Out to Lunch! 08-03-10

Out to Lunch. Ladies who Lunch. Let's have Lunch. It has become a meal that I enjoy eating out. Usually, if I know I am going to eat lunch out, I skip breakfast and plan a light supper. I have gotten into the habit of lunching out if I have an early 'doctoring' appointment - best to go fasting, just in case a visit to the vampire is required. But even if it is a dental appointment or a session with the physical therapist, I generally plan to eat brunch, or lunch, out.

This is the Kimmie's cafe on Glassell St. near the Circle of Orange (called a roundabout or traffic circle in some parts of the country/world) in the Historic Downtown area of the City of Orange. It is just down the street from "Paris in a Cup" where both the Book Group and the Victorian Tea Society ladies enjoyed tea recently. The original Kimmie's Cafe is near the Fullerton Airport and the second location, the one I have frequently most in the past few years, is on Brea Blvd in Brea. Since this location in Orange opened several months (maybe a year?) ago, Kimmie (a real person) has opened another, larger place in Anaheim/Yorba Linda near the Kaiser Permanente facility. Maybe she is building an empire! At any rate, I have always been pleased with the simple food and the attentive service, so I go back and also tell my friends about it. One day this past week I visited the vampire and then enjoyed blueberry pancakes w/scrambled eggs and bacon. It was delicious and I enjoyed people watching from my table in the front window. If I ever knew just when I would be done doctoring I would invite someone to meet me and we could get caught up with each other's news over brunch.

Just one door away on the corner of Glassell and Almond is Orange Cycle, a business that has held its own for many years. I don't know when they built and decorated this building, but I vividly remember the first time I saw it. I wondered what bells with weird clappers had to do with bicycles! But, after some contemplation, it dawned on me that these were bicyclists depicted from above! I suppose if I ever watched bicycle races I would have understood immediately.

I think whoever designed it was very clever and I always enjoy looking at such a great graphic. I adore the red bike (attached to the pillar) with the whitewalls - waaay kewl. It would have made someone king of the hill in the 50s.

I probably should have said in yesterday's post that I am the one holding the two doggies. I sometimes forget that people are so accustomed to seeing me in a hat that they don't always recognize me without one. One day I took my hat off in a workshop because I was so overheated and a friend of some 20+ years looked at me and said, "My God, I wouldn't have know it was you - I have never seen you without a hat." So, if I want to be incognito I just need to not wear a hat, no need to put a brown bag over my head!