Blue Jay Cafe

http://www.bluejaysf.com/

(Bet you can't guess the relationship with today's EweToob link and the restaurant. Give up? Well, it's a well-known fact that the Beatles were big fans of roasted tomatoes.)


This morning's breakfast was once again at Blue Jay Cafe (see last 'blog-entry from February 6th, 2011). They are located over on Divisadero Street, between Golden Gate and McAllister Streets (which puts it technically in the Western Addition, but close enough to the Anza Vista and Alamo Square sub-neighborhoods that people might claim it as such).

Blue Jay Cafe calls their early morning meal "Brunch", but there is really nothing fancy-shmancy about this place. It's more of a Hipster Dufus (Would the plural actually be "Dufi"?) crowd if anything. There really aren't that many breakfastary items from which to choose on the menu. They used to offer weekend specials on the large chalkboard over the kitchen area, but don't seem to do that any longer. I simply went with the Veggie Omelette ~ scallions[1], red onion, and roasted tomato; served with potatoes, fruit, or grits, and toast, biscuit, or cornbread. I also had a large glass of orange juice.

This was a pretty decent omelette, mainly due to the roasted tomatoes ~ which added another smokey depth of flavour. Additionally, the red onions were also roasted or sautéed, another nice touch. I selected as my bread choice a fresh, home-made buttermilk biscuit, which was very good and still warm when they brought it out. As my side dish, I had the home fried potatoes, which were also very good.

Blue Jay Cafe only offers as condimentary supplementation Crystal® Louisiana's Pure Hot Sauce. I remembered this from my last trip there (well, I remembered to check the old 'blog-entry this morning), so I used some of my own Palo Alto Fire Fighters Habanero Pepper Sauce (Thanks, Amys and Brian!) on the potatoes and some Serious Food… Silly Prices Mango Hot Sauce (Thanks, Cindy!) on the omelette.
  
Blue Jay Cafe have a small backyard patio space that holds just 2-3 small tables. One of these days I really need to eat out there. They didn't have it open yet this morning, plus it was still pretty cool out to sit outside.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:  Veggie Omelette ~ 6.5


[1] Stupid, useless cunning linguist/pseudo-horticultural pointer of the day:

 The word "scallion" comes from late Middle English "scalyon(e)", from Old French "escaloigne", from Vulgar Latin "escalonia", variant of Latin "Ascalonia (caepa)", meaning "onion of Ascalon" (which is the modern day city of Ashkelon along the Mediterranean coast of Israel). 

Aka, green onions, spring onions, salad onions, green shallots, onion sticks, long onions, baby onions, precious onions, yard onions, gibbons, or syboes, Booker T.