(give or take $29.25)
(No restaurant web-site available.)
I headed over to West Portal this morning fully intending on checking out Fresca, a Peruvian restaurant which looks to have a pretty interesting breakfast/"Brunch" menu; however, when I got over there they told me they did not open until 11:00am for "Brunch". They really need to update their on-line information as it shows that they open at 10:00am. When I got home, I checked with their other two locations (one on Fillmore Street and one on 24th Street) and they both stated that they are open on Saturdays and Sundays at 10:00am for "Brunch", so I might be checking out one of those locations in the future.
http://www.frescasf.com/
As I was already in the neighborhood (and had a legal, free parking spot, and didn't really feel like driving elsewhere, and was already hungry), I decided I might as well eat at another restaurant there. The line was out the door at Squat & Gobble (see 'blog-entry from March 5th, 2011) just across the street, so I walked down to the next block and ate at Cafe For All Seasons (as far as I can tell the "Cafe" is sans accent aigu on their window and menu logos).
Cafe For All Seasons has a decent enough menu from which to choose for breakfast. There were a few omelette choices I could have gone with ("with which I could have gone" sounds a bit ~ and not the 12.5¢ type ~ hokey), but I decided on the Waffle of the Day ~ Special Orange Buttermilk Waffle with sliced bananas, fresh strawberry (sic ~ singular) topped with whipped cream and served with a side of pure maple syrup. I also had a side order of pan fried potatoes (that would simply be the "home fried" variety, Mrs. Huneycutt) and a glass of freshly-squeezed orange juice (without any bananas or even a singular strawberry in it).
This was a very large Belgian Waffle** piled high with lots of fruit and whipped cream. Now I didn't re-form all of the strawberry pieces that were on top, but I am sure there were at least two or three entire strawberries there, not just a single strawberry. I think some Mandarin oranges, pineapples, and bananas might have been a better taste combination… ooh, and maybe some toasted Macamadamia nuts, too. Breakfast came with a complimentary mini cinnamon muffin (the orange juice was almost complimentary, too, as they didn't put it on my bill, but I pointed it out to them and made sure to pay for it).
It really was an awful lot of food ~ I probably shouldn't have ordered the extra side order of potatoes… "A man's got to know his limitations", Inspector Callahan ~ but I really love me some potatoes for breakfast, no matter what else I have already ordered.
As I was expecting to eat at Fresca, I had already stopped at Peet's Coffee & Tea®, which is just two doors down. I had a cuppa their House Blend.
http://www.peets.com/shop/coffee_detail.asp?id=47&cid=1000132
Cafe For All Seasons only offers Tabasco® (and just the standard red) for condimentary supplementation, so I used some of my own El Yucateco® Chipotle sauce (a mere 3,400 Scoville heat units ~ which is Gringo hot, but really is just more flavour than heat) on the potatoes. This is a very tasty addition to anyone's hot sauce collection. El Yucateco® has several other nice flavoured hot sauces. Their XXXtra Hot Sauce ~ Salsa Kutbil-li de Chile Habanero is one of the best bottles (both in flavour and Scoville heat) you will find.
http://www.elyucateco.com/
After breakfast I went to Supercuts for a haircut, hence the stupid, sub-par sub-titular joke above.
Glen Bacon Scale Rating: Special Orange Buttermilk Waffle ~ 6.4; Peet's® House Blend ~ 6.8
*(Here is a little "bit" of info on the etymology of "bits":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_%28money%29 )
**(Porquois gaufres belges? You might ask. Didn't they already have their culinary plate filled with their little sprouts from Brussels?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_waffle
And don't even get me started on that whole mayonnaise atrocity that they put on their frjtz, Jean-Claude!)
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