Just For You bakery & cafe

https://www.justforyoucafe.com/


Place: Just For You bakery & cafe

Location: 732 22nd Street 
(between 3rd and Tennessee Streets)

Hours: open Monday-Friday at 7:30am, 
Saturday-Sunday at 8:00am for "Brunch" 

Meal: Greek Scramble ~ 3 eggs with Feta cheese, onions, spinach, tomato, and Kalamata olives, served with choice of bread (a HUGE chunka cornbread was my choice this morning) and choice of sides (the chosen side was homefries); and, to drink, a cuppa (and one refilla ~ they kept offering me more, but I did not want to be awake all day) good N'Arlins-style Community Coffee® with roasted chicory

https://www.communitycoffee.com/products/coffee/32-oz-ground-coffee-and-chicory

(These two old guys do a pretty decent cover of Them's original Garage Rock classic.)

("Hey, Brian, just who the h*ck was that guy that introduced Laura Brannigan?"... Shirley, you must be joking. 

"And, Brian, what is up with the dazzling duo of 'Gloria' songs?"... Well, as far as I know, there are not any EweToobular juxtaselections between Greek Scrambles and anyone named "Gloria". I just happened to be listening to a CD of Blues Traveler live performances [Thanks, Greg!] to and from the restaurant this morning and ol' Pop-man done sang that Them version of "Gloria" hisd*mnself. Of course, there is always the possibility that Sir George Ivan and/or little Johnnie Hooker are fans of Hellenic egg dishes, too.)


I say this every time that I go to Just For You bakery & cafe (see last 'blog-entry from Sunday, April 1st. 2018... no foolin') for breakfast, if it was not all the way cross-town, it would easily be in my Breakfastary Starting Rotation. (And, yes, while the restaurant is still in the same city in which I live, even early on a Saturday morning with no real traffic of which to speak, it still took me about a half-hour to forty minutes drive over there.)

Not that there was really anything that I considered ordering, but on the weekends, they offer several items on a separate printed Today's Specials menu. Off which, Today's offerings were:

Blueberry Lemon Mimosa! (They added the explanation point there!) ~ Our 16oz mimosa with fresh blueberry lemon thyme syrup, blueberries & lemon wedge! Ask your server for other flavors! (See, they kinda like them explanation points!);

Corned Beef Hash! (Again, with the explanation point?! Apparently, they do not have Elaine Marie Benes editing their printings!) ~ Homemade (well, bakery & cafe-made) Corned beef hash with peppers, onions & potatoes served with two eggs any style & choice of bread. (Hmmm?! Someone seems to have missed the explanation point at the end of that sentence!);

Chicken Apple Scramble! (I will not even mention the addition of the explanation point here!) ~ Three egg scramble with chicken apple sausage, cherry tomatoes, arugula, mushrooms & blue cheese. Served with home fries or grits, and choice of homemade (again, bakery & cafe-made) bread.

Clam Linguine! (Maybe the exclamation point is standard in Italiano!) ~ A homemade (you know the drill) wine butter sauce with clams, shallots, fresh basil, and tomato over linguine pasta, topped with parmesan cheese. Served with a small green salad.;

and lastly(!)

Pastrami Benedict! (Whatever!) ~ Hot Pastrami, spinach & tomato topped with poached eggs & hollandaise sauce over choice of bread (They do not specify here if it is "homemade" or not!). Served with home fries or grits.(!)

Having already run the gamut (and, I will have you know, that I did it in under 10-minute miles!) of viable st*pid vegetarian-friendly dishes off their standard weekend All-Day "Brunch" menu (which is really pretty extensive), I simple went with a choice that I knew was very good and that I liked a lot. Of course, once again, this was a great meal and a whole lotta food. The portion of homefries was enough to feed two people and the HUGE hunka cornbread was almost too much for me to finish it all (but I did!). If I had one minor quibble with this morning's meal, it was that the scramble-mess was a bit light on both the amount of Feta and Kalamata olives in it.

As has been documented many times in the past (so I am not gonna do so again in the present), Just For You bakery & cafe offers one of the best selections of condimentary supplementation in the city. Oddly enough, even so, I  used some of my own Old St. Augustine Datil Pepper Sauce (Thanks, Greg & Cindy!) on the potatoes and some H*ll's Kitchen Sriracha Chili Hot Sauce (Thanks, Mom!) on the scrambled stuff. I also grinded several grinds of The Spice & Tea Exchange® Pirate's Bite Spice Blend (Thanks, Cindy!) all over everything.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Greek Scramble ~ 6.6 (with the sufficient amount of Feta and Kalamata olives, I think that I normally would rate this as 6.7 or 6.8);
Community Coffee® with roasted chicory ~ 6.8

Split ~ American Kitchen

https://www.spliteats.com/


Place: Split ~ American Kitchen

Location: 2300 Polk Street 
(at the corner of Green Street)

Hours: open for Weekday Breakfast (Monday - Friday) 9:00am, open for "Brunch" on Weekends (Saturday and Sunday) 9:00am

Meal: Grilled Little Gems[1] & Sunny-Side Up Eggs ~ grilled little gem lettuces, two pasture eggs, avocado, applewood smoked bacon (which I had 86-ed, natch'), Sriracha ranch, topped with breadcrumbs; a side of Crispy Butterball Potatoes[2]; and, to drink with the meal, a glassa orange juice

(I will let you all infer your own EweToobular juxtaselection from this song. I remember when this song was originally played on the radio. Man, is this song old!)


Having now (double-dippingly) exhausted all of the restaurants in my Breakfastary Starting Rotation over the last month and a half, I decided to check out a new (to me, at least, and relatively newly opened, anyway) restaurant and headed over to eat at Split ~ American Kitchen on ol' Roosky Kholm. I first espied them a few months ago when I was having lunch at a nearby joint along Polk Street; after lunch, I walked around the neighborhood a bit and "discovered" a few more places that seemed breakfastarily sound.

The first thing I asked myself was "Why is this place called 'Split'?" It did not look like they specialized in any specifically Croatian food items. I suppose that I probably could have asked one of the front-counter employees this question, but I forgot to ask it. With a little digging on their web-site, apparently they used to be called "Split Bread" (possibly some kinda local bakery?), but abbreviated and changed the name "... to convey the broader array of delicious menu items we now offer." There are two other locations in downtown San Francisco: one on 4th Street over by Yerba Buena Gardens and another one just a few blocks away on Mission Street between 1st and 2nd Streets.

As for any other ideas (at least viable options for st*pid vegetarian-types), I saw a few other good menu-entries:

Fried Egg Sandwich ~ two pasture eggs, aged Cheddar, arugula, on a toasted challah bun (which I assume they bake themselves);

Huevos Rancheros ~ two pasture eggs over easy, tostadas, avocado, aged Cheddar, black beans, shredded lettuce (they do not specify if this is shredded "little gems", though), homemade ranchero sauce, cilantro, lime crema;

Shroom Scramble ~ sautéed mushrooms, herbed goat cheese, kale, chives;

or

Design Your Own Scramble ~ three pasture eggs with your choice of three ingredients: applewood smoked bacon, homemade pork sausage, chicken apple sausage, Mexican chorizo, roasted red pepper, sautéed onion, kale, sautéed mushrooms, avocado, cherry tomatoes, aged Cheddar, herbed goat cheese, or Parmesan; served with Mixt greens side salad.

I was happy to see that this was a pretty basic and clean dish, which was perfect because I really did not feel like another big, heavy scrambled dish like yesterday. The two sunnyside-up eggs were on top of a whole mess o' sliced avocado (easily half an avocado or more); the avocado slices were on top of the nicely charred/caramelized halves of lettuce heads; and all of that was sitting atop a very nice Sriracha-ranch sauce. Of course, with the side of Crispy Butterball Potatoes, it all ended up being a pretty filling meal all the same. The potatoes were excellent, too. These were halved and deep-fried (whatever the h*ck a "Butterball" potato is supposed to be) potatoes ~ making for a nice crispy outside shell and a creamy (potatoey, whatever) inside.

As for any condimentary supplements, Split had bottles of Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce and Huy Fong Foods Inc. (I did have to ask to have that specific brand confirmed) Sriracha HOT Chili Sauce (in a large rectangular tin ketchup-style push-pump dispenser-thing). I used some of my own H*ll's Kitchen Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce (Thanks, Mom!), but just a few drops on top of each of the egg-yolks, and some Old St. Augustine Datil Pepper Sauce (Thanks, Greg & Cindy!), where I liberally doused a lot more on the potatoes. Additionally, I grinded several grinds of The Spice & Tea Exchange® Florida Sunshine Spice Blend (Thanks, Cindy!) all over the eggs and grilled lettuce, and potatoes.


Crafty Coffee Confabulation Interlude

Before breakfast, I stopped in at Saint Frank Coffee (which was just down the block from Split) for a cuppa pour-over style Burundi Ninga Hill. I do not think that I have ever had any Burundian Coffee before. This was kinda light on flavour and roast, but it was mellow and sweet anyhow. As a comparison, at Split they serve Mr. Espresso® (I did ask that question, but not which particular roast/blend, though).

https://www.saintfrankcoffee.com/products/burundi-ninga-hill?variant=39006020164


the Wild Parrots of San Francisco Interlude

While I was walking around before breakfast, I heard several of the noisy feather-brains (Telegraph Hill, which is just "next door", is home to a major pandemonium, of course) overhead. However, I did not see neither beak nor feather of any.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Grilled Little Gems & Sunny-Side Up Eggs ~ 6.5;
Saint Frank Coffee - Burundi Ninga Hill ~ 6.9;
Crispy Butterball Potatoes ~ 7.2;
the Wild Parrots of San Francisco ~ 8.5 (even sight unseen)

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1. Just what the h*ck?!

https://produceexpress.net/products/produce/item/lettuce-little-gem.html

2. Just what the h*ck, Part 2?!

https://www.specialtyproduce.com/produce/German_Butterball_Potatoes_9175.php

LaLe

No actual Nederlandse kindjes were harmed during the writing of this 'blog-thing.

https://www.lalesf.com/


Place: LaLe

Location:  731 Irving Street 
(between 8th and 9th Avenues)

Hours: "Brunch" is served at 9:00am during the week and at 8:00am on Saturday and Sunday

Meal: Dutch Baby Pancake ~ w/ caramelized apples & housemade (restaurant-made, whatever) whipped cream; a side order of homefries; and a cuppa (and one refilla; I drank a whole cuppa while waiting the 15-20 minutes for the pancake to be baked; they warn you ahead of time that it can take a while to prepare this dish) Sightglass Coffee (I forgot to ask which roast/blend they serve, though)

https://sightglasscoffee.com/

(There were not meant to be any EweToobular juxtaselections with the above two songs/videos. 
These two songs were played [back-to-back] on the house [restaurant, whatever] stereo while I was eating my meal. However, I bet that Sir George Ivan and those the Four Tops fellows would all enjoy a good Dutch Baby Pancake. I mean, who wouldn't?)


As I have been double-heading all of my Breakfastary Starting Rotation for visits this month, it was back to LaLe (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, October 26th, 2019... so, basically, yesterday) once again this morning.

Even before I had left my apartment this morning, I had already known exactly what I was going to order for breakfast ("Brunch", whatever). However, I really do need to try their new(-ish?) frittatas that are now offered. I think earlier this year was when I first saw the new items on their printed menu (their web-site does not even show these yet). There are three different frittatas (served with salad and fruit; where I would probably request a substitution of their very good homefries), thusly:

Paris ~ leeks, bacon (sorry, Glen, but you would have to be nixed), peas, goat cheese;

Seattle ~ asparagus, peppers, chicken-apple sausage (which would have to go the way of poor Glen above), Cheddar (this would most likely be my first choice of frittata);

and 

Milan (v) ~ spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, Cheddar.

See? No tulips in the vase on my table again this morning. Just some (if not a bit on the wilting side) roses and such. There were various colours of roses 
on all of the other tables, too.

This was so good! This dish is probably my second favourite breakfast ("Brunch", whatever) meal that they offer. Dutch Baby Pancakes are only offered during weekend "Brunch", though. It can also be ordered with bacon or strawberries; I just prefer the caramelized apples version. I am not sure exactly what kind of flower petals (they were quite possibly tulip petals, but never having eaten a tulip before, I could not tell you for certain) were used as a garnish on top of the whipped cream. I hope they were edible... 'cause I done edibled them both. I bet these pancakes would be extremely good with fresh rosemary sprigs on top of the whipped cream, too.

For condimentary supplementation, LaLe had... same as yesterday. I used some of my own H*ll's Kitchen® Chipotle Chocolate Hot Sauce (Thanks, Mom!) all over the side order of potatoes... and even a skosh on a small part of the pancake. ("No, you did 'nt, Brian!" Do not judge my culinary quirks!) I also used some grinds of The Spice & Tea Exchange® Pirate's Bite Spice Blend (Thanks, Cindy!) on the homefries. (Relax. I did not sprinkle any on top of the pancake, because that would just be silly.)


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Dutch Baby Pancake ~ 7.5;
Sightglass Coffee ~ 7.2

LaLe

The proverbial last straw that stirred 
the camel's drink

https://www.lalesf.com/


Place: LaLe

Location:  731 Irving Street 
(between 8th and 9th Avenues)

Hours: "Brunch" is served at 9:00am during the week and at 8:00am on Saturday and Sunday

Meal: Mumbai (Benediction/Benedict [their web-site still calls this dish "Benediction"; however, their printed menu states "Benedict"]) ~ beet-mushroom-lentil patty, avocado, tomato, housemade (well, restaurant-made) English muffin topped with poached eggs, Hollandaise sauce, served with potatoes; and to drink with the meal a large glassa homemade (again, restaurant-made) Strawberry/Lemonade (served nouveau Callie-forn-ee-ya-style sans straw)

(I had thought about linking a song by Camel, but I am not much of a Prog-Rock fan. So just enjoy this song in double-four-time instead... Creole... Creole... )


Because I could not make it to either Houstown or Washingtoon to catch any live games of the World Series, I figured a Turkish-Mediterranean restaurant from my Breakfastary Starting Rotation would have to do, so I went back to LaLe (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, May 25th, 2019) this morning. ("But, Brian, what do Turkey or even tulips[1] have anything to do with Baseball?" Don't tell me that you have never heard of the "Sultan Süleyman of Swat"?)

Since my last visit, I noticed that their front outside sign above the entrance-way is back. I have no idea where it went to. It looks to be the same one as the previous visit before last.

I thought this kinda strange. Somewhy[2], there were no tulips in any of the vases on the tables, just roses[3] (of varying colours) and other kinda flowery-stuff.

(Ignore the fuzzy quality of the above photo. Trust me, the quality of the food had no bokeh to it whatsoever.)


This is one of my favourite dishes that they have to offer for breakfast ("Brunch", whatever). It was one of the reasons that I went back a second time after my initial visit there and subsequently added them to my Breakfastary Starting Rotation a few years back. I really enjoy this twist on your plain ol' Eggs Benedict. (However, I am not exactly sure if beets[4] are normally big in Indian cuisine. I suppose that this dish could just as easily alternatively have been called "Warszawa" or "Helsinki". And I am pretty sure that there were no avocados nor tomatoes historically in India until that Cristoforo Colombo guy brought them over there on one of his trips.)  I am happy to see that they also offer this beet-lentil patty on their lunch and dinner menu.

For condimentary supplementation, LaLe has both Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce  (Original Red Sauce) and Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce. 
I went lightly with some of my own Chelsea Fire 
Wicked. Hot. Sauce.® (Thanks, Sha'!) on top of both poached eggs and a lot more heavy-handedly with some H*ll's Kitchen® Smokey Bourbon Hot Sauce (Thanks, Mom!) all over the homefries. Plus, I grinded-out several grinds of The Spice & Tea Exchange® 
Italian Street Fair Spice Blend (Thanks, Cindy!) all over everything.


Crafty Coffee Confabulation Interlude

As has been my tradition after dining ("Brunch"-ing, whatever) at LaLe, I walked around the corner for a mighty decent cuppa pour-over/drip-style at Snowbird Coffee. For today's roast/blend, I chose Zatara once again.

https://snowbirdcoffee.com/


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Mumbai (Benediction/Benedict) ~ 7.4;
Snowbird Coffee Zatara ~ 7.2

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1. Stupid, useless cunning linguist pointer of the day, 
bir numara/नंबर एक:

As I have mentioned before, the name of this restaurant comes from the Turkish word for "tulip", "lâle" (pronounced "LA-lay"). The word for "tulip" in Hindi is "ट्यूलिप" ([I kid you not] simply pronounced "tulip").

2. "Wait... a... minute, Brian! There is no such word as 'somewhy'! You can not just insert any old madeuppery word into your silly li'l 'blog-thing whenever you d*mn please!"

Well, there are already "somewhat", "somewhere", "somehow", "sometime", "sommelier", sometc. So I figured I could add "somewhy" into the equation, anywho.

3. Stupid, useless cunning linguist pointer of the day, 
iki numara/नंबर दो:

The word for "rose" in Turkish is "gül" (pronounced "gool") and in Hindi it is "गुलाब" (pronounced "goolab"; which is very similar to the Turkish word).

4. Stupid, useless cunning linguist pointer of the day, 
üç numara/तीन नंबर:

The word for "beets" in Turkish is "pancar" (pronounced "panjar") and in Hindi it is "बीट" (pronounced just like it looks!).

Bákér Stréét Bístró

(I am titling this one: "A Selfie of the 'Artist' as a very [silly] Old Man")

http://www.bakerstreetbistro.com/


Place: Baker Street Bistro

Location: 2953 Baker Street 
(Between Lombard and Greenwich Streets)

Hours: open for "le Brunch" Saturday & Sunday at 9:00am

Meal: Pain Perdu A "Brunch" favorite! (one of Brian's favourites!, too) ~ two slices of cinnamon French Toast, fresh fruit, strawberry coulis & crème fraîche; 
a side order of home fries; and a cuppa (and one refilla) the house (well, Bistro) Coffee to drink

(What is/are today's EweToobular juxtaselections? Simplement! Monsieur Noel Yang likes him some lost-and-found bread, too. I do not really know how that Nena-lady feels about any verd*mmt französischer Toast, though.)


As a Double-Header (or Double-Play... take your Baseball-ese pick), je suis retourné à Baker Street Bistro (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, October 12th, 2019... that would be yesterday) again this morning.

I actually poulette-d-out and sat inside for a change this morning. The weather had noticeably dropped and it must have been about ten degrees colder than it was just yesterday morn.

Do I really need to extol the greatness and tastitude of this absolutely sublime meal again?! I will just leave it at this: it is still my favourite breakfast in San Francisco.

I can not be sure, but I think their spice/herb mix on the homefries includes fennel seeds in it. I asked Chantal for corroboration, but she did not know for sure herself. I will just say that it does include fennel seeds and that they were a very surprisingly nice flavour-addition to some already great potatoes.

As has been my (silly li'l) wont whenever ordering Coffee there, I added the (le garniture) sprig of mint from the pile o' fruits into the cuppa. Kinda like "Café à le Turc".

Fruits d'aujourd'hui: framboises; mûres; myrtilles; pastèque; cantaloup; ananas; pomme; et orange.

(same as yesterday) For condimentary supplementation, Baker Street Bistro has only Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce (Original Red Sauce) on the tables. I used a goodly amount of my own Old St. Augustine Datil Pepper Sauce (Thanks, Greg & Cindy!) on the potatoes and The Spice & Tea Exchange® Earthly Delight Spice Blend (Thanks, Cindy!) judiciously grinded all over the potatoes, too. Chantal (upon seeing my two bottles of hot sauces and my spice grinder): "I see you have brought your own 'instruments' again... ".  I like that sentiment: "Instruments of Mass Spice-struction!"


the Wild Parrots of San Francisco Interlude

This morning, I had parked across the street from the tall Eucalyptus trees next to the Lombard Street Gate of the Presidio. However, I was completely shut-out this time and did not see remiges nor rectrices of the normally squawking perroquets.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Pain Perdu ~ 8.2;
the Wild Parrots of San Francisco ~ 8.5 (well, when present)

Bâkêr Strêêt Bîstrô

¿El proverbial último popote...?[1]

http://www.bakerstreetbistro.com/


Place: Baker Street Bistro

Location: 2953 Baker Street 
(Between Lombard and Greenwich Streets)

Hours: open for "le Brunch" Saturday & Sunday at 9:00am (they call their early morning meal "Brunch"; however, they open up early enough for my simple breakfastary tastes... besides... let us never forget... 
le Pain Perdu le plus exceptionnel!)

Meal: Oeufs Baker Street Bistro Dave's favorite (one of Brian's favourites, too) ~ ratatouille, poached eggs, English muffin, tomato sauce, served with home fries & mixed greens (aka la comida para conejos); and a large glassa jugo de naranja (served con un popote de papel])

(There really is/are no EweToobular juxtaselections with these two songs/videos. The radio station I was listening to on my way home this morning just happened to be playing another song off Green Day's american idi*t album.

[just try to] Convince me otherwise: Green Day's american idi*t album is definitively one of the Best [if not The Best] Rock-and/or-Roll albums of the first decade of this here 21st Century. 

Of course, there is no question that it is Green Day's transcendent album to date. Even my foolish young-pup nephew [who shall remain named Cameron] has finally come around to seeing that I am 100% correct in this declaration. [Give the kid a break, he also took over ten years to finally agree with me that Lady Ella is The Best Female Voice in 'merica in the 20th Century... (Evah?)]

Man, that Giovanni Ribisi guy can really write some great music!)


While working my way through another Fall Classic warm-up of my Breakfastary Starting Rotation, I headed back to Baker Street Bistro (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, May 11th, 2019) this morning.

Once again, I sat outside in their spacious sidewalk-patio café. It was still a bit cool this morning, but I had on both a sweatshirt and an outer sweatshirt/jacket-thing, so I was more than comfortable. As no other idi*ts decided to "brave" the autumnal chill, I had the seating area entirely to myself, too.

This is always such a great breakfast (specifically Eggs Benedict-oriented)! I do not know why any other local restaurant establishments have not stolen this idea yet (of course, I would think that they would need to change the name of the dish; that would be such a dead give-away)... kinda like the most awe-some Zucchini Cakes idea at Dottie's True blue café. Needless to say, I liked my breakfast ("le Brunch", whatever) this morning a lot.

For condimentary supplementation, Baker Street Bistro has only Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce 
(Original Red Sauce) on the tables. I used some of my own Chili in Hawaii Habanero Garlic Hot Sauce (Thanks, Cindy & Greg!) on the potatoes and several grinds of The Spice & Tea Exchange® Pirate's Bite Spice Blend (Thanks, Cindy!) on top of everything 
(even on a few slices of the French bread in the basket...  à la Glen Bacon's [yes, that Scale Rating-guy] grandfather).


Crafty Coffee Confabulation Interlude

(Much earlier) before heading out for breakfast ("le Brunch", whatever) this morning, I made myself a cuppa TLC Coffee Roasters - Bali Blue Moon (Thanks, Greg & Cindy!). This was a brand-new (well, it has been in my freezer for the past few months, and I am just getting around to finally trying it out) Coffee for me. This was another very nice output from a small roastery outta the Island of Rhodes. These two production/roasting notes really did prove true in its flavour factor: "Bali Coffee trees are planted alongside oranges and tangerines, and the beans seem to pick up a little extra sweetness and a touch more acidity than most Indonesian varietals. The fact that the beans are dried with the fruit attached to the seed further enhances the complexity and wild fruitiness of this exquisite Coffee."

https://www.tlccoffeeroasters.com/product-page/bali-blue


the Wild Parrots of San Francisco Interlude

After breakfast, I walked over to one of the larger known roosting areas of the Wild Parrots of San Francisco (the tall Eucalyptus trees next to the Lombard Street Gate of the Presidio) to see if I could catch any of my squawky feather-brained friends in the area. However, I saw just un solo papagayo flying overhead of the trees in the small dog-park in that area of the Presidio. For what it is worth, I also saw one extra-noisy Steller's Jay[2] flying around there, too.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Oeufs Baker Street Bistro ~ 7.4;
TLC Coffee Roasters - Bali Blue Moon ~ 7.2;
Steller's Jays ~ 8.0;
the Wild Parrots of San Francisco ~ 8.5

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1. Stupid, useless cunning linguist pointer of the day:

As soon as I sat down, the friendly Mexican-guy waiter/bus boy-type (whose name I really should learn one of these days; he has worked there now for several years and always greets me warmly the few times a year that I do darken their doorstep... sidewalk-patio café, whatever.... ) asked me if I wanted "un Café" (en español, gracias!). I told him that I just wanted a glassa "jugo de naranja" (one of the few simple phrases that I can remember en español, anyway). He then introduced me to a brand-new español-ese word: 
"(el) popote" ("(the) straw"; somewhat pronounced 
"po-PO-tay"). I also made sure to ask him if "popote" was "un/el" or "una/la" in gender-agreement.

I will have to try and remember this one on future visits there (or at local taquerias even).

2. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Stellers_Jay/id

Ella's American Kitchen

"The one with the Avocado Omelet."

https://www.ellassanfrancisco.com/


Place: Ella's American Kitchen

Location: 500 Presidio Avenue 
(on the corner of California Street)

Hours: open for "Brunch" Saturday & Sunday at 7:00am (supposably)

Meal: Avocado Omelet ~ avocado, Cheddar cheese, pico de gallo, country potatoes, toast (today, I went with sourdough-rye for a change); and 
a glassa Ginger Orange Juice Punch to drink

(Lady Ella and ol' Satchel-mouth hisself?! What could be better on a pastoral autumnal Sunday morn?)


So, I went back to Ella's American Kitchen (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, September 28th, 2019 ~ basically, yesterday) for breakfast (well, "Brunch", whatever) again this morning.

While avocado and Cheddar is a decent enough combination, I think that Monterey Jack[1] or queso fresco woulda been a mucho bettero estilo mexicano match-up. Thankfully, unlike yesterday's omelette, this one was more of a "right propa" omelette, Mr. Wensleydale, with the avocado (thickly) sliced up inside; plus, it had lots and lots of avocado in it ~ there musta been an entire avocado berry in it.

Same as yesterday... as for any condimentary supplementation, Ella's American Kitchen has both Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce (Original Red Sauce) and Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce on the tables. This morning, I used some of my own 
H*ll's Kitchen Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce (Thanks, Mom!) on top of the omelette (I only used about seven to eight drops of this, but even that ended up being about four to five drops too many... oooops!) and some Dat'l Do-it® Scorching Habanero Hot Sauce (Also, thanks, Mom!) on the potatoes (now this hot sauce was not nearly as hot as the first one and I did go a little [well, a lot] heavier-handed with it). Additionally, all over both the omelette and potatoes I used several grinds from my The Spice & Tea Exchange®
Italian Street Fair Spice Blend (Thanks, Cindy!).

Sadly, all good things must come to an end. After about twenty years of being in my Breakfastary Starting Rotation, I think that this will probably be my last visit to Ella's American Kitchen as a member of that elite group. (I mean, even that Tim Bradley guy has to retire someday from those New Englander Patriotic Guys.) Since they changed ownership (about two years ago now?), the menu has just become much less eclectic for my tastes (and I like tasting eclecticity). Plus, they no longer do all their own baking of breads and pastries; this is a big MINUS in my book (or even in my 'blog-thing). I am sure that I will still get back there at least once a year, though. Come next year, I will probably be replacing it with another restaurant (and I am thinking that I am probably gonna call-up Home Plate).


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Avocado Omelet ~ 6.6

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1. https://www.cheese.com/monterey-jack/

As for that Cheddar stuff: 
"Well, I'm afraid we don't get much call for it around these parts."