that wonderful smell of bread baking.  Crazy decorating of antiques and things you might have thrown in the trash.... a big chunck  of concrete was suspended in one corner as a shelf! We had wonderful sandwiches, sitting at long tables, the lunch crowd just joins you at the tables and it was FULL by the time we left.  A crowd standing in the outer part for take out and ready to eat at the picnic tables, and there was wonderful loaves of bread wrapped in brown paper  with the end poking out to buy and take home...we did!

 Next door is Lux.  This is the sign, you can barely see the name on there maybe 3 inches tall, it's a coffee shop full of people too!  An open door off to one side and you'd never know it was there, but the downtown crowd sure does!  Very eclectic seating, looks like it dropped from the 60's with old couches to sit on.  We got in line and got a whoopee pie to go, it was fun just experiencing the great things that Downtown Phoenix has stashed in unknown spots!