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| - for the longest time I thought this was a bread store. Worst, it's a carb loving persons NIGHTMARE ON wider HEM-STREET.
The menu is a selection of soups, pastries, sandwhiches/paninis on focacia breads and more.
Penera offers a wide variety of flavours to spice up your soup and sand-which experience.
If you are here for a light lunch then you can take advantage of their half combo special. Where you get a small soup and half a sand-which for about $3. So you can try out the different types of sanwhichs/soups they have.
the regular 'combo' comes with soup, sand-which and a side of baguette or chips or apple. At-least there's partial promotion to a healthy meal?
there are fountain drinks but you can get green tea lemonade which is refreshingly delicious. I'm a huge green tea fan so this beverage was a nice sidekick for the heavy meal.
The girl at the register wasn't as helpful and didn't really know much about the items on the menu. This is a bad sign for any first time customers. Considering I ended up with 2sides of baguette (and i assumed she meant she hadn't heard the first time) . Of course, she could be new.
Soup:
the cheddar brocc is the best seller and the minute you taste this creamy broth , you will have the unprecedented "ahhh" moment. There isn't the regular chunks of broccoli but you get the odd bits here and there. The soup is very rich with a creamy consistency so a small order should be more than enough.
Sand-which:
Frontega Chicken on Focaccia - I normally prefer Focaccia but you can get it on Ciabatta too. It comes with smoked pulled chicken that you can taste throughout the panini. Slices of tomatoes, onions,fresh basil all melted with mozzarella cheese and a chipotle mayo. The mixture of all the flavours gets very oily but teach messy bite is not far from delicious. The Bread is quite thick so I wasn't too fond of the crunch but the chipotle mayo made up for it. I ordered the full panini so the portion was more than enough. On top of that, the baguette peace that comes on the size is just more carbs than I know what to do with.
Once you are done ordering, you get a gps gadget that blinks while you find seating. The staff use it to locate you and bring your food out when it's ready. They rarely come around to check if every things good, which I would've seriously used.
Overall, I enjoyed the luxury afternoon lunch and have mentally checked it as a place to treat someone to a fancy lunch. i.e business lunch? Parent in laws in town - lunch?
On my way out, I gave into temptation and tried a cookie from their baked goods section (which just so happens to be cleverly presented right at the front). I decided on 1 chocolate chip cookie - Don't let the '1' fool you , it was a large cookie. And with the largeness, came gooey chocolate chips that made me remember how truly underrated a classic choc. chip cookie is. It passed my poke test which is usually a surefire way to tell the best quality of dough. The test is 3 pokes to the cookie with your pinky finger.
If there's a slight dent to the dough but the poke to the chocolate part wasn't gooey it's perfect- The dough was out for a bit but keeps it's partially milky texture and the chocolate wasn't pre packaged when they baked it. So it cools faster than the dough.
If the dent is super soft and the chocolate melts to the wrapping - then it needs to be sat out for a little while longer and sometimes it's poor quality of chocolate.
If no poke can be made and you can see cracks on it when the only kind of cracks you should see on a cookie are to ginger cookies - say 'NO' to cheap cookie dough! ( hey! that rhymes) ^_^
I was here for lunch so it was mostly older couples and a few students using the free wifi. There's tons of seating but it fills up fast. Especially the seats by the windows. I highly recommend smaller portions since the prices are higher than what you'd expect for a soup/sandwhich.
xoxo
M.
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