La Restaurant Depot
January 7, 2010 by Puna
Filed under Food & Cooking
There is no better way to start the year than with a trip to Restaurant Depot.
I was very excited about all the bulk things you can get there, but what I was really looking for were dinner plates. Restaurant style dinner plates. The kind that you can put in the dish washer a thousand times and would still wear well. The kind that you can put into a warming drawer and they would be nice and hot when you serve them to your dinner guests. They would be tough and sturdy. I love fine china too but I wanted an every day plate.
Neighbor Bill is my favorite man who is not my husband. I say that because of this…
Neighbor Bill spent a half an hour searching for plates and soup bowls for me. He dug through piles and piles of boxes.
He patiently waited as I spend ten agonizing minutes on trying to decide between the 11 1/4 plates and the 11 1/2 inch plates. Really, they were a quarter inch apart.
Can you tell which is which?
All the while Neighbor Beth and the husband were looking at food. They were talking chicken breasts.
The husband showed me this huge hunk of cheese. I mean big! I made him put it back.
We brought along a few more neighbors as well. While the rest of the world was quietly sleeping, our neighborhood was hanging out in a warehouse full of food. It’s what we do for fun.
We then brought our loot home and had a great dinner…it IS what we do for fun!
See more food fanatics over at Design by Gollum. I’m glad not I’m not the only one.
What a neat store! I love the shelf of cheese! I think I could probably spend a few hours there.
I loved this post. This reminded me of a No Reservations episode. I would have a ball here.
I sure wish we had a store like that around here! So, which size plate did you get? They look very different in size from the photo. Maybe it’s the perspective. The 11 1/2 looks huge!
I think your neighborhood is sweet…
If I lived in your neighborhood I’d have been there as well. I love the search for food and the company of committed foodies. I know you all had a blast. Have a great New Year and enjoy Foodie Friday. I hope you’ll come and visit my site.
Oh my word! Which plates did you go with. I think I would have picked the larger ones. I should get smaller ones though so I put less food on them though!
I would love a place like that! I could spend hours!
I saw you lived in Huntington.
I lived there most of my life!
I so want to live in your neighborhood. Most of my neighbors are fuddy-duddies. We can barely get them to come for a cookout!
Is it open to the public or do you have a special in from a neighbor? I would love to check it out – that’s my kind of store!