Taylor Street Coffee Shop

♪ "I've seen French toast and I've seen cornflakes... 
but I don't know nuthin' 'bout no Fire and Rain" ♫ 

www.still no official web-site.com


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(-ish)

Meal: Crunch Flakes w/ added mixed berries (option) ~ cornflake crusted French toast, served sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon; and a glassa orange juice

(I am not aware if James Taylor likes either cornflakes or French toast.)


Because I could and because I wanted to, I went back to Taylor Street Coffee Shop (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, October 21st, 2017) for breakfast again this morning... yada, yada, yada... great little place... yada, yada, yada... if it were more "local" for me, it would definitely be Breakfastary Starting Rotation-worthy... yada, yada, yada...

I had arrived there at just a little before 7:00am thinking (misremembering) that they opened up at 7:30am and was planning on waiting outside for the half-hour or so. As it turned out, I was the #5 person in line (which was group #3 in the door) and really had no wait to speak of (except for speaking of it here). It turned out that I was in and out with the first seating and even before there was the accustomed crowd waiting lined-up out the door.

Having already eaten at Taylor Street Coffee Shop several times in the past, I have had several of their great breakfastary offerings, but there are still a few other ideas worth going back for (or repeating):

Primavera Omelet Combo ~ spinach, roasted tomato and mushroom egg white omelet. Fresh housemade salsa. Served with English muffin, fresh fruit mix, small fresh squeezed OJ and a Coffee or hot tea;

Morning Salad Combo ~ spring mix, poached egg, bacon (nah!), tomato, grapes, strawberry, Feta cheese, balsamic vinaigrette. Served with English muffin, fresh fruit mix, small fresh squeezed OJ and a Coffee or hot tea;

or (redux)

Hollandaise Hash ~ seasoned hash brown topped with bacon (nah, again!), habanero infused onion, mushroom, tomato, bell pepper. Drizzled w/ Hollandaise. Served with two eggs and toast. A choice of toast (wheat, white, sour dough, rye, English muffin) (this was the very first dish that I tried there and I knew I was hooked);

and

Greek Omelet ~ baby spinach, mushroom, olive and Feta. Served with hash brown or sliced tomato or mixed greens (Substitute fresh fruit mix for $3). Toast (wheat, white, English muffin, rye, sour dough). 

This was not quite as "crunchy" (or "flaky") as I was expecting, but it was still very good. However, it only comes with one (thick) slice. It was a large enough serving for my appetite, but I wonder if I shoulda also ordered a side of their most awesome hashbrowns with habanero infused onions. I liked the cinnamon that was dusted all over it, but most places go a little heavy-handed with that powdered sugar stuff (I can take it or leave it ~ mostly leave it).

The (optional) mixed berries included: blueberries (a true botanical berry); blackberries (or possibly marionberries or olallieberries or whateverberries ~ none of which are botanically berries); strawberries (also not botanical berries); and even a slice-a orange[1] as a garnish. The (optional) mixed berries were definitely the way to go with this dish; it would have still been good, but nuthin' really special about which to 'blog home...

(Now this condimentary supplementation cage/rack ~ about six inches above the table ~ is a great little idea for a great little place that really does not allow for a lotta space on the tables.)


As can be seen in the above photo, Taylor Street Coffee Shop offers Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce (two ways ~ Original Red Sauce and Green Jalapeño Sauce) and Tapatío® Salsa Picante
Hot Sauce. With this morning's selection, none were needed or used. Of course, I did use a good amount of the maple syrup that was there.

the Wild Parrots of San Francisco Interlude

After breakfast, while heading back up Taylor Street towards Geary Street, I heard a mess o' the chattering feather-heads, but did not see any of them flying around. All I can assume is that they really must have a roost somewhere high up in one of the buildings in the between-O'Farrell-Geary block on Taylor Street.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Crunch Flakes w/ added mixed berries (option) ~ 6.9;
the Wild Parrots of San Francisco ~ 8.5

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1. The fruit of any citrus tree is considered a hesperidium, a kind of modified berry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperidium