Reverie Cafe

♪ "There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold...
... and she's building an omelette to Heaven... " ?!? ♫ 

(No official web-site thing [no matter what it has linked on their defacedbook page].)


Place: Reverie Cafe

Location: 848 Cole Street (between Carl and Frederick Streets ~ the streets in San Francisco, Callie-for-nee-ya, not the back-roads of Chautauqua County, New York[1]); phonicular contact: (415) 242-0200

Hours: open 6:30am Monday-Friday, 7:30am Saturday-Sunday (and apparently at 7:30am also on Monday holidays)

Meal: Wild Mushroom (which I was assured they capture with only humane traps), Gruyere Cheese & Truffle Butter (Omelette) ~ served with house potatoes (that would be "homefries" to you tuber-impaired), toast, & fruit (which were just a superfluous slica orange and a slica watermelon); and a large cuppa (16 oz-er or so) their house-Coffee, which I was informed is Equator Coffees & Teas™ - Mocha Java Fair Trade Organic

https://www.equatorcoffees.com/collections/coffees/products/mocha-java-fair-trade-organic-retail?variant=1759260606473

("Reverie"... "Reverberi"... whatever... close enough for a Holiday Weekend!

There is no real EweToobular juxtaselection with the second song/video. I just like it. So deal with it.)


Not really knowing what time that they might be open for the Monday holiday (I even checked their web-site before heading over, but for some reason it did not state what their hours were this morning... ), I blind-faithly drove over to Reverie Cafe (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, August 20th, 2016) and after finding a good (legal) parking spot just around the corner, I arrived there around 7:20am. When I walked up to the front door it was still locked, and I was gestured (two hands with five fingers each, by the lady behind the counter... 
I just hope that she wasn't Greek!) that they would be opening in another ten minutes or so (thankfully they were even opening for breakfast today; I really did not have a good back-up plan planned, otherwise).

There normally would be a few weekend specials listed on the blackboard by the kitchen area, but maybe because I had arrived so early, they did not have anything on it yet. That really did not matter, as their standard breakfast menu still has a few items on it that I want to try one of these days; ferinstance:

Breakfast Porridge ~ warm farro, apples, raisins, cinnamon, toasted almonds, fresh cream, & local honey (this will definitely be my choice next time if I am in a "sweet mood"; of course, I would probably order a side of their homefries with it, too);

Wild Mushroom, Wilted Greens & Leeks Eggs Benedict ~ served with house potatoes (so there would be no need for me to order an extra side of homefries);

Huevos Rancheros ~ tortillas, scrambled eggs, black beans, house salsa, avocado, cotija, crema, & cilantro;

or

Breakfast Burrito ~ scrambled eggs, black beans, Jack cheese, house salsa, cotija cheese, & cilantro (and for those of you that do partake of the dead, decaying swinish products, they also offer this with a pulled pork or Mexican chorizo option).

Once again, I sat outside in their spacious (it actually takes up one-and-a-half backyards) garden patio seating area and had the whole upper deck level to myself the entire time that I was eating (well, seeing as they had just opened when I arrived, there were only two other small families eating out back at the same time, anyway). As you can see in the above (way over-lit, sorry) photo, Mr. Sun was just getting up for the morning himself. Since the last time I ate there, they have upgraded with all new tables and chairs in the garden patio area, too.

"Truffles AND mushrooms, Brian?!"
What can I say? I am just a fun(gi) kinda guy!

This was another decent omelette; I have yet to have a bad breakfastary meal there. Additionally, they serve really good homefries, too ~ made with red and green bell peppers and white onions in them.

For condimentary supplementation, Reverie Cafe had Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce (Original Red Sauce), Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce, and Huy Fong Foods, Inc. Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce. I used some of my own Hot Licks® Serrano Hot Sauce (Thanks, Brian!) on the potatoes and a little Pepper Palace Gator Bite Hot Sauce (Thanks, Cindy & Greg!) on top of the omelette (I think that it really complemented the earthy tones of the truffle and mushroom flavours).

Strange Coffee Interlude

This was a really nice cuppa Coffee. I have had many of Equator Coffees & Teas™ before. I like that they are very local (as in from San Rafael ~ the one in Marin County, Callie-for-nee-ya, not the much larger city in Chautauqua County, New York). When I was about half-way done (or "half-way undone", if you are of the pessimistic ilk) with the cuppa, I decided to put that slica orange on the side of my plate to good use and plopped it into the mug to make it a sorta Caffè Borgia. However, I did not drop the slica watermelon into it (because I have never heard of a Caffè Stymie).

"Love me, light me, give me... " ... breakfast!


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Equator Coffees & Teas™ - Mocha Java Fair Trade Organic ~ 6.9;
Wild Mushroom, Gruyere Cheese & Truffle Butter (Omelette) ~ 6.5;
Colazione al fresco ~ 7.8

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1. Okay, to even start to get the stupid joking reference to that one, you would need to go onto their defacedbook page and click on the mysterious link to the web-site that they have posted there. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua_County,_New_York