Taylor Street Coffee Shop

♪ "Now the (Twenty-)First of December (October, whatever) was covered with snow
And so was the Turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston... " ♫ 

(No official web-site, which is kinda strange, as this is the first/original of their mini-chain of five restaurants and all four of the other restaurants have their own web-sites.)


Place: Taylor Street Coffee Shop

Location: 375 Taylor Street (between Ellis and O'Farrell Streets); phonicular contact: 415-567-4031

Hours: open daily at 7:00am (give or take ~ mostly take ~ five to ten minutes)

Meal: Spring Omelet ~ mushroom, tomato, bell pepper, basil, red onion, arugula, zucchini, Feta optional (which I opted for, of course), served with hash brown [ sic, as two words and in the singular ] or sliced tomato or mixed greens and toast (I went with the sour dough [ sic, also as two words] option); and a glassa orange juice

(Here's a little-known Cliff Clavinistic fact, James Taylor is a big fan of Feta cheese, too.)


Continuing with my visits to all five of the restaurants in this family-owned chain, this morning I went back to Taylor Street Coffee Shop (see last 'blog-entry from Thursday, March 16th, 2017).

I arrived there a few minutes before they were scheduled to open and ended up being the first idiot waiting in line. The place filled up quickly again this morning, and all of the tables were occupied by 7:15am.

Like all of the other restaurants in their stable (however, I did not see any horses eating their oats at the next table over), there are still some other ideas from which to choose:

Primavera[1] Omelet Combo ~ spinach, roasted tomato and mushroom egg white omelet, fresh housemade (well, Coffee Shop-made) salsa; served with English muffin, fresh fruit mix, small fresh squeezed OJ and a Coffee or hot tea;

Crunch Flakes ~ cornflake crusted French toast (versions of this seem to be offered at each of their restaurants);

or

Hombre Omelet ~ honey ham, bacon, pork-lime sausage w/ Cheddar (which for me would just be called "Cheddar Omelet", I suppose).

Even though it is actually Fall already, the Spring Omelet was seasonally good. I was particularly impressed at the amount of Feta it had inside the omelette; you would be surprised at how many places go all el cheapo (which is Greek for "frugal bastages") with the Feta. The spinach, arugula, and basil were incorporated into the egg batter of the omelette and not inside.

Unfortunately, I did not "upgrade" my hashbrowns with their excellent habanero-infused red onions (which would have gone just as nicely inside the omelette, too).

While eating this meal, I mixed some of the Feta in with the hashbrowns just on an exalted lark[2]. Fuggedabout their "Millionaire's Bacon®" side dish! You wanna talk about a real "Million Dollar Idea"?... Feta Hashbrowns!!!

For condimentary supplementation, like both Surisan and Sweet Maple last week, Taylor Street Coffee Shop offers Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce (both Original Red Sauce and Green Jalapeño Sauce) and Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce. I didn't need/use any additional flavouring with this morning's meal, though.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Spring (well, Autumn) Omelet ~ 6.9
(I am giving this an additional 0.2 Glen Bacon Scale points due to the preponderance of Feta in it) 

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

"Primavera" simply means "Spring" in Italiano.

The Italiano word for "Fall/Autumn" is "Autunno".

2. My brother Sean may be the only person to get that stupid pun.