To start the year off right we went down to a restaurant we had been to several years ago. It is called Martha's Bloomers which is just outside the small town of Navasota, about 15 miles south of Bryan. You can look it up on the web at http://www.marthasbloomers.com/ and is named for two felines, Martha and Bloomers.

The human staff said that the cats run the place and so here you go with Martha meeting us in the driveway to escort us to the door. And then Martha (actually a male cat) shows us to our seat in the tea room.

Once seated we started with raspberry tea ... of course no wine on Sunday before noon in Texas ...

Then we enjoyed a wonderful lunch prepared in a very gormet style. I had the chicken salad in a wrap and Jo-Anne had the quiche loraine, and both had the tomato bisque soup. All absolutely top of the line fresh, neatly presented, and service superb! You can actually see the minced tomato in the soup ....

And to finish the cat theme all the windows are etched with cat images walking on a picket fence. A really neat place well worth returning to.