Lunch Date

One day last week, Mary Lynn, a friend from our trivia team, invited us to lunch-she thought we needed to be exposed to a few places outside of Lititz, but really just a few miles away. The first place she introduced us to is a small restaurant that serves Puerto Rican food called The Home Plate Restaurant - Spanish Cuisine on Manheim Ave. in Lancaster. What a lunch! We had baked chicken with beans and rice. The chicken was so moist and seasoned to perfection. And you can’t beat the price-$5.00!

We then proceeded to another little find of Mary Lynn’s. La Dolce Vita Courthouse Bakery on Duke Street. It so reminded us of the great Italian bakeries back home in Rhode Island- full of glossy fruit tarts, éclairs, cannoli’s, every Italian cookie imaginable, gorgeous cakes, and in one case some fantastic looking antipasto salads and sandwiches so pretty, they should be in a magazine. We were still pretty full from lunch so we were able to walk out with just a small sampling of éclairs and cookies. And speaking of cookies, Mary Lynn broke out the pignoli cookies on the ride home- let’s just say we may never eat another store packaged cookie again. This is a soft cookie full of almond flavor covered in pine nuts. I think next time we should go to the bakery BEFORE we have lunch...