higher grounds coffeehouse

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"Across Chenery Street
P*mps tryin' to catch a crêpe that's sweet..."
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(No official-type web-site.)


Place: higher grounds coffeehouse

Location: 691 Chenery Street (on the corner of Diamond Street); phonicular contact: (415) 587-2933

Hours: open daily at 8:00am

Meal: Alla Milanese[1] (à la mode d'une crêpe) ~ tomato, eggplant, Mozzarella, black pepper, olive oil, spices, served with potatoes & salad (you know, your basic boring salad mixed greens stuff, aka rabbit-food); and a (large-ish) cuppa the (coffee)house Coffee

(There are no real EweToobular juxtaselections with these two videos [well, other than the rain today]. Maybe ol' Bobby W. and the wolf-boyos like crêpes and eggplant[2], too.)


(Here we have a special bonusary Friday 'blog-entry due to the three-day Veterans Day Weekend this year. I knew it would pay off being one of them WWII Vets one of these days.)


While this morning's wicked ol' rain may have let up by the time I arrived at higher grounds coffeehouse (see last 'blog-entry from Sunday, December 18th, 2016), there was still a bit of a wet mist in the air. 

It's funny, I had arrived just a little after 8:05am, but there were already several people (neighborhood regulars by the looks of them) in this tiny joint; some had been served already and some were still waiting to order ahead of me.

D'autres bonnes idées encore (all of which can be made as either crêpes or omelettes; next time [and there will be many other next times, believe me] I really should oughtta try one of their omelettes):

Pesto ~ cheese, pesto (well, natch'), mushroom, & Feta (this one I would probably like to try as an omelette);

Simply Italian ~ Mozzarella, Parmesan, basil, spices, salt, pepper, olive oil, zucchini (this sounds like it would be good as either);

Florentine ~ cheese, spinach, cottage cheese, onion (I don't care much for cottage cheese in my omelettes, so this would have to be tried as seulement une crêpe);

Curry ~ bell pepper, cheese, onion, sour cream, potato (while they don't state it on the chalkboard menu, I am sure there are some kinda curry-spices involved there, too; I could go either way with this one, but it sounds like it would be better as a crêpe); 

or

Apple Cheese ~ cheese (well, duh!), apple (duh x2), brown sugar, cinnamon (okay, this one should probably only be made as a crêpe, but I am not discrediting the choice of this as an omelette until I try it). 

I think that I might have enjoyed their Puttanesca Crêpe just a little bit better on my last visit, but this was another stellah-winnah for me! This was made with lots of eggplant in it (which is a good thing, as this was my main reason for going with this choice this morning) and the eggplant was cut into nice bite-sized/palatable 1/4" strips (sometimes places will go with 1/2" chunks or larger and it makes the crêpe a bit unwieldy... if you are into wielding crêpes, that is).

Their special coffeehouse blend/roast is very strong (read: good!), too, but they could serve brown mud-water there and I would still come back again and again for the great food. "But they are a coffeehouse, after all, Brian, shouldn't they be serving good Coffee, anyway?" You would be surprised...

As far as condimentary supplementation goes, higher grounds coffeehouse only has Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce (just the standard Original Red Sauce). Knowing this (well, making sure to re-read the previous few 'blog-entries from this place), I made sure to come prepared with some of my own hot sauces. I used some Pepper Palace Gator Bite Hot Sauce (Thanks, Greg & Cindy!) on the (also very tasty) potatoes and some Dixie Crossroads Hot Habañero[ sic ] Pepper Sauce (Thanks, Brian!) on the crêpe (which turned out to be a mistake, as this really didn't need any extra flavour, but I had already liberally doused it before trying it... oh, well).

This tiny bonhomous coffeehouse really is:
"a nice little place to eat".

I'll testify to that... heheheh!


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Alla Milanese ~ 6.8;
higher grounds coffeehouse Coffee ~ 6.6

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1. Didn't she star in "Who's the Boss?" with Tony Danzig?

2. Pop-quiz to see just how many of you have been paying attention or have been sleeping through class (well, these silly li'l 'blog-entry things):

Is an eggplant a vegetable or fruit (and it does NOT come from the chicken-tree, Nick!)?

Much like it's New World cousins tomato and peppers (both of the chilli and bell variety), the eggplant is actually a fruit... and botanically a berry!