The Restaurant Rule of Good Bread equaling Bad Food

Tried out the new incarnation of Café des Lettres the other night with a friend. Used to be a great place, casual, steady, light but substantial Swedish fare, and sometimes nothing else seemed so right as that menu.

New owners have sadly remodeled into a faux clubby library feeling without the slightest patina, removing all trace of casual warm atmosphere. Servers are pleasant, but the food 'immangeable', not worth eating, better to go hungry. But my friend Eric had a feeling before the meal came, when we both commented on how delicious the bread was. Eric's maxim, confirmed unfortunately by Café des Lettres is, 'the better the bread, the worse the meal' . Remember it!