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Place: home

Location: 1222 Noriega Street (near 19th Avenue)

Hours: open Monday - Friday at 7:00am, Saturday & Sunday at 8:00am

Meal: Toast - Tomato, Truffle Oil, Pesto ~ ​topped with tomato, truffle oil, pesto, freshly grated cheese, freshly ground pepper, and a pinch of red pepper flakes, Torched (I did not see exactly what this is "torched" with, but I am assuming some kinda hand-held butane vessel like they use for brûlée-ing crème), and with a fried egg laid (they told me that they have special asbestos-laiden hens back in the kitchen that do this for you) on top; and to drink a Rose Latte (topped with some dried rose petals even)

I figured that it would not take me very long to get back to (or, in this case, getting to their other/original coffeeshop) home (see last 'blog-entry from last Saturday). Strange and sweet Coffee drinks may not be for everyone, but I am just a strange and sweet kinda guy. 

This original location of home has been open for only three years now (almost exactly, too ~ since early February 2015). Like their coffeeshop along Clement Street, it also has a very large, open café space to it; this makes sense, as it used to house a diner/restaurant (the Bashful Bull; I had eaten breakfast there a few times in the past). Also, as with their other coffeeshop on Clement Street, you order and pay first at the counter and they call out your name when your drink order is ready, but they will bring the food over to your table.

I do like that they offer a few different breakfastary dishes (mostly other Toasts) at this specific location where eggs can be added. However, it really will not matter much; I will probably be going to their Clement Street coffeehouse more often as it is just a lot closer, within walking distance even (... well, if I am feeling like a twenty-four block round-trip walk).

(What?! No cool puppy dog or teddy bear pictures in my Latte-foam today? What's up with that?!)


While this was a very good Coffee drink (excellent, really), and definitely worth reordering, I liked last week's Lavender Latte just a tad bit more. I think the Lavender Latte had a more subtle flavour to it. I had never had a rose-flavoured Coffee drink before and really liked its uniqueness, too.

Not much really to say about this meal. It was pesto and sliced tomatoes on a thick slice of brioche toast with a fried egg on top. I liked it.

Once again, I did not bother checking to see if home offered anything in the way of condimentary supplements. I had come prepared with a few bottles of my own hot sauces and used a little (about five to six drops) of Hot Licks® Serrano Hot Sauce (Thanks, Brian!) on top of the egg on top of the tomatoes and pesto on top of the toast on top of the plate on top of the table. ("That seems like an awful lotta 'on top ofs', Brian." Well, yeah. I am getting paid by the word here, after all. Wait... what?! I am NOT getting paid for any of these-here 'blog-things? Whose idea was this?)


Twisted donuts & coffee ~ a breakfastary dessert afters Interlude

http://twisteddonutsf.com/

When I pulled up this morning in front of home, I happened to notice that right across the street (and down a few doors) there was a new-ish doughnut shop ~ Twisted donuts & coffee. Because of which, I decided to only order the one cuppa with breakfast and skipped ordering a pastry with a "dessert" Coffee afterward. 

Twisted donuts & coffee has all your standard-type doughnuts (cake doughnuts, jelly-filled, bars, croissants, etc.), but on the weekends, they also offer five or six different specials. I chose a nutella® Fruirrito and a Coconut Guava (a cake doughnut). There were even two different cake doughnut specials for those of you that partake of the dead, decaying, crisped-up porcine bits: Bacon & Chocolate and Bacon & Chocolate & Jalapeño.

The nutella® Fruirrito was basically made with a flour tortilla (hence the portmanteau-ed "fruit burrito", I assume; why people feel the need to come up with totally madeuppery words is beyond my comprehensibilitation) filled with nutella® and then deep fried. While I liked the idea of this one and applaud their originality, I did not particularly like the actual conception of it. It was all a bit too hard (both in form and to eat) for my liking.

As for the Coconut Guava (cake doughnut)... now, this one was verrrry good! The guava icing on top would have been great all on its ownsome, but really paired nicely with the coconut shavings.

I also ordered a small cuppa Peerless Coffee & Tea® Sumatra Mandheling (a medium roast). They offer about six different types of Peerless Coffee & Tea® in Coffee-thermos/canisters/dispensers/what-have-yous (Are you sure that I am not getting paid by the word for any of these 'blog-entries?) at the end of the counter from which to choose. Not that I really needed another cuppa right after the Rose Latte, but it did help to balance-out the sweetness of the two pastries. (If all of this Coffee does not keep me up all day, the extra sugar surely will.)

http://www.peerlesscoffee.com/product/all-coffee/sumatra-mandheling/


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Toast - Tomato, Truffle Oil Pesto ~ 6.4;
Rose Latte ~ 7.2;
nutella® Fruirrito ~ 6.0;
Coconut Guava (doughnut) ~ 7.0;
Peerless Coffee & Tea® Sumatra Mandheling ~ 6.7