Day 31 - Neomonde

Today's attendees: Andrew, Bret, Matthew, Allen and the Reg. Neomonde is one of those restaurants that consistently serves good, quality food. Everyone in the group always has a good meal. Yet, I doubt that it's ever going to be a favorite of anyone's. Why is that? Not really sure. Perhaps it's that the place has no ambiance. It's just sort of there. It's got that whole bakery thing happening, but I don't know anyone that ever goes there FOR the bakery.

Now Matthew did order a pistachio pastry something or other (which makes me think that perhaps Goodberry's should be coming up soon...) and did enjoy it. Bret tried falafel for the first time and liked it. Reg had the chicken shawarma and raved about it.

One interesting note is that one of the power brokers of Raleigh, Greg Hatem, was having lunch with the Neomonde owners. Matthew recognized the guy and was wondering what was happening. Andrew's abilities to listen to the conversation at the table behind him meant there was no new info about downtown to be gleaned. Of course, the secret was already out.