Mission Bar & Grill

Airport Breakfastary Food - Part VII
San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
(Saturday, 12/15/2018)

https://www.flysfo.com/content/mission-bar-grill


Place: Mission Bar & Grill

Location: Terminal 3, Boarding Area E near Gate 61, SFO; phonicular contact: 650-821-8304

Hours: open daily at 4:30am

Meal: Mediterranean Scramble ~ spinach, tomato, Feta cheese, & Kalamata olives, served with home fries & toast; and to drink, a cuppa (and one refilla) Mr. Espresso® House Roast

https://mrespresso.com/coffee/blends/

(I am pretty sure that I have juxtaselectioned this particular song before [and probably more than once], but how often is it that you get two Britishlander Kaniggets chanting about Cholula®?)


One should never travel on an empty stomach; it is always much easier and safer to travel on an airplane. So, before heading eastward to the Wonderful World of Disneylandia (Florida-chapter) for a pre-Christmas vacation last week, I made sure to fill up my stomach at Mission Bar & Grill prior to boarding the aircraft. It was even more convenient as the restaurant was located directly across from my boarding gate that morning. Unlike many restaurants at airports now-a-days, this particular establishment is specific to SFO only and does not have a corresponding in-city location from which it was borne.

Even though "Good Airport Food" is usually an oxymoron filed just under "French Politesse" and "British Cuisine" (and, as added by several of my English friends, "American Humour"), sometimes you can get lucky and find a decent breakfastary repast at airports. At this particular establishment, I could also have ordered California Scramble (Cheddar cheese, mushrooms, tomato, & avocado). Additionally, while wandering around before my flight, I saw a few good other choices at a different restaurant (Y*nkee Pier) that was located in another boarding area in this same terminal.

I suppose this meal could also easily have been called "Greek Scramble"; it included everything you would normally get from a dish of that nomenclature. Surprisingly, for a meal that was found in an airport restaurant-joint, this turned out to be a very good breakfast. It was made with lots of Feta (chunks and crumbles) and Kalamata olives (sliced, not crumbled), which was good because those two ingredients were my deciding factors in ordering it. It was also made with fresh sautéed baby spinach.  I went with sourdough for my toast choice.

After the first cuppa, I decided to make my Coffee drink into a pseudo-Caffè Borgia[1] by adding the slice of orange garnish off my plate into the mug (you can just see it peaking its ugly head over the rim in the photo above). I simply considered this my daily dose of Vitamin C(offee?).

For condimentary supplementation, Mission Bar & Grill offers both Cholula® Hot Sauce (Original) and Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce. I went with a little (well, a lot ~ to those of you that would consider several splashes more than just "a little") Cholula® on the potatoes. 


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Mediterranean Scramble ~ 6.5

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1. A "Caffè Borgia" is a Mocha with orange rind or zest and sometimes orange flavouring added. It is often served with whipped cream and topped with cinnamon. Supposably, according to legend, the Borgia family used poisoned orange zest to murder their enemies, thus resulting in everyone nicknaming this the "Caffè Borgia".

https://www.thecoffeebump.com/blog/cafe-borgia-recipe.html#.XCFYV1VKiM8