the Cavalier

'blog-post-thing #999

https://thecavaliersf.com/


Place: the Cavalier

Location: 360 Jessie Street 
(on the corner of 5th Street; about half-way between Market and Mission Streets)

Hours: breakfast served from 7:00am (Saturday-Friday)

Meal: Breakfast Sandwich ~ fried hen (they feel the need to specify this on the menu, too) egg, crispy bacon (they do not specify if this bacon was of the porcine variety, but they were nice enough to 86 the dead, decaying fried-up pork butt and substitute it for some sliced avocado), peppercress, shallot and mustard dressing; a side of Crispy Potatoes; and, to drink, a blackcurrant, ginger and lime refresher (which came with a new-retro paper straw)


For only my third visit, I returned to the Cavalier (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, June 2nd, 2018). This is a really nice fancy little joint, but it is mostly hidden away on a dead-end alley off 5th Street, and if you are not staying at the hotel that it is attached to, you might not even know that it was there.

I have basically had all of the main items off of their breakfast menu that are stupid vegetarian-suitable now. There is one starter that I will probably have to order on my next visit: Earl Grey and Honey Scone (elderflower jelly and clotted cream).

Additionally, they do offer a Shakshuka dish on their "Weekend Brunch" menu; however, I would really have to feel like heading downtown after 10:00am on a Saturday or Sunday to order that dish.

This was not yer crazy Uncle Ronald's ol' Eggamuffin dealie. The Dijon mustard and shallot dressing really made this one stand out. Unfortunately, the size of the bun and the amount of peppercress on top of the fried (hen) egg forced me to eat the sandwich all posh Britishlander-style with a knife and fork.

The side order of Crispy Potatoes ended up being free because the manager/waiter-guy that took my order this morning forgot to initially put in my order for them and he told me that they would be comping me for those. (Nice! Free potatoes is always a great way to start the weekend.) And these are really very good homefries, and worth ordering all on their ownsome, anyway. They are extra crispy, but not greasy in the least (or the most). The manager/waiter-guy explained to me how they were made: they half-boil the potatoes first, then smoosh (his actual culinaristic term) the potatoes to break them up a bit, and then deep fry them to a nice crispy, golden brown.

For condimentary supplementation, the Cavalier 
only offers Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce 
(Original Red Sauce). It really did not matter as I had come packing some of my own hot sauces. I used some (sparingly, just a few drops or so) 
Chelsea Fire Wicked. Hot. Sauce.® (Thanks, Sha'!) on the sandwich and some Dixie Crossroads 
Hot Habañero[ sic ] Pepper Sauce (Thanks, Brian!) 
on the potatoes.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Breakfast Sandwich ~ 6.5;
blackcurrant, ginger and lime refresher ~ 7.0;
Crispy Potatoes ~ 7.2