Dale Rice has had a passion for food since his mother let him stand on a kitchen chair to stir the cake batter and then lick the bowl at the tender age of 5. Restaurant critic and wine writer for the Austin American-Statesman, he has been writing about the local food scene for the last 12 years. He lives in South Austin with 1,500 cookbooks and a 100-year-old wagon wheel for a pot rack.
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2006 > October > 04 > Entry
By Dale Rice
| Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 12:20 PM
The area’s first Panera Bread bakery-cafe will be opening soon, and I envision it developing a legion of loyal child-fans who encourage their parents to dine there frequently — if other kids are like my 7-year-old niece, Jamie, who adores the Panera near her home in Rochester, N.Y. Her favorite breakfast is a bagel — one half toasted, the other half plain — and a chocolate brownie. (Hmmm, throw in a latte and that does sound pretty good.) The local Panera, scheduled to open in November, will be in the Mira Vista shopping center at 2805 Bee Cave Road in Rollingwood. It is the first of 15 locations earmarked for the Austin and San Antonio markets for the national chain, which has more than 900 locations across the United States.
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By Jenni
October 12, 2006 05:52 PM | Link to this
The shop at William Cannon in 2003 was an Atlanta Bread, not a Panera Bread.
By Deb
October 11, 2006 04:26 PM | Link to this
Dale responds: That’s one I do not recall.
Wasn’t there a Panera Bread on West William Cannon a few years back? Seems to me it was open about 9 months & then closed it’s doors.
I believe it was in the same strip center as the now departed (sadly) Bistro 88.