Dining out: Lunaberry
There are a couple of reasons for this, mostly related to the time of year. It's harder to bundle up and haul my toasty-warm self outside in the cold, dark night, which seems to start at about 5 p.m. these days. Also, I tend to dash out alone in the evenings to do Thanksgiving/holiday shopping, which kills a lot of possible dinner times. Besides which, thanks to the many obligations associated with this time of year, date night with my husband hasn't exactly been regular.
But we do manage to sneak out for lunch, and with only one kid in tow it's ALMOST a date. The frequency of lunches lately, however, has me thinking it might be good to outline the differences between lunch and dinner when dining out.
First, there's price. Many of your nicer, sit-down places raise prices at dinner (and, presumably, provide larger portions, though not always). Menus may be more extensive at dinnertime, and lunchtime staples like sandwiches may not be found on the evening menu.
Also, the ambience at some restaurants changes dramatically from day to night: from brisk, bright and businesslike to slowed-down, social and even romantic.
But in contrast to the groups of women and the occasional business person who stopped in for lunch, I'm picturing evenings of teens and twenty-somethings out on the town stopping in for dessert and coffee. Probably families drop in during the in both day and early evening for the healthy, kid-friendly food.
At lunch, my husband had the pineapple ham savory crepe, a flavor-filled combination of honey-cured ham, pineapple, bell peppers, onion, cheese and mango yogurt sauce. His wheat crepe was lightly crisped on the outside and neatly folded to keep in the fillings. I had the mango chicken crepe, a simpler but no less flavorful mix of chicken, mango, spinach, cheese and mango yogurt sauce.
We also tried a couple of dessert crepes. I wanted the crepe filled with orange, grapefruit, yogurt and powdered sugar, but it was not available. Instead, we had the "dark chocolate" crepe filled with oozy semi-sweet chocolate, bananas, strawberries and almonds; plus the "very berry" crepe with strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, yogurt and dark chocolate.
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