PoTRERO GRiLL

Airport Breakfastary Food - Part V
San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
(Saturday, 07/14/2018)


https://www.flysfo.com/content/potrero-grill


Place: PoTRERO GRiLL

Location:  International Terminal, Main Hall Food Court (near Boarding Area G), SFO

Hours: open daily at 6:00am

Meal: Garden Omelet ~ zucchini, bell peppers (red, green, & yellow), mushrooms, onions, served with toast & potatoes; and a medium cuppa Jamaica Blue Mountain from Roasting Plant Coffee

https://roastingplant.com/


An army may travel best on its stomach, but I much prefer travelling in an airplane. (And what kinda silly army marches along like a worm, anyway?) As such, on my most recent trip back to Massachusetts (and Cape Cod and the like), I had to pass through San Francisco International Airport once again. My initial intent was to eat at Samovar® (see previous 'blog-entry from Sunday, July 1st, 2018). However, I rudely found out after heading all the way over to the International Terminal, Main Hall Food Court (via AirTrain from Terminal 2) that they do not open for breakfast until... well, according to their web-site, they may not even be open for breakfast or lunch or dinner without a reservation. A reservation for an airport food-joint? Really?!

Anyway, as long as I was already in the International Terminal, Main Hall Food Court, I decided to make do with whatever else might be open before 7:00am. Luckily, that whatever else was PoTRERO GRiLL and they were open and serving breakfast... without any reservations! I had specifically gone to this food court because the choices are normally better and offer more from which to choose than at the other terminals. I even made sure to get to the airport two hours early to make sure I had enough time to get there and have a decent breakfast before the six hour non-stop plane-ride.

This turned out to be a pretty simple ~ but surprisingly good (for airport grub-fare) ~ omelette. All of the "garden" vegetables were grilled before putting them inside the omelette. 

I went with whole wheat as my toast choice. Once again I was mysteriously served three halves of toast. I do not know why, though.

The potatoes were of the homefries variety and were also very good. These were also made with bell peppers (red, green, & yellow) and onions in them.

For condimentary supplementation, PoTRERO GRiLL offered Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce 
(Original Red Sauce) and two different brands of Sriracha hot sauces: Huy Fong Foods Inc. (in squeeze-bottles) and Shing Kee® (in single use packets). I singularly used three packets of the Shing Kee® on the homefries.

(not so) Strange Coffee Interlude

The major discovery at the International Terminal, Main Hall Food Court was a new(-ish?) Coffee joint called Roasting Plant Coffee. Not only do they make every cuppa fresh-ground for you, they have some very excellent varieties from which to choose. For only $2.00 more per cuppa, they even offer a Jamaica Blue Mountain (and if you know how much a standard pound of this stuff goes for, $2.00 extra per cuppa is a great bargain). Now this particular blend/roast may not have been as tasty as what Bettys sells, but it was far superior to most other Coffees which you might find at your local coffeehouse (especially if your local coffeehouse starts with an "S" and ends with "ucks"). So this more than made up for not making reservations for tea...


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Garden Omelet ~ 6.3 (this is factoring in their very good homefries);
Roasting Plant Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain ~ 7.7