I've seen very little about favorite restaurants for breakfast. Breakfast is my favorite guilty pleasure (calories and cholestorol don't count at btreakfast). How about places that serve a great or unusual breakfast. I've always been a fan of the Cracker Barrell, but now avoid it due to their treatment of gay employees. There's a terrific restaurant in ST Petersburg called Skyway Jacks; who else serves an "Old Navy" breakfast of baked beans and smoked sausage (huge links - not breakfast links)? Pamela's in Pittsburgh has the best pancakes and home fries I've ever eaten. Anyone else?
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Bill G. wrote: > > I've seen very little about favorite restaurants for breakfast. Breakfast > is my favorite guilty pleasure (calories and cholestorol don't count at > btreakfast). How about places that serve a great or unusual breakfast. > I've always been a fan of the Cracker Barrell, but now avoid it due to > their treatment of gay employees. There's a terrific restaurant in ST > Petersburg called Skyway Jacks; who else serves an "Old Navy" breakfast of > baked beans and smoked sausage (huge links - not breakfast links)? > Pamela's in Pittsburgh has the best pancakes and home fries I've ever > eaten. > > Anyone else? The best breakfast that I have ever had is in Winooski, Vermont at a place called "Sneakers"
The Line House in Kittery, Me. Their "Lay it on the Line" has pancakes,sausage bacon,homefries & eggs. Lots of great specials, the biggest breakfast menu I've seen in the area.
Bill G. wrote: > > I've seen very little about favorite restaurants for breakfast. Breakfast > is my favorite guilty pleasure (calories and cholestorol don't count at > btreakfast). How about places that serve a great or unusual breakfast. > > Anyone else? In California's Napa Valley wine country is a diner that serves an excellent breakfast and all-American food during the day, then transforms to Mexican food at night. One reviewer described the place as having "food with intgrity and humor." My favorite breakfast is the potato pancakes with house-made sausage. IMO it's very good. But other voice speak far louder. It has received awards from COOK's and GOURMET MAGAZINE. "Best Breakfast in the United States" was the food review by the Sunday LONDON TIMES. If you're in the Napa Valley, check it out. Dress is casual. Price is $. The Diner 6476 Washington Street Yountville, CA 94599 707-944-2626 -david
Bill G. wrote: > >I've seen very little about favorite restaurants for breakfast. Breakfast >is my favorite guilty pleasure (calories and cholestorol don't count at >btreakfast). How about places that serve a great or unusual breakfast. My favorite meal of the day. Here in Philadelphia: The Down Home Diner at Reading Terminal Market - Sausage, Biscuits and Richman's Gravy - Country Ham, Biscuits and Red Eye Gravy - Pancakes with their own smoked salmon - Poached eggs with Mr. Moyer's scrapple - Corned beef hash with two eyes open. Carman's Country Kitchen- 11th & Wharton - Scambled eggs with cracked conch - Ever changing weekend brunchs. One of my favorites was french toast topped with a mango/jalapeno sauce. - An omelet of grilled ham tips and gorgonzola cheese. The Four Seasons Hotel - 18th and the Parkway - Sunday Breakfast (not brunch) watching the chefs assemble their fancy Sunday brunch. Great kippered herring. Elsewhere Used to be a place called Dioges (or something like that in San Francisco. Incredible omelets and french toast. Don't know if they're still around. Brennans in New Orleans. Sure it's too expensive, but it is Brennan's in New Orleans. Got them to make me Lobster Benedict at the Maine Diner on Rte. 1 in Wells. Betty's Hungry House Cafe in Seneca, SC serves the best breakfast biscuits, with or without country ham, anywhere. The Dixie Diner in Alpharetta Georgia, just because it's like every truck stop should be. Skinheads in Paducah, KY where you can smell the country ham grilling clear across the parking lot. A hotel in Bergen Norway that served a fish buffet that included eight varieties of herring. Huevos Rancheros at Las Manitas in Cuernavaca Mexico. And for ambience, you can't beat the terrace of the Oriental Hotel in Bankok, overlooking the river.
> Bill G. wrote: > > > > I've seen very little about favorite restaurants for breakfast. Breakfast > > is my favorite guilty pleasure (calories and cholestorol don't count at > > btreakfast). Man, get me started!! I LOVE breakfast. Here in Seattle: Coastal Kitchen - fabulous traditional breakfasts, plus "regional" specials, like for a few weeks it will be mediterranean influenced, then southern, then... Cool Hand Luke's: Best cinnamon rolls in town, hands down. great trad breakfasts too. Palisades: wonderful buffet brunch. my fave is the sourdough banana-macadamia nut pancakes with apricot butter & real maple syrup ;-) they cook 'em for ya right there at the buffet Illiterati: the best hollandaise in town, hands down! my fave: eggs florentine, spinich gently sauteed with garlic on an english muffin with poached eggs and lemon hollendaise. ;-) Cafe Campagne: French bistro in the public market. eggs with savory herbs, omelets to die for, truly french flavors, very unique, I love this place. everything is fresh, fresh, fresh.
Joanna C. wrote: > > Bill G. wrote: > > > > I've seen very little about favorite restaurants for breakfast. Breakfast > > is my favorite guilty pleasure (calories and cholestorol don't count at > > btreakfast). > > In NYC there are two "Royal Canadian Pancake House"es. Pancaked the > size of manhole covers, multi-egg omelettes, an amusing attitude, and an > all around world class breakfast experience. Love it or hate it, (and > I'm not sure which I do), it certainly should be at the top of an > unusual breakfast list. > > P.S. -- I thought it was my secret that breakfast calories do not count! The portions at RCMP are truly mindboggling. An order of French toast gets you a WHOLE LOAF. The quantity of wasted food must be mountainous. If you go there, DO NOT order any side dishes. You could not possibly need anything other than your pancakes, etc., and the side dishes will really jack up your tab. If in Baltimore on the weekend, try brunch at the Morning Edition on Patterson Park Ave. The place is straight out of the '60s, and the service is amusingly amateurish but the food is fantastic, the coffee is great, and you are not rushed. Reservations required for Sunday for sure, and probably for Saturday too. Bob Wells
David S. wrote: >In California's Napa Valley wine country is a diner that serves an >excellent breakfast and all-American food during the day, then >transforms to Mexican food at night. One reviewer described the place as >having "food with intgrity and humor." > >My favorite breakfast is the potato pancakes with house-made sausage. > >IMO it's very good. But other voice speak far louder. It has received >awards from COOK's and GOURMET MAGAZINE. "Best Breakfast in the United >States" was the food review by the Sunday LONDON TIMES. > >If you're in the Napa Valley, check it out. Dress is casual. Price is $. > >The Diner >6476 Washington Street >Yountville, CA 94599 >707-944-2626 > >-david An even wilder recommendation for this, my favorite breakfast place as well, came from the Wine Spectator about 7 or 8 years ago. They rated the Diner as one of the Top 15 restaurants in the Valley. The description of their wine list at the time (this was a wine mag, after all): "NONE". Gotta love it. I've taken friends and relatives from many states and countries, and we get universal thumbs ups! --------------------- Scott Saftler Walnut Creek, CA [email removed]
In deference to what everyone has said so far, I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned The Hideaway Cafe, in Solana Beach, CA - that funky little shack one block from the ocean, where the food is delicious, portions enormous, and the cinnamon buns...oh, boy!