Guilder is one of those full service shops that also serves a limited menu of breakfast and lunch dishes, and alcohol, as well as pastries and hot drinks.   It’s located in a stylish, recently constructed two-story brick building on what was a parking lot, and Guilder uses both stories.  We found a lot to like, including the grand interesting views from upstairs, the lighting, and the shop’s variety of tables.  In an era of simple designs, though, we still have some trouble with blank walls, and believe some visual variety – maybe via wall hangings – would be make Guilder even homier, as would a variety seats, some of the soft variety.

Because Guilder is only 1/2 mile from our Sunday starting point in NE, we three took a circuitous route through the Dekum Triangle and NE Alberta before reaching our destination.  Discussion topics included M’s new car key-fob not working, D’s experience of episodes where batteries have had an extra short life or have not worked  from the get-go; how some batteries have to breathe; M’s frustrations with Eveready customer service department; H’s wife P’s success scoring tickets at the box office for Hamilton after a 4 hr wait that started at 7 a.m., while most who tried to buy them on line were frustrated by the website crashing;  and H’s saga of of the earlier key-fob technology when you could lock your car with the engine still running, as H once did in the Canadian Rockies, and his self-flagellation while waiting to be rescued by the Chevrolet rental car’s roadside assistance program.

2393 Fremont         http://www.guildercafe.com