Surisan

♪ "Sometimes we know, sometimes we don't
Sometimes we give, sometimes we won't
Sometimes we're strong, sometimes we're wrong
Sometimes we eat Brussels 
(or Brussel [ sic ]) sprouts... " ♫ 

https://www.surisansf.com/


Place: Surisan

Location: 505 Beach Street 
(on the corner of Jones Street)

Hours: open for breakfast everyday [ sic ] at 8:00am

Meal:  (from the Benedicts & poached eggs section of their menu) Brussel [ sic ] Hash ~ Brussel [ sic ] sprouts, Yukon (potatoes, or possibly Cornelius, they do not specify which), bacon (which I had them zesentachtig), chorizo (which I also made sure they quatre-vingt six-ed), onion, mushroom, cherry pepper, tomato, poached egg(s), Parmesan, and a Popover(!); and a glassa fresh Raspberry Lemonade to drink with the meal;
and afterward (for a breakfastary dessert kinda thing) a Snowy Plover at Andytown Coffee Roasters

http://www.andytownsf.com/

(The juxtaselection ratiocination for today's EweToobular  trifectation: 
for the first two songs - "Jones" as in "Jones Street" ~ simples; 
and
because there are no groups named "Andytown" 
[that I am aware of], Whiskeytown will have to suffice, Mr. Adams.

Besides, I never really need an excuse for any Sir George Ivan stuff here.)


Because I originally claimed this new (only open since December 2016) place my Best "New" Breakfast Find of 2017 (plus, Best Breakfast on Fisherman's Wharf), I figured a return visit was in order while it is still 2017 (It is still 2017, isn't it?) back to Surisan (see previous 'blog-entry from Sunday, March 19th, 2017).

Seating-wise, this restaurant is probably second in size to its sister restaurant, Sweet Maple, but probably not by much. I sat inside again this morning, but I really shoulda sat outside in the large corner patio seating area in the front of the restaurant. The weather was more than comfortable enough for it (Can you say 70° and climbing at 8:00am?); hopefully the next time I get back there, the weather holds up as well.

Here are a few other reasons for future visits:

(under their Korean "Brunch" section of the menu) Boosted Jook[1] ~ rice porridge with carrots, spinach, mushroom, bacon (which I also would have made sure to have had여든 여섯-ed), scallion, cherry pepper, poached egg;

(under the Sweet and Fruity [which really should be a category specific to their sister-restaurant in the Castro, Kitchen Story] section of the menu) Blueberry Stuffed Crunch French Toast w/caramel sauce (this was going to be my back-up choice if I was in a fruitfully sweet mood);

or maybe even

(again from their Benedicts & poached eggs section of the menu) Hemingway Benedict ~ smoked salmon (which would have to be edited out; sorry, Ernest), avocado, fried capers, lemon, pickled onion, wasabi Hollandaise (this needs to be checked out if for nothing else other than to see what their wasabi Hollandaise tastes like).

This dish may not have been as awe-inspiring (or is that "Awwww!"-inspiring?) as the first meal I had there, but I still liked this one a lot. It is no secret that I am a big fan of this member of the cabbage family, and, luckily, this dish included a very good amount of Brussels (or Brussel [ sic ]) sprouts in it. I think this was supposed to come with two poached eggs on top, but they only gave me one (and that one egg was brought out separately in a small bowl after they had already served me the dish)... but as they say in Koreatown: 
"No biggie-san!" This was served in a black (piping hot ~ yeah, I had to touch it to make sure) skillet. It turned out to be a large amount of food, all of which I just barely finished.

Once again the Raspberry Lemonade was a bit strong and sweet, so I kept cutting it with water whenever there was space in the glass. It was all good and turned out perfectly after a few watering-downs. 

Surisan offers Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce 
(both Original Red Sauce and Green Jalapeño Sauce) and Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce for condimentary supplementation. None of these was needed/used (nor any of my own hot sauces that I had brought) as the dish proved flavourful (and picante) enough with the quantity of cherry peppers in it.

I had purposely skipped any Coffee with breakfast mainly because I was planning on heading back to Andytown Coffee Roasters (see recent/previous 'blog-entry from Saturday, September 30th, 2017) to one of their three locations in the Sunset. I returned to the scene of the crime (to their original shop on Lawton Street) specifically to pick up another bagga their totally awesome Ethiopia Natural Banko Fuafuate. This bagga was not for my own use (I still have several cuppas left from the bagga I picked up two weeks ago). However, sometimes "turn-about is fair play" with all these gift-giving things and I am finally re-paying some long-overdue "Thanks!" to Greg (of the "Greg & Cindy"/
"Cindy & Greg" numerous hot sauce gifts). 

http://www.andytownsf.com/purchase/ethiopia-natural-banko-fuafuate

While I was there, anyway, I figured I might as well also get me a cuppa one of their Coffee-kinda drinks. I am not normally a sweet or iced Coffee drinker, but I had been told by one of the barista-persons on my last visit that their signature iced Coffee drink is the Snowy Plover. Who am I to go against convention  (or iced Coffee recommendations from a barista-person)? So I gave it a go. They make their Snowy Plover by pouring S.Pellegrino® Sparkling Natural Mineral Water over ice into a 16 oz glass (or plastic cup if it happens to be "to go", like mine was this morning) until it is two-thirds full (and I bet that particular amount just drives OCD-Pessimists absolutely crazy); they add two shots of Andytown's home-roasted (roastery-roasted, whatever) Espresso and a small amount of brown sugar-based simple-syrup (which might be the real kicker to this great sparkling refresher); then, finally, they top it all off with a generous dollop of homemade (well, coffeehouse-made) whipped cream. Stir, sip, and enjoy!

This ain't your Uncle St*rbucks crummy ol' Iced Cr*ppuccino...


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Brussel [ sic ] Hash ~ 6.9;
Snowy Plover ~ 7.0;
(whereas) Ethiopia Natural Banko Fuafuate ~ 8.2 
(at least, and trending upward)

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1. Stupid, useless cunning linguist pointer of the day:

As best as I can figure, the Korean words "죽" and/or "粥" (transliterated/pronounced close enough to "jook" or "juk") simply mean "gruel" or "(rice) porridge".