Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Small Business Revival? Psst...whateva...

One of the guys in our Men's Small Group Bible Study just moved here from San Antonio two months ago. He's been warming up to Houston. What he likes most about it is the amount of places we can go to eat. Houston never lacks in that department. He's always asking us to find different restaurants that he hasn't been, so we can have our study there. His prompting has also beckoned me to do the same around my office during the work week. I have my "usuals", but occassionally - time permitting - I will break out and find something different.

Long story short - I happen upon this great place called Camille's Sidewalk Cafe while doing some mid-day banking. They have awesome, spicy wraps. I also love their Apple Walnut Tuna sandwhich. I imagined it to be my great little, small, "Ma and Pop" place that I can support.

I schedule a lunch with a few of my buds yesterday and to give them directions I type in the shop's name under Google Maps. There are 4 in Houston alone!! Ugh, shattered dreams!!

I come to find out that this is some big chain across the US and even more shops internationally.
http://www.camillescafe.com/index.cfm?id=3

If it wasn't for the great menu, and even better Tropical Tea, I would never go back...

Seriously. You should try it!

1 comment:

JDaniels said...

I have been there; the food is absolutely delicious! Everyone must go check it out! Though it is a small business revival if you think about it, because each restaurant is locally owned and operated by a franchisee, which is usally a family or someone just tryin to live the American dream...