the little chihuahua

http://www.thelittlechihuahua.com/


Place: the little chihuahua

Location: 292 Divisadero Street (between Haight and Page Streets)

Hours: open Saturday & Sunday at 10:00am for "Brunch"

Meal: Breakfast (even though it is listed on their "Brunch" menu) Burrito ~ a toasted flour tortilla stuffed with scrambled eggs, Jack cheese, your choice of beans (I chose black beans), fresh chopped cilantro & onions, Mexican potatoes, sautéed poblano chiles and onions (if anyone else is keeping count, that would be the second mention of "onions" in the ingredients) and smoky chile salsa; corn tortilla chips with salsas (of course); a glassa Piña agua fresca with the meal; (beforehand) a medium cuppa Peet's Coffee® Big Bang™ (Medium Roast); and (afterhand) a scoopa Basil Ice Cream and a scoopa Caramel Popcorn Ice Cream from Bi-Rite Creamery

http://www.peets.com/coffee/featured-category/coffee-shop-by-category-top-sellers/big-bang.html

http://biritecreamery.com/icecream

(Uh-huh! It is a not unknown fact that Lloyd Edward Elwyn Robertson is a big [BANG!?] fan of Basil Ice Cream. However, it is not known whether either Neanderthals or Australopithecuses [Australopitheci?] liked Caramel Popcorn Ice Cream[1].)


Because it has been over a year (and because I can), I returned to the little chihuahua (see last 'blog-entry from Sunday, July 10th, 2016) for breakfast (well, "Brunch") again this morning. I went back to their original restaurant (taqueria, whatever) in the Lower Haight.

the little chihuahua only offers six different items on their "Brunch" menu from which to choose. I have chosen four of them thus far and leaving only:

Mexican French Toast (also known as Emperor Maximilian I Pain Perdu) ~ two French toast battered flour tortillas cooked fresh on the grill and served with plantains, applewood smoked bacon (which I would have either ochenta y seis-ed or quatre-vingt six-ed) and topped with warm maple-agave syrup

or

Breakfast ("Brunch", whatever) Tacos ~ two grilled flour tortillas (I would much rather see these be corn tortillas, though) filled with scrambled eggs, Mexican potatoes, sautéed poblano chiles and onions topped with a smoky chile salsa and fresh cilantro & onions (again with the double dose of "onions"? what's with all the onions at the little chihuahua? I thought onions were deadly to Dogs.), and served with your choice of beans; choose either: chorizo & Jack cheese or spinach & goat cheese (of course, I would have to go with the choice of espinacas y queso de cabra).

Having arrived well over an hour before the little chihuahua even opened, I stopped by the nearby Peet's Coffee® (the one that is just a block away from the Panhandle) to get a cuppa to enjoy for a pre-breakfastary perambulation through that area of Golden Gate Park.

the Wild Parrots of San Francisco Interlude

While I was there doing the perambulatory thing, I saw a mini-pandemonium (just one pair) of the Wild Parrots flying around the tall Eucalyptus trees near the western end of the Panhandle. I also did see several Robins, Crows-and/or-Ravens, and Little Brown Birds in that area of the park.

This was another great breakfast from the little chihuahua. It was a HUGE burrito and a lot of food. At first, I thought that it might not be enough food and I was going to order an additional side of Mexican potatoes, but with the size of the burrito and the chips and salsas, it was more than enough food for me (plus, I knew that I wanted to save room for Ice Cream after breakfast). I particularly liked that this was served in a grilled flour tortilla; that beats the steamed kind any day. I always love it when potatoes are already added into the main meal, too.

So far, I would have to rank their breakfast ("Brunch", whatever) entries as: (1) Stacked Enchiladas (which was not only my favourite dish of theirs, it was a Top Ten Favourite from the year that I had it, too); (2) Chile Relleno (while not quite as "stacked" as the enchiladas dish; it was pretty "buxom" all on its ownsome); (3) Breakfast ("Brunch", whatever) Burrito; and (4) Chilaquiles (which was okay, but I have had many better chilaquiles dishes elsewhere).

For condimentary supplementation, the little chihuahua truly exceeds the limit, Mr. Federation. They have six different fresh, homemade (taqueria-made, whatever) salsas in their salsa bar. I only used three ramekins this morning and had (in order of heat-level going from hottest to mildest):
(a) Habanero ~ not as espicy as you might think (well, not as spicy as I have become accustomed), but this is their hottest salsa; this also has a great flavour of fresh limes;
(b) Chipotle ~ with a great smoky chipotle flavour; also not really that picante; this is my favourite of the six that they offer;
and
(c) Roasted Tomato ~ very mild, but also very good; this one may be gringo picante, but, at this point in my chilli career, I could barely taste or feel any heat.
For what it is worth (or for what it is worthless), they also have bottles of the completely superfluous 
Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce on all the tables.

Burritos, Ice Cream, and Coffee?! If I could have only figured out some way to incorporate Pizza and Beer into this breakfastary sojourn, it would have been the perfect meal!


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Breakfast (even though it is listed on their "Brunch" menu) Burrito ~ 6.7;
chips & salsas ~ 7.3;
Peet's Coffee® Big Bang™ ~ 7.1;
Bi-Rite Creamery Ice Creams ~ 7.1 (Caramel Popcorn) & 7.5 (Basil);
the Wild Parrots of San Francisco ~ 8.5

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1. Many prominent anthro-apologists (and Dr. Sheldon Cooper) have claimed that Ice Cream and Caramel Popcorn fossils can be found as far back as the Miocene Epoch. 

If you don't believe me, then why do they call it Chocolate Chimps Ice Cream?!