Praying Mantis

While I'm pontificating about places to eat in Freddie, and since I was there this evening, I have to say I really like the Praying Mantis restaurant here in town. Having a place in town to pop in to and get a quick bowl of noodles and some tea almost makes this little burg seem cosmopolitan. They play good jazz music (not elevatorsmooth jazz, yuck) and the waitresses are very friendly, and chatty if you're there by yourself, which is nice.

Their menu is a bit on the lunch-heavy side, with nothing that's overly complex or large, but that's usually what I'm looking for anyway.

They even have the big bowls of cold noodles like that Vietnamese place in Montreal we went to that one time when we were there for the GP.

It's nice to see that they're still doing fairly good business after the initial honeymoon period most places get.