Lunch at the Globe
I just had a very odd lunch at the Globe in Berlin, Md., an old movie theater that's been turned into a restaurant and bar. It's an interesting space, but it would really work better for dinner or late night, not lunch on a lovely spring day. It was very dark, with stairways and mezzanines that were sort of Escher-like.
I want to stop by the Tea by the Sea Tearoom later, so I ate light, a Thai peanut salad. For $9 I got a bowl of greens with grapes, dry-roasted peanuts, a lot of chow mein noodles, and a Thai peanut dressing.
I asked for bread with it, which turned out to be listed under appetizers: three pieces of cornbread for $3 or five for $5. It came with Grand Marnier butter, and when you spread the butter on, the general effect was like cornbread cake with Grand Marnier buttercream icing.
I want a Sofi's crepe.
Comments
Hmm ... one buck for one piece of bread. Was it worth it? Doesn't sound like it. And imagine I was just reading a Newsweek article on the "high cost of being a foodie." Here's the link: http://www.newsweek.com/id/134770
Posted by: Piano Rob | April 30, 2008 3:06 PM
My grandmother used to make cornbread because it was cheap and filling.
Posted by: Eve | April 30, 2008 4:11 PM
Cornbread is still probably still cheap to make. Its just now filling restaurant tills.
Posted by: Robert (the Single One) | April 30, 2008 4:47 PM
You can buy Jiffy muffin mix and get 6 muffins for 55 cents.
Posted by: Kitkat | April 30, 2008 4:48 PM
The Globe sounds like a switch on New York's legendary Thalia Cinema, probably the only movie house in the world where the orchestra sloped up toward the screen. That was because it had been converted from a restaurant-cum-speakeasy. But for art film fans, it was a magnet, featuring British, French and Italian classics that didn't play anywhere else. Almost made the sprained neck, sitting way back in your seat, peering up at the bedsheet-sized screen worth it.
Posted by: Michael A. Gray | April 30, 2008 5:53 PM
One of my bright ideas that I never got around to seriously considering was a combination movie theater and bistro-type restaurant that I wanted to call Dinner and a Movie.
Posted by: Rosebud | April 30, 2008 7:14 PM
The Newsweek article is correct, Piano Rob! I personally have gone from eating in "moderate" cost restaurants a couple times a week and "good" restaurants a time or two a month to staying in and cooking more and more. I have an ongoing personal nightmare of having to live on a diet of ground beef, macaroni and cheese and of course the ever popular Raman noodles so that I can put gas in my car!
Posted by: Joyce W. | April 30, 2008 7:40 PM
I'm stocking up on corn meal at current market prices, planning to sell the lot to an ethanol refinery when the price goes up to five bucks a box.
Posted by: jl | April 30, 2008 9:59 PM
Rosebud -- there had been something along your proposal in the Annapolis Cinema Grill, which had a full liquor license and tableside food service, although it wasn't exactly classic French bistro fare. It closed in 2005. I didn't get there, but friends said that it was fine if you didn't mind second-run movies and pizza.
Posted by: hmpstd | May 1, 2008 5:47 AM