Seal Rock Inn Restaurant

https://sealrockinn.com/restaurant/

(Their "official" web-site really ain't much for information, though.)


Place: Seal Rock Inn Restaurant

Location: 545 Point Lobos Avenue (on the corner of 48th Avenue)

Hours: open at 6:00am every d*mn day of the d*mn year (d*mned if I know why I used all those d*rn "d*mns")

Meal: Greek Omelette No. 1 ~ Feta cheese (and I love that they list Feta as the No. 1-first ingredient ~ because, as I am always wont to point out: "Everything is betta with Φέτα!"™©®Ⓤ), olives, bell peppers, onion, tomatoes, served with hash brown [ sic, singular and as twowords ], toast (I went with sourdough this morning) and jelly; and a glassa (supposably) "fresh-squeezed" orange juice (but it could easily have been "freshly squeezed" outta a carton for all I know or care)

Sometimes you just have a hankerin' for a good, nearby omelette! Luckily, I have that option just down the road a-piece from me (if'n "a-piece" is fifteen blocks away). Soooo... I hankered on back to Seal Rock Inn Restaurant (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, July 29th, 2017). There is no truth to the rumour (which I may have started several years ago) that this restaurant was originally going to call themselves "International Place of Omelettes" or "IPOO" for short...

Their "International Omelettes" section on the menu has ten different omelettes from which to choose; three of which are Greek-themed/based and I have ordered all of those several times over (and over again). Their "The Good Old 'merican Omelettes" section has another twenty from which to decide. Plus, there are four more special omelettes listed (the Andy's Omelette I have renamed "Greek Omelette No. 4" ~ fresh mushrooms, Feta cheese, salami [which I always ογδόντα-έξι], olives). (Now if any of you are keeping count, that is like... well-over twenty-five [based on Common Core Math] or so.) 

(Views of and taken from Sutro Heights Park. The last two photos would be of the eponymous Seal Rocks, which, strangely enough, were named after the Restaurant and not the other way around.)


In addition to their vast selection of great omelettes from which to choose (and even a couple of very questionable choices[1]), I really like that this place opens up extra early every day (mainly to accommodate the tourista-crowd staying at the Inn). 
I had arrived around 7:45am and even with a short hike after breakfast through Sutro Heights Park (which is just across the street, anyway), I was still home way before 9:00am.

I have always like this omelette. It is like having a perfect χωριάτικη σαλάτα[2] inside an omelette (well, less the cucumbers ~ which I bet would be an interesting ingredient for inside an omelette [I am sure that Cosmo Kramer would agree with me there, but Poppie would probably chastise the h*ck outta me]). I only have one real μικρή καταγγελία: they use those boring ol', tasteless, sliced canned black olives. This is a Greek-owned place and they really oughtta shoulda be making these with αυθεντικές ελιές Καλαμών (this would be like a great ristorante italiano using those cr*mmy Kraft® 'merican "cheese" singles in place of good Provolone or Parmigiano-Reggiano). However, they do make up for this minor under-sight by including a whole lotta Feta in it (... mo' Feta, mo' betta'!)! 

For condimentary supplementation, Seal Rock Inn Restaurant offers both Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce and Cholula® Hot Sauce (Original). Once again, I used some of my own Palo Alto Fire Fighters XXX Ghost Pepper Sauce on the hashbrowns (or, perhaps, that should read: "Palos Altos Fires Fighter XXXs Ghosts Peppers Sauces on the hash brown") (Thank, Brians!) and a little Pepper Palace™ Chocolate Habanero Hot Sauce (Thank, Gregs and Cindys!) on top of the omelette.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Greek Omelette No. 1 ~ 6.7
(whereas, if they did use authentic Kalamata olives in this dish, it would easily be rated at 6.9 to 7.1 on the GBS)

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1. Do not even ask me about their Sunrise (Omelette w/no country) ~ banana (yes, unfortunately, it appears that they do have "bananas" today, folks), raisins (seriously... egads!), shredded carrots, sour cream. 

Just to be fair, I have actually tried this once before on a dare (well, I dared myself to try it... but still... ), and it was even worse than it sounds. I can highly not-recommend this to anyone.

(They parenthetically call it "(Omelette w/no country)", mainly because no sane country in the World would ever admit to this as being theirs... 
not even 조선민주주의인민공화국.)

2. Of course, back in 1491, a typical Greek salad would have only included Feta, olives, onions, and cucumbers... and you could forget about a side of hashbrowns (or even "hash brown").