Located in the Outer Richmond District of San Francisco on Balboa Street, this coffeehouse has been (bean?) a local favourite since the late 70’s. This is not really a “breakfast joint”, per se (and who is this “Percy” guy and why does everyone always reply to him?), but they do serve sandwiches, pastries, bagels, and the normal light breakfast stuff (again, “my 'blog, my rules”). It is only five blocks from my house, so I go there several times a month (their coffee is much better than anything I can ever brew). And they also have live music some weeknights and on the weekends, which is nice...
Their coffee is always first-rate. I had a cuppa their “House” blend, which is what they normally have a-brewin’. They do offer many different roasts for sale as they have their own roastery (which is not a real word, as my spell-checker is pointing out, but I am too lazy to type out “roasting room”) two doors down from the café. They don’t have a website for the coffeehouse, but here is a link to their “roastery”:
http://www.simplepleasurescoffee.com/info.html
For my breakfast repast this morning, I went with my standard “Bagel with Hummus and Veggies”. They make their own hummus weekly and it is excellent. The hummus is made by one of the baristas* there. It comes with a bagel (I chose “sesame” today) and assorted sliced/diced vegetables: red onions, black olives, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, and (not always) pepperoncini (and sometimes alfalfa sprouts). I know this might sound like a strange combination, but hummus on bagels is so much better than plain ol’ cream cheese ~ try it and you will never go back to that Philadelphia Brand® crap again. Paired with a good strong cuppa coffee, it is great. Also, never order this “To Go” as it has way too much stuff to make into a bagel sandwich ~ order it to eat there and enjoy while drinking their coffee.
Glen Bacon Scale Rating: Coffee - 7.0; Breakfast - 6.2 (I would score it higher if they used real sliced Καλαμάτα olives instead of the flavourless canned type; however, they do get extra points for having great homemade hummus.)
*(Do you think that some of these guys became baristas as they thought they would be training to practice Law in England?
Which brings up a whole lotta ~ as opposed to a little lotta ~ set of stupid questions:
If a coffee shop runs out of Half-and-Half, what would an optimist or a pessimist say?
Is it fair to teach your neutered dog the command “Come!”?
And, what would Scooby do?)
Again, the photographer should be taken out back and shot for his "quality" of photographs. (But at least it beats uploads from a mobular!)
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