SanJalisco

(Sunday, June 3rd, 2018)

My (little ditty) Breakfast with Jack and Diane 
(well, technically, with Steve and Lisa... but there is no EweToobular juxtaselection for their names)

http://m.sanjalisco.com/


Place: SanJalisco

Location: 901 South Van Ness Street 
(on the corner of 20th Street)

Hours: open at 8:00am(??? ~ ygiagam) every day of the week (their web-site still does not show their hours on it anywhere)

Meal: (Little Johnny Cougar/me) Chilaquiles Verdes ~ tortilla bits scrambled with two large eggs, cheese, nopales, onions, and green salsa (this was a tomatillo-based salsa); 
(Jack/Steve) Chorizo con huevo ~ Mexican-style pork sausage scrambled with two large eggs;
(Diane/Lisa) Chilaquiles Remo ~ tortilla bits scrambled with two large eggs, cheese, onions, and red salsa, complemented with sauteed chicken and fresh 
Mexican-style sour cream;
all breakfast entrees are served with home-made (well, restaurante-made) [¡¡¡]corn tortillas[!!!], 
Mexican rice, and your choice of refried pinto beans (frijoles refritos), whole pinto beans, or whole black beans (I think we all opted for the refritos beans);
y beber, (Steve and Lisa) cuppas (and a refilla or two) Café de la casa, (me) a large glassa Tamarindo[1]

One of my favourite go-to spots (not named "Dottie's True blue café" or "Baker Street Bistro") to take out-of-towner-types for breakfast (or, in this case, desayuno) is SanJalisco (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, July 9th, 2016). It was a pretty sure bet that this would not be a typical Cornhusker or Mainer 
(ey-yah!) breakfast for either of them.

All day long we were extremely lucky where the Parking Gods were with us and it started first thing in the morning when we found a great (legal) spot just a half-block down the street from the restaurant.[2]

(Creciendo se fue hasta el cielo, y como no fue violín, tuvo que ser violoncello.
[Growing it reached the heavens, and since it wasn't a violin, it had to be a cello.])


There have been a few changes/upgrades since I last ate at SanJalisco. There are all new (colourful) tables and chairs. Each chair has an image from Lotería (basically Mexican Bingo) on the back of it; mine this morning was "El Violoncello" ("the Cello" ~ no stupid, useless cunning linguist pointer needed there). They have also printed new menus (and they have changed the wording a bit on many of the entries ~ probably to make them a bit more gringo-friendly) and these are also muy colorido. Thankfully, they still are serving the same ol' great food while providing extra-friendly service!

(I did not want to bother/embarrass Steve and Lisa by taking pictures of their meals. Besides, I would have had to be pretty quick to get a photo of Steve's dish, as it was gone before I was half-way through my own breakfast.)


I have had this tasty take on chilaquiles once before (and it was the very last time that I had eaten breakfast there, too). I actually prefer the (más tradicional) salsa roja for chilaquiles, but it is nice to have a salsa verde option once in a while, too. I probably shoulda mixed it up and ordered Chilaquiles Veronica (which I think I have also had before, anyway) ~ tortilla bits scrambled with two large eggs, cheese, onions, and red salsa, complemented with chorizo (¡De ninguna manera José!), nopales, and fresh Mexican-style sour cream.

There was so much food on my plate that (sadly) I only had room for two of their extremely-good homemade (well, restaurante-made) warm (as in hot off the grill) corn tortillas.

SanJalisco only offers Tapatío® Salsa Picante 
Hot Sauce for bottled hot sauce condimentary supplement use, but those are ridículamente superfluo, redundante, y inútil, anyway. Their homemade (well, restaurante-made) salsa roja is always so much more fresca y sabrosa. We used up almost the entire small bowl that was on our table. (Like most Mexican places, this salsa is brought out almost immediately when you sit down and served with some corn tortilla chips as a pre-meal snack.)


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Chilaquiles Verdes ~ 6.8
(once again, not wanting to really bother my breakfast guests any while they were eating, I did not poll them for their Glen Bacon Scale input);
homemade (well, restaurante-made) warm corn tortillas ~ 7.5;
San Francisco Giants ~ 6, 
Philadelphia Phillies ~ 1

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1. Stupid, useless cunning linguist/pseudo-horticultural pointer of the day:

"Tamarindo" is simply the Spanish word for "tamarind"* (proving once again that this cunning linguist stuff ain't always necessarily ciencia del cerebro or cirugía de cohete even). This is typically made into a drink as an aguas frescas and served all day long. It is usually a bit on the sweet side for my liking, but it does go well with the espicy Mexican foods.

*(¿Que qué, Brian?...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarind )

2, The furthest away that we ended up parking all day long (and the only time that we had to actually pay for any parking, too) was three blocks away from AT&T Park when we went to the San Francisco Giants game later in the day.