Riverside Cafe

Wareham, MA
(Saturday, 07/21/2018)

(Still no official web-site thing.)


Place: Riverside Cafe[1]

Location:  189 Main Street, Wareham, MA;
phonicular contact: (508) 295-2050

Hours: open daily at 6:00am

Meal(s): (me) Veggie Breakfast Melt ~ with spinach, tomato, cheese, and egg, served with home fries, fruit, or beans (I went with the smart potatoey choice); (Bruce Ozella[2]) scrambled eggs and (whole wheat) toast; (Kerry) Florentine Omelet ~ spinach, tomatoes or mushrooms, and Mozzarella cheese, served with toast and home fries or fruit (Kerry went with the fungi and potati choices and an English muffin); (Mom) Bolo do caco (Madeiran sweet potato bread [this is basically the Portuguese version of an English muffin]; thankfully, she chose something other than raisin toast for a change) ~ and they give you the option of having this toasted or grilled (Mom went with the grilled choice);
and to drink: (me) a cuppa (and one refilla) New England® Coffee Coconut Macaroon; (Kerry & Bruce) cuppas (and refillas) whatever the standard house Coffee was; and (Mom) a cuppa some kinda tea (I really did not pay attention)

https://www.newenglandcoffee.com/product/coconut-macaroon/

("Chocolate Raspberry"?! "But, Brian, that was not what you said you had." Yeah, yeah, yeah... just read along in the d*mn 'blog-thing.)

(So, what is the EweToobular juxtaselection here? Apparently, Glenn Shorrock is a fan of Coconut Macaroon Coffee [but secretly wishes he had ordered Chocolate Raspberry Coffee], too.)


I have breakfastarily eaten at Riverside Cafe (see last 'blog-entry from Thursday, June 1st, 2017) several times now. I can honestly say this is the Best Breakfast Place on Main Street, Wareham. (Okay, to be fair, I think it is currently the only breakfastary joint on Main Street, Wareham, but, even so, it is still a very good place for breakfast if you are ever in Wareham ~ "the Gateway to Cape Cod" ~ and do not feel like venturing much further than their Main Street.)

What can I really say about this meal? It was a grilled cheese sandwich with scrambled eggs and  spinach and tomatoes in it. I liked it. Their homefries are very good, too.

For condimentary supplementation, sitting on the table right in front of me was a bottle of Burman's® Original Hot Sauce. So I used some of it on the homefries. I was not familiar with this particular brand of hot sauce; it reminded me a lot of either Crystal® Louisiana's Pure Hot Sauce or any other similar Louisiana-style hot sauce. I did also see bottles of Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce for use on other tables, too.

(another not so very) Strange Coffee Interlude

I really was hoping to try the Chocolate Raspberry Coffee which was pictured in the front window as the Coffee of the Month; however, sadly, I was told that they were already out of that flavour for this month... D*mn you, Coffee Gods! Either way, the Coconut Macaroon was still a decent enough cuppa.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Veggie Breakfast Melt ~ 6.4;
New England® Coffee Coconut Macaroon ~ 6.5 (but I bet the Chocolate Raspberry woulda been at least 6.7)

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1. And which "River" might this be alongside? That would be the Mighty Wareham River (which is all of about two miles long ~ starting at Parker Mills Pond and ending at a Buzzards Bay estuary... or possibly the vice-a-versa; h*ck, even the Weweantic* River is about seventeen miles long).

*(Stupid, useless cunning linguist/pseudo-geographical/pseudo-historical pointer of the day:

"Weweantic" means "wandering stream" in the Wampanoag language. [However, my brother Nick likes to tell people that it means: "You wee-wee on your side of the river, I wee-wee on my side of the river, and nobody wee-wees in the middle." ~ after the actual place name Lake Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg.])

2. You woulda expected him to order something with spinach in it at least.

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