DON'T RUN THROUGH THIS MAZE GETTING TO PREP & PASTRY

Another loser of a movie. This one was even worse than last week's The Drop because the acting was so bad. It was like a high school play gone awry. The name was The Maze Runner. The movie ended in a bald unsophisticated proclamation of sequels yet to come. Mercy!

The "plot" is contained in the title. Its about a group of kids who live in an enclosed by high stone walls area (all boys except toward the end of the film, a female character was introduced.) and to get out you have to go through a maze. Only everyone knows you can't make it through the maze and no one knows why they are there. Until our plucky lead actor decides he wants to try. Yawn. The special effects were so incredibly cheap.

This movie was preceded by a brunch with my friend Chris at Prep & Pastry which inhabits the recently departed Amelia Gray's Tea House or Shop. The food at that incarnation wasn't very good but way better than at P & P.

The place was crowded and noisy but we had a pretty good seat in the corner by the front door. We ordered the same thing; scrambled eggs, country potatoes and toast which came dry! So i had to ask for butter and they only have  black berry jam. Nothing was really hot and nothing was especially tasty.

We also shared a football of a croissant which was filled with raspberry, goat cheese, lime and honey. The croissant was a grenade of heavy dough: no lightness in that pastry heft. The filling was very good but there wasn't enough of it.

The service was good and friendly and efficient but not enough to tempt me to come back.