Eddie's Cafe

Legal Note: 
Once again, no Korean waiter/busboy-type persons were maimed or killed during the eating of this breakfast this morning.

(No official web-site available.)


Place: Eddie's Cafe

Location: 800 Divisadero Street (on the corner of Fulton Street); phonicular contact: (415) 563-9780

Hours: open Monday through Saturday at 7:30am; open Sunday at 8:30am (they must have changed their hours since I had eaten there last year, which I only found out this morning the hard way)

Meal: Cheddar Cheese, Onion, & Avocado 
Omelett[ sic ] ~ served with hashbrowns and (2) homemade (diner-made, whatever) biscuits; and a mugga (and a half-refilla) their house Coffee ~ served in a (your 2017-2018 NBA Champion... well, unless you happen to be from Cleveland or are a big cry-baby named "LeBron") Golden State Warriors mug

(In case you were wondering just what the h*ck the EweToobular juxtaselection is here, it is a well-known fact that meatloaf is a very popular breakfast dish in Korea.)


So, like an eedjit, I arrived at Eddie's Cafe (see last 'blog-entry from Sunday, January 7th, 2018) forty-five minutes early and had to sit in my car waiting for them to open. I had it planned so that I would arrive just around the time that I thought they were supposed to open. If it had not been raining (again) this morning, I could have walked over to Alamo Square to kill the time. Luckily, at that un-gawdly hour on a Sunday morning, parking in the neighborhood is pretty easy and I was able to park right across the street.

Once again, there was nothing really special about this omelett[ sic ], it was just your basic friendly, neighborhood Korean family-owned diner fare. It did have a good amount of diced-up avocado in it, which is nice, but I bet with some fresh-sliced jalapeños added to it, it would have been even better. I do like that they offer a choice of (plain ol') toast or (fresh-made) biscuits and a choice of either hashbrowns or greets. Of course, I opted for the fresh-baked biscuits; I can always cook my own toast at home. I stuck with hashbrowns this morning because I had brought along two different bottles of my own hot sauces and figured that one would go better with potatoes than with greets.

As far as their own condimentary supplements goes, Eddie's Cafe had just Louisiana's Pure 
Crystal® Hot Sauce at the booths and on the diner-counter, but they do also have some good Korean gochujang (available upon request). I used the second new bottle that I had received as a Christmas gift, Peaks of Otter Peppers ~ Inca Gold Hot Sauce (Thanks, Greg & Cindy!) on top of the omelett[ sic ] and used some Pepper Palace™ Chocolate Habanero Hot Sauce (Thanks, Cindy & Greg! [Who are no relation what-so-ever to the above two gifters.]) on the potatoes. The Inca Gold (Ingredients: Mango, pineapple, Red Habanero chile peppers, vinegar, salt & sugar) turned out to be only of medium heat (well, medium for me) and added a nice sweet-heat fruitiness to the omelett[ sic ].

https://www.peaksofotterpeppers.com/

On this visit, I gifted (making sure to pay for my meal first; they have this terrible tradition of comping a meal to anyone that brings in a gift mug; nice try!) them a mug from Tarpon Springs[1] (the one in Floridia, not the much more famous village in Ελλάδα) that was adorned with some swimming manatees (well, they coulda been womanatees, I could not really tell from the cartoon pictures). We had lunch one day last month in Tarpon Springs while I was vacationing in Disneylandia, and I had picked it up at one of the gift shops in town. I did spy my gifted St. Augustine mug from last year; however, I could not locate either the mug from Vien (gifted in January 2012) or the Liverpudlian mug (gifted in January 2011) among the hundreds of other gifted mugs on their shelves.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Cheddar Cheese, Onion, & Avocado Omelett[ sic ] ~ 6.0

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1. http://www.ctsfl.us/

Matching Half (Café)

Madness takes its toll... please have exact change!

https://www.matchinghalfcafe.com/


Place: Matching Half (Café)

Location: 1799 McAllister Street
(on the corner of Baker Street... no sh*t, Sherlock!)

Hours: open Monday-Friday at 7:00am, Saturday & Sunday at 7:30am

Meal: Breakfast Sandwich ~ scrambled eggs & Cheddar on brioche (bun), bagel, or bed of greens (which would be a silly choice and not even a "Sandwich" ~ "Breakfast" or "otherwise") w/ avocado; 
a homemade (well, bakery-made) Blackberry "Pop-tart" from Black Jet Baking Company; 
and another mighty-fine cuppa (pour-over style) Andytown Coffee Roasters Ethiopia Bedhatu Jibicho 

https://www.blackjetbakingco.com/

http://www.andytownsf.com/purchase/ethiopia-bedhatu-jibicho

(Luckily, we will not have to do any unnecessarily 
imposed time-warping again until Sunday, November 4th.)


I came across Matching Half (Café) last weekend after breakfast as this little corner neighborhood coffeehouse is located just across the street from green chile kitchen. I suppose you could say "... it's just a jump to the left... and then a step to the riiiiiiight!"... (Well, you could say that if you happened upon a creepy Frankenstein-place late one night.)

Because of the evil "time-warp" inflicted upon us this morning, I was able to find a decent parking spot right in front of the joint. There really wasn't much customer-activity the entire time I was there (from 7:45am-ish to 8:30am-ish), anyway. (Conclusion: Just because our time-pieces [both wall-adorned and wrist-wearing] state "7:30am", our bodies are still clinging hopelessly to the fact that it is actually "6:30am".)

My main reason for heading back that-a-way so soon again is that I noticed that Matching Half served 
Andytown Coffee Roasters as their house Coffee! Any food-stuff that they might provide thereafter would just be icing on the cake (or "Pop-tart"). Not only did I like that they offer Andytown Coffee Roasters, but they also give you several of their Coffee options (blends/roasts) from which to choose, too.

Me (to barista-dude handing me my cuppa): "So, what does 'Matching Half' mean/stand for?"
Barista-dude: "I think it is some kinda Greek mythology reference."
(Okay. Whatever that means. I left it at that.)

I really have to give kudos to both the barista-dude and the counter person-lady that took my order, they put up with a lot of inane questions (and by "a lot", I mean I bored the h*ck outta them with A LOT of stupid questions) from me about everything Coffee-related (from my unbridled exuberance for Andytown Coffee Roasters [in my opinion (and my opinion is all I care about, anyway), these guys are easily the Best Local Coffee Roasters ~ and I do not mean just "local" as in "San Francisco-local", but "local" as in "Northern California-local", and quite possibly the entire "Golden State-local"]... to Ethiopian Coffee [especially Andytown Coffee Roasters Ethiopia Natural Banko Fuafuate ~ which is truly exceptional, and currently my favourite local blend/roast]... to Snowbird Coffee [the barista-dude told me that one of their other workers also works at ★ the ★ Richfield part-time]... to Contraband Coffee... etcoffee) and baked goods-related (from Bakers of Paris for most of their bread/sandwich items... to House of Bagels™, which is where they get all their bagels [it truly is one of the better New York-style bagelries in town; even though I have actually only been to New York City just a handful of times, to me, this is what a New York bagel should taste like]).

For my sandwich, I went with the brioche bun choice 
(a wise choice, as it turned out to be ~ why the h-*-c-k would I choose the d*mn rabbit-food option?). This was a very nice bun, too. Aside from the fact that these scrambled eggs were made nookular-style in a microwavable cooking unit, this was a pretty decent sandwich (and those clowns at Mickey-D's could take a pointer or two here). It included an entire half (because the term "a whole half" is as confusing as trying to "save an hour" of sunlight) of an avocado in the sandwich.

The Blackberry "Pop-tart" was made with puff pastry from what I could discern. They offered several other flavours: Brown Sugar (which would have been a very good choice with today's meal, too), Jalapeño (let's just see Kellogg's® try and market that flavour to kids), Strawberry, nutella®, and even a PB&J one.

Now the cuppa was another truly fine output from Andytown Coffee Roasters. While this might not have been as stellar a find as their Ethiopia Natural Banko Fuafuate, it was definitely recommendation-worthy and better'n a lotta the tasteless brown-swill that is being served now-a-days at many purveyors of Coffee-joints.

For being just a neighborhood corner coffeehouse, Matching Half actually had a decent array of condimentary supplements. They had bottles of Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce (Original Red Sauce), Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce, Huy Fong Foods, Inc. Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce, Valentina® Salsa Picante, and the Pepper Plant® 
(Original California Style Hot Pepper Sauce). I did not notice all of those hot sauces until after I had finished eating and had bused my plates, though. So, I just used some more of my own Palo Alto Fire Fighters 
XXX Ghost Pepper Sauce (Thanks, Brian!) on half of the sandwich and some Dancing Dragon Cayenne Pepper Sauce (Thanks, Mom!) on the other half.

You don't have to be a sweet Transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania to know that any place that serves Andytown Coffee Roasters is andy with me, Jake!


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Breakfast Sandwich ~ 6.4;
Blackberry "Pop-tart" ~ 6.6;
Andytown Coffee Roasters Ethiopia Bedhatu Jibicho ~ 7.3 
(keeping in mind that Andytown Coffee Roasters Ethiopia Natural Banko Fuafuate comes in rocking the GBS at about 8.0-8.2)

green chile kitchen

Tamales ta-day!

Mr. XV Pay-It-Forward 
Memorial Weekend #8 (continued)

http://www.greenchilekitchen.com/


Place: green chile kitchen

Location: 1801 McAllister Street
(on the corner of Baker Street)

Hours: open for breakfast Monday - Friday at 10:00am; "Brunch" available Saturday & Sunday at 9:00am 
(now why they call the early morning meal that they serve during the week "breakfast" when they open an hour later than on the weekends is beyond me)

Meal: Migas ~ eggs, crispy tortilla strips, green chile, tomatillo avocado salsa & cotija w/ black beans; one Cheese Tamal (see, the correct singular form of this word en español is actually "tamal"; consider that a freebie stupid, useless cunning linguist pointer of the day); and a large glassa Horchata[1]

(Okay, sorry, but the completely un-PC-ocity of the 
first song notwithstanding, it did fit nicely into the whole EweToobular[2] juxtaselection of "tamales"/"tomorrow" for me. 
[Are Mexican Liberals that are easily b*tt-hurt called "Copos de Nieve"?])


Because I wanted to "wrap it all up" (corn husks or not) nicely this weekend with "tamales", etc. (see yesterday's silly li'l 'blog-entry-thing for that explanation), I made a purposeful decision to go back to green chile kitchen (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, March 18th, 2017 ~ almost exactly a year ago... well, if "almost exactly" means give-or-take a week or two). This is such a great place for desayuno ("Brunch"-ayuno, whatever)! (Why did it take me nine years to "discover" it, though?!) If I lived in the Haight (or Lower Haight or Western Addition), this place would easily be in my Breakfastary Starting Rotation; it is just that good and tasty.

I have not had one bad meal there yet (granted, it has only been four visits thus far, but even in Baseballese, that is still batting, like, .400 or such, right?!) and there are still a few more dishes that I want to try; ferexample:

Eggs & Greens (¡Pero no jamón, Sam, yo soy!) ~ scrambled eggs, sautéed greens, brown rice, avocado, & pico de gallo (add chicken / pork 2, add steak 3... ¡No, gracias! to all of those for me);

Healthy Breakfast Bowl ~ scrambled eggs, beans, chile, lettuce, guacamole & pico de gallo (add chicken / pork 2, add steak 3... again, ¡No, gracias! to all of those for me);

Huevos Rancheros ~ corn tortilla, 2 fried eggs, chile, cheese & crema, served w/ refried beans;

Flat Enchilada Plate ~ housemade (well, kitchen-made) corn tortillas, eggs, meat, chile, cheese & sour cream served w/ posole & beans (this one intrigues me the most, and if it can be made vegetarian-friendly 
[I am sure they can always omit any dead, decaying animal flesh, but I am not sure how they make their posole], I will most likely order this on my next visit... hopefully not in a year [or fifty weeks] from now).

I like that their tamales (which is the pluralization of "tamal") are made with blue corn and this one had a nice surprise of a New Mexico green chile in the middle, kinda like a New Mexican version of Twinkies® 
(well, if Twinkies® were made with corn and cheese and not some kinda plastic with silicon filling)... I would normally go with a side order of potatoes, but wanted to make sure and order some kinda tamales side-dish for this specific weekend.

This was also made with blue corn tortilla strips. While this is not exactly the same dish as Chilaquiles, it is close enough for this gringo (See? My b*tt never aches when someone calls me a "Gringo!"... besides, I have to laugh and tell them I am not of Greek ancestry.[3]) and I liked it mucho. Surprisingly, even with the addition of the tamal, this was just about the right amount of food for me. I had thought of also ordering another one of their Vegan Sweet Potato Tamal (which I had on a previous visit and really enjoyed), but that probably would have "exceeded the limit, sir!" for my appetite.

For condimentary supplements, green chile kitchen offers just Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce (Original Red Sauce) and Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce. Not that it really needed it (and I did not know ahead of time that it had the surprise filling of a green chile in it already), but I used some of my own Palo Alto Fire Fighters XXX Ghost Pepper Sauce (Thanks, Brian!) on top of the tamal. Additionally, I used the last amount of their tomatillo avocado salsa on it, too. I left the rest of the meal unencumbered (Have you ever heard of anyone "encumbering" something?) with superfluous additions as their standard green chile salsa on the Migas was plenty tasty enough without me m*cking-it-up in any way with unnecessary modifications.

Mr. XV Pay-It-Forward Memorial Weekend #8 (continued) Interlude

For today's paying-it-forward activity, I gave away two boxes of Girl Scouts Cookies. They were still selling them in front of a local Safeway and I decided to buy two more for myself. While I was inside, I had the great idea to use these as my "random acts of kindness" for the day. (Well, knowing that I still had about 6-1/2 boxes left over from the nine boxes that I had already purchased over the past three weekends. Sure, it is illegal to sell drugs in a school-zone, but how do Girl Scouts get away with selling these addictive treats in front of stores to unwitting dupes like me?!) Anyway, after doing my weekly grocery shopping, while at the check-out counter I asked the cashier-lady if she would like a box of cookies and she accepted one (I gave her the choice of either s'mores or do-si-dos, she wisely went with the s'mores). I then asked the bagger-guy if he would like the other box, but he politely declined. (Who passes up on free Girl Scouts cookies?!!!) No worries, I figured I would just have to "suffer" and bring them home to eat myself. As I was leaving, I could not resist picking up yet still another box (for anyone keeping count, this made my twelfth box of cookies from these street-side baked-goods pushers!) of s'mores for myself. Then I saw a homeless guy on the sidewalk in front of the store and asked if he would like one of the boxes of cookies. He wisely (for me, at least) chose the box of do-si-dos (leaving me with another box of s'mores all to my ownsome! Yay!).

As for yesterday's paying-it-forward activity, I simply gave $10.00 to the barista/counter-person-lady at one of the Andytown Coffee Roasters shops and told her that the next two or three drinks were on me. ("$10.00, Brian? But wouldn't that pay for more like four to five Coffee drinks?" Trust me, that may barely pay for two or three drinks there. I love Andytown Coffee Roasters drinks, but they are NOT cheap.)

http://www.andytownsf.com/


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Migas ~ 6.6 (this is factoring in the side of black beans and their really tasty tomatillo avocado salsa);
Cheese Tamal ~ 7.3;
Horchata ~ 7.0

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1. ¿Qué?

Now here is where I could go into a long, boring "stupid, useless cunning linguist pointer of the day", but that would probably take several days and cost thousands of lives. So, instead, I am just "borrowing" this explanation from from the friendly folks at WikipediA:

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

In most Mexican restaurants (well, at least most of the ones here in San Francisco that I have frequented), Horchata is generally made of rice, water, sugar, and cinnamon. 

(Sideways-note, to anyone suffering from Spring-Summer cravings: Horchata makes for a very tasty hot beverage on a bitterly cold Nor'eastery kinda night.)

2. Okay, so just exactly when did EweToob change the looks of their logo? 

Also from the friendly folks at WikipediA:
"On August 29, 2017, EweToob launched a new logo, typeface, color scheme and other changes to the appearance of its desktop and mobile app."

Well, I don't care, I am sticking with the older version as it looks cooler to me.

3. I wonder if people in Greece say, "It's all Spanish to me!"

(Look it up yerd*mnself to get that stupid joke[?]!)

(Hmmmm?! On second thought, maybe I shouldn't oughtta have used a "b*tt-ache" reference in the same sentence as "Greek" above.)

Eddie's Cafe

Note: No Korean waiter/busboy-type persons were maimed or killed during the eating of this breakfast this morning.

(No official web-site available.)


Place: Eddie's Cafe

Location: 800 Divisadero Street (on the corner of Fulton Street); phonicular contact: (415) 563-9780

Hours: open Sunday through Saturday at 7:30am (closed every other day of the week)

Meal: Vegetable Omelett[ sic ] ~ with added avocado and (real!) Cheddar cheese, served with hashbrowns and (2) homemade (café-made, whatever) biscuits; and a mugga (and one refilla) their house Coffee ~ served in a (your 2016-2017 NBA Champion... well, unless you happen to be from Cleveland or named "LeBron") Golden State Warriors mug

(What is the EweToobular juxtaselection for today? Simples! Everyone knows that Michael Paré [Wow! Who knew he could sing that well? He shoulda had a singing role in that "Streets on Fire" movie, too!] is a big fan of omeletts[ sic ].)


Like yesterday's meal, today's breakfastary destination was another completely premeditated coddiwompling (moronic oxen be d*mned still!). I had picked up a Coffee cup during my recent Christmas vacation trip to Florida to specifically be gifted to Eddie's Cafe (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, January 7th, 2012 ~ now, what are the odds?! ~ that was exactly six years ago today). I initially had planned on getting a nice gift cup/mug from Historic Olde St. Augustine, but put it off too long while we were there and ended up just getting a chintzy, all-inclusive Florida cup/mug at a roadside combined fruit stand/candy shop/gift shop. At least it came with its own matching ceramic teaspoon (... which is nice). Even so, the Korean owner/manager guy still appreciated it. I made sure to wait until after I had already paid for my meal before giving it to them; they have this nasty habit of comping your meal if you bring in a gift cup/mug... no one gives Brian a free meal! D*mmit!

... wait... that is a good thing... right?!

Oh, okay, so maybe next time...

Once again, I sat at their diner-counter... all the better to view the hundreds(?) of other gifted Coffee cups/mugs on the shelves along the back walls.

There really is nothing much special about the food that is served at this local corner diner-ish place. It is just that this little (Korean) family-owned restaurant has a great friendly, neighborhood atmosphere to it and that is always a good reason to return (even if it might take six years to do so).

One thing I did like about the meal this morning was that it was named "Vegetable" (not "Veggie" ~ uggh!) Omelett[ sic ] (so they can be forgiven any mispelinks [besides, no Glen Bacon Scale points are ever deducted for type-o's... or Type AB Negatives, even]). The vegetables in the omelette included: tomatoes, green bell peppers, onions, and mushrooms. I mentioned 
"(real!) Cheddar cheese" in the description above because many little diner-type places will tell you they use "Cheddar cheese" in their food, but it usually ends up just being that faux yellow "cheese-product" stuff. I also like that they offer a choice of toast or homemade (café-made, whatever) biscuits (yeah, that was a no-brainer choice for this no-brain; I can cook my own toast at home). Plus, they give you three good side-choices of hashbrowns, homefries, or greets (I have never had their homefries before; maybe next time I will order those if I get a freebie meal).

Eddie's Cafe only has bottles of Louisiana's Pure 
Crystal® Hot Sauce on the diner-top and at the booths (they do also have a hidden supply of Gochujang for use if you ask... I only know this because I have asked in the past). It really did not matter what they had to offer; I had brought some more of my own new additions to my (ridiculously, ever-growing) collection of hot sauces. Because I had only used a few drops of Tijuana Flats Tex-Mex 
Smack My *ss and Call Me Santa (Thanks again, Rick!) yesterday, I brought it with me again today to use in full force, where I went very liberally (okay, maybe it was more of a fake-Republican, very stable genius usage) on the omelette and some H*ll's Kitchen® 
Smoky Bourbon Hot Sauce[1] (Thanks, Mom!) on the hashbrowns.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Vegetable Omelett ~ 6.1;
Friendly, neighborhood atmosphere ~ 7.8

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1. This was another new/Christmas gift that I was trying out for the first time. It included a set of five (5!!!) more d*mn hot sauces to take up space on my refrigerator door shelves.

(I have a sneaking suspition [and how come no one ever has an "overt suspition"?] that my mother may have purchased this set at a local W*lmarts. Not only does she know that I have put a moratorium on any new hot sauces until I can use up about half of what I already have clogging up my refrigerator door shelves, but she explicitly knows that I also absolutely loathe giving any money to those Chinese-owned b*stages at W*lmart!)

https://www.ebay.com/i/182985212369?chn=ps

Brenda's Meat & Three

http://brendasmeatandthree.com/


Place: Brenda's Meat & Three

Location: 919 Divisadero Street 
(between McAllister Street and Golden Gate Avenue)

Hours: open everyday[ sic ] except Tuesday at 8:00am (they call the early morning meal breakfast for everyday usage, but insist on calling it "Brunch" on Saturday & Sunday; they can be forgiven for using that snooty-*ssed faux breakfastary term because they open up plenty early enough for me and their food has always been very good)

Meal: Eggs Florentine with Creole Hollandaise ~ two poached eggs on our famous cream biscuit, served with greets or hash(browns); and a tall glassa Grandma's Molasses-Black Walnut Iced Coffee ~ topped with whipped cream

("Hey, Brian, what gives ('Gibbs'?)? There ain't no one named 'Brenda' in 'Romeo [or Romeu] and Juliet [or Julieta]'!" 

Well, here is a little-known Cliff Clavinistic fact. Wild Bill Shakespeare was originally gonna title his famous tragedy-play about these two young star-crossed lovers "Bill and Brenda's Excellent Adventure", but did not want to feel the wrath of Keanu Reeves for that obvious bit of titular plagiarism.[1])


Of course, my going back to a restaurant with a name like Brenda's Meat & Three (see last 'blog-entry from Sunday, February 22nd, 2015), would be like a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan returning to a local bar/restaurant named "Connecticut Y*nkee"[2].

This Western Addition location had virtually no line and no wait to get in this morning. I arrived at 7:55am, found a parking space directly in front, and there were only two groups/tables ahead of me. Even then, it was only about one-third filled when I had finished eating. On the other hand, (on the other side of town) their Tenderloin location rivals Dottie's True blue café for ridiculously long lines and longer wait times.

There are also fewer items offered at this spot than at their Tenderloin restaurant, but I would still like to check out Fried "Veggie" (ugh!) Po' Boy ~ cornmeal-fried cauliflower, yam & okra with lettuce, tomato, bread & butter pickles (which are homemade... well, restaurant-made; they even sell these in jars for take-home use ~ I know this because I bought me a jarra them, plus a jarra pickled watermelon, too) & vegan chipotle rémoulade, choice of fries or cole slaw. Additionally, on their weekend "Brunch Specials" board they had Bananas Foster French Toast, which I have had at their Tenderloin location and knew to be very good, but I wanted to try something different this morning (besides, I just had a "sweet breakfast" yesterday). Unfortunately for me, they no longer offer Sweet Potato Pancakes (topped with butter pecan sauce). Oh, well. You snooze, you looze(ianna).

I prefer a good N'Arlins-style Coffee with roasted chicory, but this was not that bad. It had a very interesting flavour and was good enough to be served as a dessert, and not overly sweet either. I bet it would also make a very good hot Coffee drink, too.

While this dish may not be "My Favourite 'New' Eggs Benedict Dish of 2017" (see 'blog-entry from Sunday, September 17th, 2017 for that particular honourific), it was one of the better Eggs Benedict dishes (new or old) that I have had this year. There were two major pluses (as opposed to one Captain Minus) in this dish: the Creole Hollandaise was very tasty (but not extremely spicy) and I really liked the cream biscuit (one, split in half) as the base (in lieu of ol' Mr. Thomas' faux crumpets-things). Not that I would ever attempt to make this at home, (and I am sure that Popeye would "Blow me down!" if he ever heard me say this) but I bet it would have been even better (and more Loozianna-ey) with either collard, turnip, or mustard greens (take your pick; I likes 'em all) in place of the spinach.

I went with the greets side-choice and was asked if I wanted it "with cheese". H*ck, yeah! This came out with a whole mess o'  (I have never heard of a "half mess o'") Cheddar cheese melted all over the top.

For condimentary supplementation, Brenda's Meat & Three only has Crystal® Louisiana's Pure Hot Sauce on all the tables. I came prepared with a few of my own hot sauces and only used a little (well, it poured out quickly, so it ended up being a lot) Dragon's Lair Extra Hot Cayenne & Habanero Hot Sauce (Thanks, Mon!) mixed in with the cheesy greets. I made sure to taste their Creole Hollandaise before messing it up with any extra spiciness and determined it was good enough as is.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Eggs Florentine with Creole Hollandaise ~ 7.0;
Grandma's Molasses-Black Walnut Iced Coffee ~ 6.9

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1. Nah! I had both of these songs in mind yesterday, but just didn't feel like posting five EweToob videos in one 'blog-entry.

Besides, I just happen to believe that Mark Freuder ("Freuder"?) Knopfler, OBE, is one of America's* finest songwriter/musicians of the 20th Century.

http://www.markknopfler.com/

*(Yeah, okay, he's really Glaswegian-born and Geordie-raised, but that is almost the same as being 'merican. Just ask anyone from Great Britannia, they will agree with me 100%.)

2. Which is actually a local San Francisco Boston/New England Sports-fan bar/hangout.

http://www.pourguys.com/connecticut-yankee/

I probably should check them out for "Brunch" one of these days. I used to work right across the street from the restaurant for about fifteen years, and have had lunch and dinner there plenty of times.

green chile kitchen

No guru, no method, no teacher... 
and no d*mn dead, decaying porcine junk!!!

http://www.greenchilekitchen.com/


Place: green chile kitchen

Location: 1801 McAllister Street
(on the corner of Baker Street)

Hours: open for breakfast Monday - Friday at 9:00am; "Brunch" available Saturday & Sunday at 9:00am

Meal: Savory Breakfast Sopaipillas  ~ eggs, cheese & chile w/ choice of beans (black, pinto, or refried; I went with black beans this morning; I was told that this also came with a side of bacon, but it was not listed on the menu; of course, I ochenta y seis-ed that stuff right away); a side of roasted potatoes; and a large glassa sandia agua fresca

(The first song/video is just my paean to Spring [the Vernal Equinox is only two days away, folks]. Besides, I never need an excuse for a Sir George Ivan song. [Thanks, Skip, for posting this song on defacedbook! I highly recommend listening to the entire 1986 album to everyone if you get the chance.]

There really is no juxtaselection with the second song/video. They were playing a version of this song on the house stereo this morning. This was comida nueva mexicana, not comida cubana, after all. I have been told that the song is a bit "risqué" [o "arriesgado" en español]; just think of it as a Cumbia[2] version of "Brown Sugar".)


It did not take me another year-and-a-half to get back to green chile kitchen (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, June 25th, 2016) this time. After claiming them as my "New Find for 2015", I probably shoulda had gotten back at least two to three times by now. And unlike some other places "way across town", it really does not take much time getting over to that part of the Western Addition/Lower Haight. Hopefully, I will remember this place if I am ever in a pinch for a good breakfast and don't feel like driving too far.

They have changed their breakfast/"Brunch" menu a bit since my last visit and no longer offer Huevos Motuleños or Quelites & Eggs (or, more likely, I think that they may have just changed the name of this one to "Eggs & Greens" so as not to confuse us gringos estúpidos). I was fully planning on opting for the Huevos Motuleños, but, luckily, they still offer many other good options for vegetarians and meatetarians alike; suchas:

Migas ~ eggs, crispy tortilla strips, green chile, tomatillo avocado salsa & cotija. served w/ black beans (I just had a version of this last week or I probably mighta woulda ordered this);

Huevos Rancheros ~ corn tortilla, 2 fried eggs, chile, cheese & crema. served w/ refried beans

or

Breakfast Flat Enchilada Plate ~ housemade corn tortillas, eggs, meat, chile, cheese & crema. served w/ posole & beans (I would have to order that without the dead, decaying animal flesh and possibly no posole, depending on how they prepare their posole).

This was another good breakfast output from green chile kitchen and yet another reason that I will be going back again one of these days. When I ordered my meal, the counter-lady (this doesn't mean that she is related to Caitlyn Jenner or sexually ambiguous, she just works at the cash register at the front counter) person asked if I wanted the green chile to be "Mild", "Medium", or "Hot". (Hmmmm?! Seeing as these are green chillies, I probably shoulda stylistically coulorized that as: "Mild", "Medium", or "Hot".) I wasn't too sure how hot their "Hot" was going to be, but I went with that heat-level, anyway. This ended up being only los gringos picante, if you ask me. It was still pretty tasty, all the same (or "not all the different").

Initially, I was worried that this might all be a little too much food for my appetite with the additional side of potatoes, but I ended up finishing every bite. (Of course, my lunch I did skip, Mr. Way.)

green chile kitchen has Tabasco® Brand Hot Sauce (Original Red Sauce) and Tapatio® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce for bottled hot sauce condimentary supplementation. However, I did see that they had several plastic squeeze bottles of M♥nroe's Red Chile Honey. Now that looked too good to pass up. I really didn't have anything to try it on, so I figured I would just squeeze some on top of my potatoes to make them a bit sweet-savoury. BIG mistake. Kids, I would NOT recommend trying this combination at home. It really was pretty 'orrible. I ended up dousing the remains with some of my own Dat'l Do-it® Zesty Chipotle Hot Sauce (Thanks, Mom!), which I am very glad I had thought to bring with me. ("You brought your own hot sauces to a place called green chile kitchen, Brian?... Do you also bring your own Brown Ale with you when you visit the most populous city of Tyneside conurbation?!") However, even with the additional chipotle flavour, the potatoes were pretty much a lost cause ('cause I am such an idiot); I did finish them all, anyway; they were still potatoes, after all. Later, I asked the counter-lady person what the Red Chile Honey would normally be used with and she said it is good on plain (not savoury-stuffed) sopaipillas.

(I wonder if this little guy knows Chilli Willy.)

http://www.monroeschile.com/


Pre-breakfastary Coffee break interlude

This morning, before even heading out for breakfast, I made me uppa cuppa Bettys Kenyan Karatina ~ Single Origin Ground Coffee. A BIG Thanks once again, Greg & Cindy! (These two are not related in any way to the "Cindy & Greg" that I had to schlep-around town last weekend.) This was another "new" roast/blend for me from Bettys; it was another truly stellar Coffee. They have this listed as a "Medium Roast", but I found it to be more than robust (even if it actually  was made from Arabica beans [Okay, that is just a little Coffee-geek humour; and now I have used that stupid joke three times today already.]).

https://www.bettys.co.uk/kenyan-karatina-single-origin-coffee


Glen Bacon Scale Rating: 
Savory Breakfast Sopaipillas  ~ 6.5;
Bettys Kenyan Karatina ~ 7.5 (for a Britishlander tearoom kinda joint, this place really does offer great Coffees)

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1. Stupid, useless cunning linguist/(but mostly) culinaristic pointer of the day:

American Spanish, equivalent to Spanish sopaip(a) fritter or thick pancake soaked in honey (earlier also xopaipa < Mozarabic, derivative of šúppa, súppa piece of bread soaked in oil, Spanish sopa < Germanic; see sop, soup ) + -illa diminutive suffix

Additional information stolen... er... borrowed from our friends at WikipediA (besides, you know they also "borried" it from someplace else):

"Sopapillas in New Mexican cuisine are distinct from Latin American sopapaillas. New Mexican sopapillas are pillow-shaped fried pastry dough. They are typically served as a bread, and used to mop up sauces, scoop up tidbits, or shredded into stews. They often serve as a quick meal in themselves, filled with savory ingredients such as ground beef. They are sometimes eaten as a dessert, drizzled with honey or anise syrup, but are often eaten this same way during the meal itself as New Mexican cuisine tends to be very spicy and sweet syrups reduce the sensations of heat."

2. ¿Qué?

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