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!).

LaLe

No actual racists or chickens were harmed during the writing of today's 'blog-entry...
(however, there may be some bigoted fowl-language included)[1]

http://www.lalesf.com/


Place: LaLe

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

Hours: breakfast and/or "Brunch" are served daily at 8:00am

Meal: Toronto (Benediction) ~ ham (where I, of course, went sans le m*udit jambon, ya hoser!), grilled tomato, spinach, housemade (well, restaurant-made) English muffin topped with poached eggs, Hollandaise sauce, served with potatoes; and, to drink, a glassa Homemade (again, restaurant-made) Strawberry Lemonade

(Yeah, neither one of these EweToobular videos really has anything to do with Toronto[2], or Turkey, or tulips [or racist chickens, even]; they just happened to be playing both of these songs [and back-to-back, too] on the house-stereo [restaurant-stereo, whatever] this morning.)


In rounding out (diamonding off?) the late springtime workout of my Breakfastary Starting Rotation, I once again went back to LaLe (see previous 'blog-entry from Sunday, January 20th, 2019) for breakfast this morning.

One thing that I noticed right away before entering the restaurant this morning was "Wha' happen'd to their sign?!". They had just put up a newer(-ish) sign the last time that I ate there and, as can be seen in the above photo (or, actually can not be seen), it is now missing. I meant to ask one of the workers while I was there what happened to it, but I completely forgot while I was busy enjoying my meal. I am sure that it will reappear on my next visit (and, by which time, I will have completely forgotten that it was missing right now).

After several many visits to this restaurant, there are not several many items left on their menu that I have not already had, but a few last items that I might want to try are: 

Fennel Cabbage Salad ~ with green and purple cabbage, fresh fennel, apples, arugula (if possible, I would see if they might be able to add a poached egg atop the pile o' rabbit-food to standardise it breakfastarily)

or

I just happened to notice this morning (and it is only showing on their printed menu and not their online menu for some reason) that they are now offering four or five different Frittatas; I will probably check one of those out on my next visit (and try to remember to take a photo of the list on their menu, too).

Additionally, I could have also re-went with either Dutch Baby Pancake (however, as they say in Latin, empty cavities: these can take 20-25 minutes to prepare, seriously; this dish is really worth re-ordering; and I had the time to kill, but felt like "savoury" over "sweet" this morning) or Creamy Breakfast Polenta. Both of these were written on the weekend specials chalkboard outside by the front door. 

My main reason for going with the "Toronto" locale (but probably not lo-cal) Benediction this morning was that earlier in the week Your 2018 World Championship Boston RED SOX just finished a successful (if not rather dubious) Four-Game Series in the Northern Exposure town of the same name. (If only they offered a Benediction named "Hous-town".)

So, this was basically your standard "Eggs Florentine" just with the addition of grilled tomatoes. However, a few of the standouts here were that they used sautéed fresh baby spinach and their own housemade (restaurant-made, whatever) English muffin, which really makes a World of difference (Sorry, Mr. Thomas, these are just much better'n your faux-crumpets things.).

For condimentary supplementation, LaLe had both Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce (Original Red Sauce) and Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce. Once more, I just used some of my own Old St. Augustine Snake Bite Datil Pepper Sauce (Thanks, Greg & Cindy!) on the potatoes and some Tijuana Flats Tex-Mex Smack My *ss and Call Me Santa (Thanks, Rick!) on top of both eggs (Hollandaise sauce is generally okay, but it can always use a notch or two kicked up its *ss). Plus (and this is a very note-worthy "plus"), they offer two homemade (... whatever-made... ) jams/jellies (usually an orange marmalade and a strawberry jam) for use on all the tables. Unfortunately for me, there was nothing on which to use them this morning. So, for good (future) measure, I bought one jarra strawberry jam to take-with (I had bought a jarra orange marmalade during my previous visit and it is just about used-up, anyway).


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Toronto (Benediction) ~ 6.4;
Strawberry Lemonade ~ 6.8;
(Your 2018 World Championship) Boston RED SOX ~ 139-24 
(well, that is my prediction for the 2019 Season and I am stickin' with it... until it changes again)

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1. There might be one defacedbook friend that gets that opening joke-statement.

2. Well, Feist is from Canadialand, but she is from a-whole-nuther Province up there.

LaLe

A morning haiku:
Oh, breakfastary repast!
ありがとう, Doc.

http://www.lalesf.com/


Place: LaLe[1]

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

Hours: breakfast and/or "Brunch" are served daily at 8:00am

Meal: Cairo (Scramble) ~ lamb (which I made sure to ستة وثمانون), peppers, tomatoes, onions, Feta cheese, with a side ramekin of Tzatziki (well, more like Cacik as this is a Turkish joint), served with home style potatoes and housemade (well, restaurant-made) English muffin; and a glassa Mint Lemonade to drink


Roses can be red.
Tulips can also be red.
Haikus do not rhyme.


Finishing off the early-2019 workout of my Breakfastary Starting Rotation, I returned to LaLe 
(see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, September 15th, 2018).

Even after several visits to this restaurant, there are still some good remaining ideas to check out:

Ciudad de México (Scramble) ~ chorizo (which would be ochenta-y-seis-ed), green onions, mushrooms, guacamole, sour cream, cheese;

Toronto (Benediction) ~ ham (No thanks, ya hoser!), grilled tomato, spinach;

or

Fennel Cabbage Salad ~ green and purple cabbage, fresh fennel, apples, arugula (where I would probably have them add a poached egg or two on top of the pile of rabbit-food to make it a bit more breakfastarily-sound).

Plus, there is always the possibility of reordering their most-excellent Dutch Baby Pancake. 

I had also given a brief thought to reordering Boston (Benediction) ~ bacon (nah, it ain't wicked pissah), guacamole, arugula, tomatoes ~ as a superstitious aid to help the New England Patriots win the AFC Championship Game in Kansas City this afternoon. But I had ordered that same dish exactly a year ago and figured (hopefully) that the Patriots do not need my fake mojo-ocity (besides, I am wearing a pair of Patriots socks and my old-school Patriots [the one with the Minuteman-guy in a three-point stance] baseball cap).

I was very happy to see that this was made with πολύ Φέτα, as this was the main reason I ordered it today. Otherwise, it woulda just been a peppers, tomatoes, and onions scramble.

One thing that I learned very early on when living in Greece, Τζατζίκι (or Cacik even) and potatoes are a great pair! Because of which, I did not dump the ramekin on top of the scramble mess (like they were expecting me to do), I dumped it all over the homefries instead (Ha! Take that, LaLe!). This was not a mistake in any way. 

I did not really bother to ask what LaLe might still have to offer in the way of condimentary supplements (in the past they just had Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce). I used some of my own H*ll's Kitchen® 
Sriracha Chili Hot Sauce (Thanks, Mom!) on the scramble. I did make sure to use some of their own very good homemade (restaurant-made, whatever) marmalade and strawberry jam/preserves ~ one teaspoon of each ~ on the two different halves of the English muffin. They also now have jars of both of these for sale. This turned out to be very à propos as I was planning on buying some jam/jelly/preserves after breakfast while grocery shopping on my way home, anyway. I made sure to take advantage of this and bought one of their marmalade jars for home-use, Lady. 


Awaken my morn,
Nubian liquid goddess.
Java... Joe... Coffee!

(not really such a) Strange Coffee Interlude

After breakfast, I would normally grab a cuppa around the corner at Snowbird Coffee to enjoy whilst galumphing around San Francisco Botanical Garden. However, it was (still) raining (light as it may have been) and I did not really relish (nor ketchup) being wet and uncomfortable all morning. Plus, more importantly, I have wayyyy too much of my own Coffee still to use up at home. Sooo... when I got home and was keyboarding-up today's 'blog-entry thing, I made myself a cuppa (single pour-over style) Bettys Kenyan Karatina (Thanks, Cindy & Greg!).

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


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Cairo (Scramble) ~ 6.8;
homemade (restaurant-made) marmalade and strawberry jam ~ 7.2;
Bettys Kenyan Karatina ~ 7.4

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1. Stupid, useless cunning linguist/semi-cultural and historical pointer (refresher):

Tulips are called "lâle" in Turkish (from Persian: "lale" "لاله"). 

When written in Arabic letters, "lale" has the same letters as "Allah", which is why the flower became an Islamic holy symbol*. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire.

*(Much the same way the letters in "Jesus Christ" are an anagram for the Greek words "gefilte fish" and the reason you see so many "Jesus-fish" on people's bumpers.)

LaLe

http://www.lalesf.com


Place: LaLe

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

Hours: breakfast and/or "Brunch" are served daily at 8:00am

Meal: Napa (Scramble) ~ goat cheese, mushrooms, bacon (which I nixed, Santa), bell peppers, served with home style potatoes and housemade (well, LaLe-made) English muffin; to drink with the meal, a glassa Homemade (again, LaLe-made) Strawberry Lemonade; and, afterward (to enjoy whilst saunterin' around San Francisco Botanical Garden), a mighty fine cuppa Snowbird Coffee - Zatara (à la méthode pour-over)

http://snowbirdcoffee.com/

(There is/are no EweToobular juxtaselections here [of which I am aware]; I was just thinking about this song while wandering around San Francisco Botanical Garden. [Who knew Dan Fogelberg was a Peter Pan fan?])


Next up on the September work-out of my Breakfastary Starting Rotation: LaLe (see last 'blog-entry from Sunday, April 22nd, 2018). 

Even after several visits to this new-ish restaurant, there are still a few other good ideas yet for me to try:

Cairo (Scramble) ~ lamb (naaaaaa!), peppers, tomatoes, onions, Feta cheese (this will probably be my choice on my next visit);

Ciudad de México (Scramble) ~ chorizo (which would be ochenta-y-seis-ed), green onions, mushrooms, guacamole, sour cream, cheese;

Toronto (Benediction) ~ ham (No thanks, ya hoser!), grilled tomato, spinach;

or

Fennel Cabbage Salad ~ green and purple cabbage, fresh fennel, apples, arugula (where I would probably have them add a poached egg or two on top of the pile of rabbit-food to make it a bit more breakfastarily-sound).

This was a decent-enough scramble-mess, but just not quite as great as some of the other dishes that I have had at this restaurant already. It was made with both green and red bell peppers and the goat cheese made for a very nice creamy, melty addition.

LaLe offers for condimentary supplementation just Tapatío® Salsa Picante Hot Sauce. I used some of my own hot sauces, anyway; a little (wellll, a lot; ooops! I accidentally went a little heavy-handed with it because the d*rn thing poured-out too fast on me; luckily it did not "exceed the limit") Dat'l Do-it® Scorching Habanero Hot Sauce (Thanks, Mom!) on the scramble-mess and some Dragon Breath Garlic Hot Sauce (Thanks again, Mom!) on the potatoes, and a lotta grinds from my grains of paradise grinder all over both. (And especially) plus, LaLe offers their own very good, homemade (whatever) berry jam and orange marmalade, Lady; I made sure to use a heaping dollop of each on the two slices of English muffin.

(not really such a) Strange Coffee Interlude

As has been my current rubric for the past several visits to LaLe ~ either beforehand or afterfoot ~ I made sure to stop by Snowbird Coffee for a really good cuppa. 

(and a bit exciting) Strange San Francisco Botanical Garden[1] Interlude

[2]

If'n ya gots two hours or so to kill, this is a great place for a premeditated double-hora homicide. (Don't do the "crime", if you ain't got the time, though.) 

This morning, I had purposefully parked along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive directly across the street from the Main Gate of San Francisco Botanical Garden with the intention of galumphing throughout the gardens after breakfast while sipping away at my cuppa from Snowbird Coffee (the Coffee lasted about a half-hour only, though).

Go for the flora...

I saw (and touched and smelled) Lavender (Lavandula ~ at least two different species), Sage (Salvia ~ also, at least two different types), Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis ~ probably two-to-three different cultivars); and Thyme (Thymus vulgaris). (Sorry, I did not espy any Parsley [Petroselinum crispum], though, Mr. Simon and/or Mr. Garfinkle). I was smart enough not to touch (or attempt to smell) any of the cacti in the Succulent Garden (however, the prickly pears were almost ripe and tempting).

(This tiny little guy [or girl] came right down to me while I was in the Garden of Fragrance.)

("You lookin' at me?!")


... and stay for the (avi)fauna.

Now, I really hit the jackpot with all the variety of Boids this morning (mainly because there were many bushes in which to see two or more around the gardens). There were: Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus - one juvenile[?]); Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis ~ also, just one [another] juvenile[?]; that would be him/her in the photo directly above this paragraph); California Scrub Jays (Aphelocoma californica ~ I think I counted at least five different ones around the gardens); Robins (Turdus migratorius ~ way too many to count); Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans ~ just the one in the second photo above); Little Brown Birds (Volucres minus brunneis ~ again, way too many to count); Steller's Jays (Cyanocitta stelleri ~ at least four, but I heard many, many more; there was one pretending that he was a Red-tailed Hawk and another thinking that he was Mr. Drinky Crow); Canada Geese (Branta canadensis ~ several, as in a whole lotta several); Ducks (of the plain ol' Mallard variety - Anas platyrhynchos ~ just a few; the Geese have usurped a lot of the good pond spaces); Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana ~ just one female, I believe; she was way too fast for me to even think about getting her photo); and also some kinda waterbird, possibly a Kingfisher (Alcedinidae), which I came upon at the small pond/reservoir in the California Native Garden and startled him before I could even get an identifying shot of him.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Napa (Scramble) ~ 6.5;
homemade (whatever) berry jam and orange marmalade ~ 7.2;
Snowbird Coffee - Zatara ~ 7.4;
San Francisco Botanical Garden and all its great flora and (avi)fauna stuff ~ 8.0 (and the price is always right for local San Franciscans ~ at zero dollars, it just makes no sense not to check this place out[3])

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1. https://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/

2. This is such a cool story.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/spanish-monastery-stones

3. Okay, so I stole... er... borrowed that line from Billy Bradford, but I am completely giving him full credit here and also hoping to promote his charitable activities. This guy really has no sense of business, just a great sense of civic pride.

https://www.facebook.com/badbusinessmodelbikes/

Outerlands

Sure, and I still have never learned how to drive a stick...

http://outerlandssf.com/


Place: Outerlands

Location:  4001 Judah Street
(on the corner of 45th Avenue)

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

Meal: (the simply-enough named) quiche ~ celery root, niçois olive, ricotta salata (they like to print everything in the minuscule on their menu); a side of (again simply-enough named) potatoes ~ filipino adobo[1], aioli, scallion; and to drink with the meal, lemon ginger apple cider


Outerlands (see last 'blog entry from Sunday, March 10th, 2013) is not really that far from where I live, so I have no idea why it has been over five years since my last visit. It may have been that they did not use to open until 10:0am on the weekends (for "Brunch"). However, it was an easy and quick drive over there this morning.

Even with the new (well, it is "new" in the five years since I last ate there) expansion into the space next door (which used to be a little Chinese restaurant), they really did not add too many extra seats because they also extended their kitchen area into the middle of the restaurant ~ and, sadly, there is no more Winnie-the-Pooh hole (which was their office space, I believe) above the kitchen area.

I sat outside this morning ('cause I was the first idiot to arrive early enough this morning and was the first to put my name on the waiting list, and 'cause I could) in one of the tables along 45th Avenue (in front of the stupid, extra-long parklet [uggh!] there). There are three tables for two and two tables for four on the sidewalk. I had the space to myself for almost the entire time that I was eating breakfast ("Brunch", whatever).

There really are not an awful lot of items from which to choose on their "Brunch" menu (be you a dead, decaying animal flesh-eater or a stupid vegetarian). A few of the other possible ideas I saw for breakfast this morning were:

(another simply-enough named) chili ~ summer squash, pinto bean, tomato, scallion, goat yogurt, cornbread (if I had ordered this dish, I would probably have also ordered a sourdough peach fritter as a starter);

eggs-in-jail ~ bacon (which I would have had excised), aioli, spinach, garlic sunflower kernels;

or 

dutch pancake baked in a cast iron pan ~ sweet with strawberry and walnuts or savory with bacon, pickled onion, and parsley (house made ricotta can be added to either; this would have been a repeat of my first meal there).

This was a HUGE slice of quiche. It was extra fluffy and eggy; it had almost a soufflé quality to it. It came with a large side of some silly rabbit-greens (which mostly went uneaten to make sure that I had enough room for all the other good stuff).

I was told that the side of potatoes usually can be split between two people, but it did not prove to be that big of a side-dish and I was able to finish it all myself. As best as I can figure, the preparation for these potatoes was probably deep-fried and then roasted off. These were whole small(-ish) potatoes that had been smooshed (for lack of a better culinaristic term, Emeril) a bit and allowed for some of the deep-frying to penetrate into the potatoes for maximum crispiocity (which I have been assured by Bobby Flay is an actual culinary term). These were some truly excellent homefries.

The lemon ginger apple cider was also very good and really went well with the meal. It can be served either hot or iced; I went with it iced, which turned out to be the smart choice because mean Mr. Sun was beating down on me. It can also be ordered with a shot of Bourbon, Whiskey, or Gin in it; I just kept it virginal 'cause I still had to drive back home. Even so, it still looked like some kinda faux Bourbon breakfastary cocktail. 

I am not sure what Outerlands may or may not have had to offer in the way of any condimentary supplements; I did not ask nor need any. I used some more of my Hot Licks® Serrano Hot Sauce (Thanks, Brian!) on the potatoes and some Sunbelt Plantations Vidalia® Onion & Jalapeno Pepper Hot Sauce (Thanks, Greg & Cindy!) on the quiche.

(another not really so) Strange Coffee Interlude

Knowing that Outerlands did not open until 9:00am (which is an improvement over their old opening time of 10:00am) for "Brunch", I arrived in the neighborhood about forty-five minutes early with the specific intent of walking the four blocks over to Andytown Coffee Roasters on the corner of Lawton Street and 43rd Avenue for a decent cuppa. This location offers Wind & Sea blend as their only drip-style Coffee, and does not do any specific roasts/blends as pour-overs like they do at their other two locations in the Sunset. This was fine by me, as Wind & Sea is still a mighty fine cuppa (but it is just not their single origin Ethiopia Natural Banko Fuafuate, which was one of my favourite Coffees ~ not named Bettys Jamaica Blue Mountain ~ from 2017).

http://www.andytownsf.com/purchase/wind-and-sea-blend


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Andytown Coffee Roasters Wind & Sea ~  7.2;
quiche ~ 6.6;
potatoes ~ 7.2

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1. I was going to do a whole "stupid, useless cunning linguist/pseudo-culinaristic pointer of the day", but found this explanation already intact from our friendly friends at WikipediA:

Philippine adobo (from Spanish adobar: "marinade," "sauce" or "seasoning") is a popular dish and cooking process in Philippine cuisine that involves meat, seafood, or vegetables marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, and black peppercorns, which is browned in oil, and simmered in the marinade. It has sometimes been considered as the unofficial national dish in the Philippines.