mobileCategory: artisan bread
11/21/05 01:45 - ID#34090
Left wanting more by Panera Bread
I am a bread connoisseur. I love all things about bread. Organic milled flour, unique starters, and stone baking ovens to name a few.
My favorite local bakery of all time was Flour Power on Elmwood, where the current location of Spot Coffee and New World Record is now.
The best money I have ever spent is getting a true 5-pound loaf of French sourdough bread here overnight from the bakery. I will be doing this in the near future again.
So in my quest to find a local bakery who could offer up an equal experience for a 5-pound French sourdough Miche bread, I found Panera Bread in Amherst.
Upon entering this fine establishment, I was enthralled at their display. I thought that 'yes, I found a store who can give me true French sourdough'.
Negative. I asked for a 'miche' which means a full 5 pound loaf of bread, and initially I thought I did receive just that. The display 'miche' loaf was truly artisan, and was full size.
However, the weak ass loaf that I received was a half loaf, and not even sourdough.
Panera Bread, I love your store and your facilities, but PLEASE offer up a true sourdough French bread.
My favorite local bakery of all time was Flour Power on Elmwood, where the current location of Spot Coffee and New World Record is now.
The best money I have ever spent is getting a true 5-pound loaf of French sourdough bread here overnight from the bakery. I will be doing this in the near future again.
So in my quest to find a local bakery who could offer up an equal experience for a 5-pound French sourdough Miche bread, I found Panera Bread in Amherst.
Upon entering this fine establishment, I was enthralled at their display. I thought that 'yes, I found a store who can give me true French sourdough'.
Negative. I asked for a 'miche' which means a full 5 pound loaf of bread, and initially I thought I did receive just that. The display 'miche' loaf was truly artisan, and was full size.
However, the weak ass loaf that I received was a half loaf, and not even sourdough.
Panera Bread, I love your store and your facilities, but PLEASE offer up a true sourdough French bread.
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I, too, love bread. All kinds. When i was a small child, it was all i would eat. My mom would make me a sandwich, and off would come the meat and lettuce and i would attempt to scrape away the mustard to be left with the best part. The bread.
When (e:Uncutsaniflush) and i lived in Knoxville, we both went to Panera Bread a few times. Perhaps it was our northern roots, but we were both disappointed in everything we saw or ate there.
I found the soft or southern wheats they used for the breads we tried to be less hearty or flavourful than the harder northern wheats i am used to up here in this neck of the world. Panera bread is a somewhat southern chain, having started in Missouri, perhaps more midwestern, but when i saw there was a location in this area, i assumed it would have the same flat tasteless breads the Knoxville location had.
I wonder what kind of wheats the locations here use? And if they are the same chain wide?