Velo Rouge Café

Richmond (District) Coffeehouses ~ 
Trentième Partie, b

http://www.velorougecafe.com/velo-rouge-cafe/

(Their web-site [if you can call it that] really could use 
a major [Taylor?] upgrade.)

Place: Velo Rouge Café

Location: 798 Arguello Boulevard 
(on the corner of McAllister Street)

Hours: open at 6:30am Monday through Friday; 
open at 8:00am Saturday and Sunday

Meal: Huevos Rancheros ~ two eggs (of the fried/over-medium variety), roasted red peppers, black beans, salsa, and Cheddar cheese over corn tortillas, served with potatoes; and a cuppa (batch-brewed) Stumptown Coffee Holler Mountain

https://www.stumptowncoffee.com/products/holler-mountain

(It is such a shame that ქეთი მელუა[1] is just so d*rn ugly and can not sing a lick.)


The Red Sox are playing the Rubbah-Game against the D*mn Yankees this morning (well, it is afternoon Back East at the Way-by-the-Fens Park) and it is being broadcast on TBS (which I am able to watch on TeeVee for a change), so I wanted to be able to eat an early breakfast and keep it pretty local. Hence, I just went back to Velo Rouge Café (see last 'blog-entry from Monday, July 4th, 2016 ~ C'est l'esprit!) pour mon petit déjeuner.

I have already had a few of the breakfast items that are served at Velo Rouge Café. There are still a few other remaining ideas (off both their Weekend Specials and standard Breakfast menus):

Velo Rouge French Toast ~ with fresh fruit and powdered sugar;

Arguello Breakfast ~ two eggs any style served with two slices of 9-grain or sourdough toast and grilled country potatoes (this is all pretty basic, but their homefries are pretty good, anyway);

or

(the most-unfortunately monikered) Jack Johnson Banana Pancakes (which, according to their "web-site" used to be more convincingly named "Major Taylor[2] Banana Nut Pancakes") ~ with almonds and fruit (if they ever decide to go back to the original name, I might even think of ordering this dish upside-down).

(That bokeh-effect was done on purpose. Well, that is my story. The End.)


This dish was another HUGE plate and was piled high with lotsa (good) junk. This was a very good rendition of Huevos Rancheros, too.  I am always impressed when "just a coffeehouse/café" has "real" food and potatoes (and, in this case, very good potatoes and in a good-sized portion, too) that they can prepare. Unlike a lot of "coffeehouses/cafés", this place actually has a full kitchen in which to prepare the food (much more like an authentique café français than your typical 'merican coffeehouse). And this place also offers very good Coffee (ou Café), which should be a given with a "coffeehouse/café", but, sadly, is not always the case.

Initially, I was thinking of ordering a pastry to eat while waiting for the meal to arrive. Luckily, I did not, as this was (like yesterday's meal) a LOT of food to consume and finish.

Also according to their "web-site" (which has not been updated since November 20th, 2014), they used to only serve exclusively Blue Bottle Coffee (which I had on my first two visits there). However, like many local coffeehouses/cafés joints lately, they have gone away from that local roastery now. I can not specify why they did so, but in talking with other coffeehouses and restaurants, it was due to Blue Bottle Coffee 
overcharging and expanding on their own. It is all good. Stumptown Coffee is a very decent brand, anyway; even if they aren't locally-sourced from San Francisco.

Velo Rouge Café offers a pretty decent selection in the way of  the condimentary supplements: Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce (Original Red Sauce), Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce, Louisana's Pure Crystal® Hot Sauce, Huy Fong Foods, Inc. Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce, and two types of Pico Pica® (Hot Sauce and Taco Sauce). I used some of my own Dat'l Do-it® Scorching Habanero Hot Sauce (Thanks, Mom!) on the potatoes only; the salsa on the Huevos was already pretty flavourful and I didn't need to subsidise it with any extra heat.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Huevos Rancheros ~ 6.9;
Stumptown Coffee Holler Mountain ~ 7.2

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1. Yeah, right!

http://katiemelua.com/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Taylor