MyMy Coffee Shop

"It's better to eat breakfast than it is to eat rust…"

(No official website, but they do have a defacedbook page ~ go figger)

1500 California Street (at Larkin Street)

Phonicular contact: (415) 800-7466

(What good is one Noel Yang song without the bookend?)


Now this was another nice little find. I happened to be in the neighborhood the other day and passed by MyMy Coffee Shop. (This is not a typo, or even Type AB Negative, they have it spelled as "MyMy" on their defacedbook page, too; I really couldn't tell from the awning if there was supposed to be any spacing or not.) I looked at their breakfastary menu in the window, liked what I saw, made note of it, and went back there this morning to check it out. MyMy Coffee Shop is on the corner of California and Larkin Streets along the scenic San Francisco "Trolley Car" line. This is a cute little neighborhood (if your cute little neighborhood happens to be Nob Hill) restaurant; they have four window-counter seats, seven tables for two, and four tables for four = (if my math is any good) just a little over thirty, right?

Wild Parrots of San Francisco Update:

I saw just one solitary (because two really can't be called "solitary", can it?) parrot[1] flying overhead on California Street as I was walking around after breakfast.

MyMy Coffee Shop is only open for breakfast and lunch. They have a pretty diverse breakfast menu, though. They offer seven different types (again, if there were only one type, it couldn't be called "different", could it?) of Eggs Benedict; lots of scramble/omelette choices (the Marguerita ~ sun dried tomato, mushroom, basil, & Gruyere ~ looked tempting); and they even have something called Rosemary Potato Irish Pancakes that looked very interesting. I ended up ordering the Harvest time Scramble ~ Garlic, tomato, fennel, eggplant, Kalamata olive, basil pesto, grilled asparagus, & Parmesan sprinkle; served with hash browns (they have this as two words ~ Gates must have gotten to them, too) and toast (I went with sourdough). I also ordered a cuppa coffee.

The scrambled eggs were strangely verdant (due to the basil pesto, of course), which was kinda cool to see (I was just happy that there was no green ham, Sam). This had lots of fennel, lots of Kalamata olives, but just one stalk of asparagus (however, it was nicely grilled); now this would have bothered me if that were the only vegetable in the scramble, but they didn't skimp on either of the other two ingredients that had caught my eye to begin with. The sourdough bread was served as grilled toast, which I thought was a nice touch.

Their house coffee was America's Best Coffee (it's not really the best, but it was okay ~ I suppose calling yourself America's Okay Coffee might not be such a great selling point) Special Roast (this is like a French Roast, but just a little darker ~ as was described by my waitress/server person lady). About half-way through my first cuppa, I added the mint sprig adornment thingy to my coffee and a little later on I also added half of the orange slice (I ate the other half); this all ended up being an interesting flavour combination (I did not feel it necessary to add any of my HP® Guinness® to the coffee, though).

As for condimentary supplements, MyMy Coffee Shop has a pretty decent selection: Tabasco® (the standard red); Cholula®; Tapatío®; and Crystal® Hot Sauce. But my collection/selection is better; I used some Oaxacan Hot Sauce (Thanks, Brian!) on the scramble and some HP® Guinness® (Thanks, Cindy!) on the hashbrowns. 

"It's better to burn toast than fade away…"

Glen Bacon Scale Rating:  Harvest time Scramble ~ 7.0


[1] Stupid, useless cunning linguist/pseudo-ornithological pointer of the day:
 
This is pretty interesting (well, if you like cunning linguistics), the English word "parrot" comes from the French word "perroquet" (meaning "parrot", see also: "parakeet"). The English word "popinjay" has the archaic meaning of "parrot" and comes from the Old French word "papegai". Now, this makes a lot more sense as variations of that word are used for "parrot" most of the World over:
 
Afrikaans = "papegaai"
Albanian = "papagall"
Belarussian = "папугай"
Bulgarian = "папагал"
Croatian = "papiga"
Czech = "papoušek"
Danish = "papegøje"
Dutch = "papegaai"
Esperanto = "papago"
Estonian = "papagoi"
Filipino = "papagayo"
Finnish = "papukaija"
German = "Papagei"
Greek = "παπαγάλος"
Hungarian = "papagáj"
Icelandic = "Páfagaukurinn"
Italian = "pappagallo"
Latvian = "papagailis"
Lithuanian = "papūga"
Macedonian = "папагалот"
Maltese = "Pappagall"
Norwegian = "papegøye"
Polish = "ptak zielony"
Portuguese = "papagaio"
Romanian = "papagal"
Russkij = "попугай"
Serbian = "папагај"
Slovak = "papagáj"
Slovenian = "papiga"
Spanish = "papagayo"
Swedish = "papegoja"
Turkish = "papağan"
Ukrainian = "папуга"
Yiddish = "פּאַפּוגייַ"