Hollywood Cafe

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https://hollywoodcafesf.com/


Place: Hollywood Cafe

Location: 530 North Point Street
(between Taylor and Jones Streets[1])

Hours: open Monday - Sunday: 7:00am

Meal: Chilaquiles ~ chorizo (¡No gracias, José!), avocado, corn chips, Mozzarella cheese, & tomatillo salsa, served with seasoned hash browns & toast; and a glassa grapefruit juice

(No EweToobular juxtaselections, just a coupla Hallowe'enie videos/songs for the holiday.)


I figured as long as I was visiting all five of the 
Taylor Street Coffee Shop-to-Sursian family of restaurants, I might as well make a return visit to the restaurant owned by his brother, too. So I went back to Hollywood Cafe (see last 'blog-entry from Sunday, June 23rd, 2013) for breakfast this morning.

I scored a free/legal (well, until 9:00am on Sunday mornings, but I was done eatin' and outta there way before 8:00am, anyway) parking space right around the corner. This might not be too hard to do very early on a Sunday morning, but just a few hours later, it would be nearly impossible to duplicate.

Hollywood Cafe has a pretty decent breakfast menu, and seeing as there are really only a few other good places that are available ~ or open that early every day ~ in Fisherman's Wharf, it makes them a viable destination for many touristas that are staying in any of the surrounding hotels/motels. There were a few other ideas that I was eyeing this morning:

Asparagus Benedict ~ bacon (which I would have de-Glenned, of course), asparagus & tomato; served with seasoned hash browns;

Morning Salad ~ two poached eggs, wild arugula, tomato, fresh Mozzarella, candied walnut (which they have in the singular, but I hope that they would offer more than just one crummy walnut), a side of sesame dressing, & toast;

and they offer French toast four ways:

Classic ~ dipped in our egg, milk, vanilla extract & cinnamon batter;
Orangish[2] ~ dipped in our creamy orange-Grand Marnier® batter;
Vanilla ~ with homemade (well, café-made) vanilla-banana sauce, garnished with whipped cream & almonds (whereas they apparently only serve one walnut per dish, they do not have a problem with an abundance of almonds);
or
Dolce ~ topped with fired [ sic, I do not know if they meant "fried" or maybe "flambéed"; I would sure hope they are not using illegally employed fruit in their dishes] banana, mixed berries & candied walnut (again, this is singular; maybe they are just stingy with their drupe seeds) with whipped cream.

Any one of those French toasts sounds return trip-worthy to me.

Additionally, they do offer under their Hollywood Cafe Favorites section of the menu a dish named Marilyn Monroe ~ 3 wedges French toast & fresh fruit bowl. Now, why they would offer another (and much less boring-sounding) French toast dish and have the gumption to name it after one of the greatest female Hollywoodland figures (and you can take the word "figures" in any meaning you like) ever is beyond me.

They also offer something on their menu called "Sweet Bacon: glazed with maple syrup, fresh orange juice, brown sugar, & Grand Marnier®". I can only assume this is very similar to the "Millionaire's Bacon" sold at the other five restaurants owned by the owner's brother. (Hmmm?! Which came first the "chicken" or the "Sweet Bacon"?)

While I will give them kudos (and an additional 0.2 Glen Bacon Scale points) for the inclusion of Chilaquiles on their menu, I will also have to give them (What the h*ck is the antonym of "kudos"?) anti-kudos (and deduct 0.3 Glen Bacon Scale points) for not incorporating the corn tortilla chips into the scrambled mess (which is the whole point of chilaquiles). The corn tortilla chips were just piled on the side of the plate (and they were nothing special ~ not homemade [café-made, whatever] ~ just out of a bag). I ended up mixing some of the chips into the scramble on my own, but it just was not the same. The saving grace here was the decent amount of avocado on top of the pile of scrambled eggs and two types of jalapeños (green and red ~ and also in a large quantity) in the scramble itself... and their very good hashbrowns (which I prefer as oneword). Additionally (or non-additionally), I am pretty sure they left out any Mozzarella cheese in the scramble, too; I was already thinking that Mozzarella was a strange choice of cheese for chilaquiles and that Monterey Jack or Cheddar would have been a better option, anyway (no Glen Bacon Scale points were deducted for this oversight).

Thankfully, this was a very large amount of food, and tasty all the same. The size of their portions more than made up for any translation errors from Mexican-to-English-to-Korean-back to English.

Once again, it was interesting (strange) to see that the toast was three slices of sourdough. (It wasn't strange seeing sourdough toast, just the odd number of slices. Why not two slices or four slices? I wonder if "dos" mistranslates into Korean as "세"?).

Hollywood Cafe has Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce (both Original Red Sauce and Green Jalapeño Sauce) and Cholula® Hot Sauce Original for use as condimentary supplements. I used some of my own Dat'l Do-it® Classic Cayenne Hot Sauce (Thanks, Mom!) all over the hashbrowns (and I even included some excess green and red jalapeños from the scramble).

Awooooooooooooooo... draw blood!


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Chilaquiles ~ 6.3

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1. It is interesting to note that Taylor Street Coffee Shop is located on... well... nach'... Taylor Street (just about twenty-two blocks south) and that Surisan is located on the corner of Jones Street (just a block away, around the corner).

2. I originally assumed that this was another one of those completely madeuppery words. However, I checked with Marianne Webster's dictionary, and she confirmed that it is an actual word. Whodathunkit?!