Your favorite breakfast place

[Zeener Diode]

Let's share our favorite spot to break the night's fast!

Here's mine. Laurie's Homestead Breakfast House in Long Beach. (Google Maps places it at 4264 Pacific Way, if you wanna see it.) They have an eclectic menu featuring eggs any way you want ("The Windjammer Omelet" has peppers and cheese and homemade strawberry jam), plus other artery-clogging dishes ("Hillbilly Heap" "HangTown Fry" and "Ultimate Seafood Omelet"). They make a biscuits & gravy dish that features a single biscuit the size of a small loaf of bread, with sausage gravy so good you'll lick your plate clean. But the best of all is the "quick bread", made with cranberries and served with cranberry butter. (It's not on the menu--- you must request it, and hope they haven't run out!) If you find yourself in Seaview, WA, along the Long Beach peninsula, you gotta go there.

[Darmund]

As mentioned in the other thread, the Cup & Saucer Cafe. The one in North Portland is just a block and a half away. The only complaint I have is that the biscuits & gravy use vegetarian "sausage." But that's a small complaint for me because I always get eggs anyway. The boy likes B&G though.

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by Darmund

As mentioned in the other thread, the Cup & Saucer Cafe. The one in North Portland is just a block and a half away. The only complaint I have is that the biscuits & gravy use vegetarian "sausage." But that's a small complaint for me because I always get eggs anyway. The boy likes B&G though.

You don't by chance live on the same street as the mayor...?

[3acres]

The lodges at a couple of Missouri state parks: Bennett Spring and Sam A. Baker. We'd rent a little cabin, but go over to the lodge for breakfast and chow down. Corned beef hash, biscuits and gravy*, hash browns, eggs, sausage, ham, bacon, flapjacks... And the coffee just kept a-coming. Plus the service was always efficient and friendly and the view out the windows at Sam Baker was fantastic. Haven't been there for several years, as I don't have a social life these days, but I have fond memories.

*An order of biscuits and gravy for one was a platter heaped with biscuits covered with a towel to keep 'em warm and an entire boatful of gravy!

[Darmund]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

You don't by chance live on the same street as the mayor...?

No, but pretty close to it.

[Ginger]

Originally Posted by Darmund

As mentioned in the other thread, the Cup & Saucer Cafe. The one in North Portland is just a block and a half away. The only complaint I have is that the biscuits & gravy use vegetarian "sausage." But that's a small complaint for me because I always get eggs anyway. The boy likes B&G though.

Ahh.. that's a blast from the past. I remember going to the SE Hawthorne site though.

I miss Scooters. It was a momandpop outfit on US101 between Portland and Seaside, Oregon. It shut it's doors a few years ago because of owner/tenant issues. The building was rundown,.. (again, owner/tenant issues) but the food was homemade and had the BEST breakfast food EVER. I covet my Scooters coffee mug still. <3

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by Ginger

Ahh.. that's a blast from the past. I remember going to the SE Hawthorne site though.

I miss Scooters. It was a momandpop outfit on US101 between Portland and Seaside, Oregon. It shut it's doors a few years ago because of owner/tenant issues. The building was rundown,.. (again, owner/tenant issues) but the food was homemade and had the BEST breakfast food EVER. I covet my Scooters coffee mug still. <3

I don't recall this place, and we drove that way to Long Beach.

I remember Camp 18 (still there, I think), and long before that was the Elderberry Inn, just past the tunnels.

And Oney's, at the Nehalem Hwy junction.

[Ginger]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

I don't recall this place, and we drove that way to Long Beach.

I remember Camp 18 (still there, I think), and long before that was the Elderberry Inn, just past the tunnels.

And Oney's, at the Nehalem Hwy junction.

OOPS.. my bad. I always get Hwy 101 and 26 mixed up.

It was actually at the Necanicum Junction at HWY 53 and 26. The building is right across the way from the mini-mart and the huge DQ billboard. Only a few references left on the web. Here was the address:

Scooter's Family Restaurant
83189 Highway 53, Seaside OR

Unfortunately, Oney's burned down... I haven't been past there in a few months, so I don't know how rebuilding is going.

[EJsGirl]

Mmmmmmm... breakfast.

In San Clemente, it's the seafood place on the pier- great breakfasts and a great view.

In Manhattan, it's a toss-up. For a chill quickie, it's the little Russian(?) place around the corner from the Ritz Carlton Central Park. For local color, it's the Bus Stop Cafe in Greenwich Village, on Hudson Street. For OMFGOD IT'S GOOD BUT I JUST SPENT A WEEKS'S WORTH OF CASH, it's Norma's in the lobby of Le Parker Meridien- home of the $1000 omelet. Yes, you read that right- I haven't seen anyone order it yet, though.

On edit- and two Newport Beach classics- Charlie's Chili at McFadden Wharf and the Stuft Surfer at 15th Street.

[SmartAleq]

Also on the way to the Oregon coast is the Otis Cafe and bakery in Otis--can't miss it, it's next door to the post office. Killer good chicken fried steak, onsite bakery turning out some massively delicious loaves, the molasses bread is divine.

The Multnomah Falls Lodge serves a mindbogglingly delicious breakfast and as long as you avoid the Sunday brunch like home grown plague it's quite reasonably priced as well. I like getting up really, really early, hiking up to the top of the falls and along the gorge at the top for a while, then hitting the lodge for breakfast on the way home--generally for a nap! You can try eating first, then hiking, but if you do that you can't have the chicken fried steak which is too bad because it's delicious. A nice salmon omelette perhaps, or a mess o'blueberry muffins.

My all 'round favorite place for when I'm not travelling and I don't want to shower before I eat is the Tik-Tok Lounge on SE 112th and Division. Seedy ass bar but really good food, thick pepper bacon, really good sausage gravy, chicken fried steak to die for. Anyone sensing the common chicken fried theme here? If I have the grandkid with me we can't eat at the Tik-Tok, though, on account of it's a full on bar with no minors allowed anywhere, any time so we usually go to Greg's Back Yard or The Farmhouse on SE 82nd near Powell.

The Hot Cake House on SE Powell at the foot of the Ross Island Bridge used to be good but they fucked up their gravy and now I can't stand to eat there. I have better places, closer.

Anyone in Cali know if The Squeeze Inn is still open in Truckee? They made the best damned omelettes I've ever eaten, bar none. It wasn't just the big chunks of homemade sausage and thick bacon and fresh eggs--it was the choice of sauces to go on top of the omelette that really put the topper on the cake. There was cheese, mushroom or tomato soup style sauce simmering in three big vats and it got ladelled over the humongous omelettes. Damn, that place was cool--only seated about 25 people tops, looked like it was a roofed over space between two buildings.

Dammit, now I'm hungry!

[takowasakun]

Price Hill Chili in Cincinnati. Yes, I know Cincinnati chili isn't the same as chili con carne. I don't care. Cincinnati chili is not trying to be chili con carne, you intolerant cads.

Besides, I don't have chili for breakfast, they have a wonderful menu of breakfast foods to choose from, I just always end up going with the pancakes, hash browns, goetta, and eggs platter. Mmmmmmm, a better breakfast was never conceived.

Not many places really offer breakfast here in Itoigawa. Gusto does, but they are also just about the most mediocre family restaurant in existence. The cafe downtown does, too, but, again, pretty mediocre.

The best breakfast I've had in town was at the Sasakura Onsen Resort Hotel, really, really good breakfast, but you also pretty much have to pay the 100 dollars for a night's stay to get it.

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by Ginger

OOPS.. my bad. I always get Hwy 101 and 26 mixed up.

It was actually at the Necanicum Junction at HWY 53 and 26. The building is right across the way from the mini-mart and the huge DQ billboard. Only a few references left on the web. Here was the address:

Scooter's Family Restaurant
83189 Highway 53, Seaside OR

Unfortunately, Oney's burned down... I haven't been past there in a few months, so I don't know how rebuilding is going.

Too ban about Oney's. I never had the chance to stop there. I do remember a mini mart at the junction.

Originally Posted by SmartAleq

Also on the way to the Oregon coast is the Otis Cafe and bakery in Otis--can't miss it, it's next door to the post office. Killer good chicken fried steak, onsite bakery turning out some massively delicious loaves, the molasses bread is divine.

By the time I hit Otis I'm usually on a tear to get to Lincoln City. I'll have to stop and check it out next time.

Originally Posted by SmartAleq

The Multnomah Falls Lodge serves a mindbogglingly delicious breakfast and as long as you avoid the Sunday brunch like home grown plague it's quite reasonably priced as well. I like getting up really, really early, hiking up to the top of the falls and along the gorge at the top for a while, then hitting the lodge for breakfast on the way home--generally for a nap! You can try eating first, then hiking, but if you do that you can't have the chicken fried steak which is too bad because it's delicious. A nice salmon omelette perhaps, or a mess o'blueberry muffins.

I haven't been there in ages. My (step)niece and her fiance were in town last month and we visited the Falls, but ate a picnic lunch in the parking lot.

I remember the old Chinook Inn near Benson Lake, further east on 84. I was fishing at Roslyn Lake with some buddies and we stopped in there for burgers and beer. They closed it not long afterward.

Originally Posted by SmartAleq

My all 'round favorite place for when I'm not travelling and I don't want to shower before I eat is the Tik-Tok Lounge on SE 112th and Division. Seedy ass bar but really good food, thick pepper bacon, really good sausage gravy, chicken fried steak to die for. Anyone sensing the common chicken fried theme here? If I have the grandkid with me we can't eat at the Tik-Tok, though, on account of it's a full on bar with no minors allowed anywhere, any time so we usually go to Greg's Back Yard or The Farmhouse on SE 82nd near Powell.

Been there! My parents used to go to the original one on Sandy Blvd (where The Old Wives Tale is now). It was a drive-in, and along with The Speck on Foster it was a prime place to hang out in the 60s.

The Hot Cake House was a great spot for late-hour dining. That and Sam's Hof Brau near PSU. It's gone, and I haven't been to the other in years. I used to stop at the Bear Paw Tavern, back when the Aladin was an X-rated theater. And the Semaphore on 17th, near TriMet's barn, was another good place to eat.

[hakuna matata]

Zeener

I love that place--they have a good menu and great bacon as I recall. I also love the bakery in this town as well--I always buy more then I can eat when I go in, but they have so many selections and I can't pick one item out, so I end up getting about 10.

I was just over there--but about 20 miles north in Moclips--that is where I hurt my leg. The restaurant there was great for dinner, we didn't stay for breaksfast though this morning. The restaurant is called the 'Ocean Crest Resort Retaurant' if you are up at that end of the coast.

[Doyle]

McDonalds

[Roo]

I was going to say IHOP because that sounded more upscale, but yeah, I like McDonald's too.

It's a really, really rare treat to have an egg mcmuffin (without the ham, scrape off most of the cheese-like stuff and take out the egg yolk) with a hash brown. Yum!

[Doyle]

Originally Posted by Roo

I was going to say IHOP because that sounded more upscale, but yeah, I like McDonald's too.

It's a really, really rare treat to have an egg mcmuffin (without the ham, scrape off most of the cheese-like stuff and take out the egg yolk) with a hash brown. Yum!

Sausage McGriddles are heaven.

[takowasakun]

Originally Posted by Doyle Hargraves

Sausage McGriddles are heaven.

THANK YOU!

There is, sadly, no McDonald's here, but every time I have an overnight stay out of town, I make a point to have a McGriddle for breakfast. Or I guess they call them Makkuguridoru over here, but same idea.

God, they're good.

[whirlingbladesofkick]

Originally Posted by Roo

It's a really, really rare treat to have an egg mcmuffin (without the ham, scrape off most of the cheese-like stuff and take out the egg yolk) with a hash brown. Yum!

So, english muffin with egg white? Yum.

[takowasakun]

The thing with McMuffins is that I can pretty make one of those at home with almost no difficulty. McGriddles, on the other hand, are made from magic and leprechaun tears. Both of which are difficult ingredients to come by. Ever try to make a leprechaun cry? Jolly bunch of fuckers, they are.

[whirlingbladesofkick]

You just have to pinch them, reeeaaaaal hard. It works for everyone.

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by hakuna matata

Zeener

I love that place--they have a good menu and great bacon as I recall. I also love the bakery in this town as well--I always buy more then I can eat when I go in, but they have so many selections and I can't pick one item out, so I end up getting about 10.

I was just over there--but about 20 miles north in Moclips--that is where I hurt my leg. The restaurant there was great for dinner, we didn't stay for breaksfast though this morning. The restaurant is called the 'Ocean Crest Resort Retaurant' if you are up at that end of the coast.

Cottage Bakery. Yeah, I make a point to stop in there at least once. My dad used to buy sailor jacks by the dozen and bring them to our cabin.

I was in Moclips back in 1974. We stayed at the Iron Horse Resort. Dug clams, then relaxed by the pool. I remember a shipwreck on the beach (Peter Iredale?) that we were able to explore. Someone told me recently that it's gone now.

[Roo]

Originally Posted by whirlingbladesofkick

So, english muffin with egg white? Yum.

Yup, pretty much. But don't forget the cheese-like flavor that gets cooked onto the english muffin that can't be totally scraped off.

[SmartAleq]

Originally Posted by Roo

Yup, pretty much. But don't forget the cheese-like flavor that gets cooked onto the english muffin that can't be totally scraped off.

WHOOOO!! Livin' on the edge, man! YEE-HAWWW!!

[takowasakun]

Roo is perhaps one of our wilder posters.

[Canuck_Kat]

I have to ask, what is a chicken fried steak? And what kind of biscuits do you get with biscuits and gravy? Are they baking powder biscuits or something else? And is it a beef gravy? I have never seen either of those items on a menu up here but they seem to be common in the U.S.

[takowasakun]

Chicken-fried steak is a steak that is coated in flour (usually with seasoning of some kind) and fried in a skillet, much as one would fry, say, chicken. Hence the name. Although some people call it country-fried steak to avoid any confusion. Think of it as wiener schnitzel, but with cube steak instead of veal.

And with biscuits and gravy you get normal baking powder biscuits. The gravy is usually a sausage-and-cream gravy. Serving suggestion picture.

Both of these dishes are typically associated with the Southeastern US, but can be found just about anywhere in the country.

[3acres]

Originally Posted by seodoa

And with biscuits and gravy you get normal baking powder biscuits. The gravy is usually a sausage-and-cream gravy. Serving suggestion picture.

I've read before that discussions of biscuits and gravy tend to lead to religious wars. In that fine tradition, I'd like to state that although I agree with your stated definition of the biscuits and the gravy, I think that photo is all wrong. That 'biscuit' looks more like a hamburger bun, and it appears to have been cut in half rather than pulled apart, which is a cardinal sin! Additionally, it shows the top of the biscuit put back on, as though it was a biscuit and gravy sandwich.

I'd like to offer this photo of prepared biscuits and gravy from Hardee's. And since the Hardee's biscuits are very correctly obscured by being smothered in the sausage gravy, I'll throw in this picture of proper baking powder biscuits (these DO look a bit small, but their form is correct).

[Panacea]

I think seodoa's pic shows a "whop-em" biscuit, not a true baking-powder biscuit.

My favorite breakfast place is my kitchen. I can't be arsed to get up, get dressed, and spend money somewhere else for breakfast. Especially since my biscuits are the best anyway.

[SoylentPopTart]

Originally Posted by Canuck_Kat

I have to ask, what is a chicken fried steak? And what kind of biscuits do you get with biscuits and gravy? Are they baking powder biscuits or something else? And is it a beef gravy? I have never seen either of those items on a menu up here but they seem to be common in the U.S.

You poor thing....
What kind of backwards third world country do you live in where you haven't had sausage gravy or country fried steak?

[Canuck_Kat]

Originally Posted by SoylentPopTart

You poor thing....
What kind of backwards third world country do you live in where you haven't had sausage gravy or country fried steak?

Heh, I think we can get country fried steak here but I am certain I have never seen biscuits and gravy. I can feel my arteries clogging just looking at the pictures! On the other hand we have poutine.

[SoylentPopTart]

Originally Posted by Canuck_Kat

Heh, I think we can get country fried steak here but I am certain I have never seen biscuits and gravy. I can feel my arteries clogging just looking at the pictures! On the other hand we have poutine.

I've sent out a team of schoolchildren with paper collection boxes to canvas the neighborhood. Soon they will have collected enough spare change to airdrop some sausage and gravy, chipped beef and Lipitor to your location.

[Canuck_Kat]

Originally Posted by SoylentPopTart

I've sent out a team of schoolchildren with paper collection boxes to canvas the neighborhood. Soon they will have collected enough spare change to airdrop some sausage and gravy, chipped beef and Lipitor to your location.

I would like to thank you on behalf of my cardiologist. On another food note my mom married a relocated American from Atlanta Georgia, he has lived up here for over 40 years and still reminices about southern food.

[Kat]

Wildberry, which has the best chocolate chip pancakes around. The rest of their stuff is good, too, but I can rarely resist the urge to order their chocolate chip pancakes.

[HongKongFooey]

Originally Posted by seodoa

Ever try to make a leprechaun cry? Jolly bunch of fuckers, they are.

The order of progression for Leprechaun torture goes thusly:

• Make them watch while you shoot another leprechaun in the head. It's kinda cool, a rainbow pops out the other side!
• Pour a pint o' Guinness down the drain. Which, unfortunately, would make me cry too but the little bastard forced your hand right?
• Make him watch the Leprechaun movies, 1 AND 2. If you get to this stage it's one sick fuck of a Leprechaun you're dealing with but they'll cry all right.

[Carolia]

Monell's Restaurant in Nashville is my hands-down breakfast favorite. I believe I've mentioned them before in the favorite restaurants thread. They do family style eating--about 10-12 to a table, pass the food to your right. They do a full southern breakfast with biscuits and gravy, country ham, fried apples, eggs & bacon, and so much more. If you aren't stuffed when you leave, it's your own fault.

[BarbarianAtTheGate]

The finest breakfast emporium ever created, at least as my long-ago drunken teenage self looking to satisfy his cravings at 2:45 am is concerned, was Sambo's. Sadly, for fairly obvious reasons, they no longer exist as a chain. Now, in my dotage, I simply make do with a waffle iron and Carbon's Golden Malted Waffle Flour. I blame Bush, of course.

[Zeener Diode]

Might surprise you to know there's a Li'l Sambo's in Lincoln City, OR. It's not part of the Sambo's chain that came and went; it's been a long-time fixture of the coastal town. I remember their 4-egg omelets. Sad to say, it was sold and the new management has let it slide.

[freudian_slip]

Ol' South Pancake House in Fort Worth, Texas
Or, Muriel's in New Orleans (hope that brunch counts )

[Muskrat Love]

Cafe Brazil has an awesome breakfast menu and great coffee. They usually have about a half-dozen interesting kinds of coffee available for their "bottomless cup".

[Rebo]

Waffle House.

Scattered, smothered and covered hashbrowns, baby. Mmm.

Chicken fried steak is so much more than steak dusted with seasoned flour and fried. To make it "chicken fried," you dip in seasoned flour, dip in beaten egg mixed with a bit of milk, then dip in seasoned flour again. The second flouring should be really pressed onto the steak, to form a crust. Then you fry it. Drain on paper towels, and make your gravy in the drippings. (Pour off most of the drippings.) Scatter some flour into the grease, and stir to make a roux. Brown it just a bit, then whisk in some milk, salt and pepper. Lots of pepper. That's cream gravy. To make sausage gravy, just brown some sausage, and then go through the steps above to make the gravy. You can leave the sausage in the pan.

-Rebo
Southern Texan

[takowasakun]

Awh, I forgot about the second dip. It's not really a necessity, I suppose, but it really does make them taste a heckuva lot better.

I might have to make some for dinner tomorrow. But with pork, just because beef is too expensive.

[St. Urho]

My favorite is the South Side Walnut Cafe in Boulder.

I also love breakfast burritos from Santiagos. In fact, I'm eating one right now.

[Gumby]

my house, i hasdc cinnasmon rolls. and bagels. and pancakes and waaffeles and biskcuits. hekl yehan.

[takowasakun]

Gumby, you appear to be more in the correct state of mind for Big Boy or Waffle House.

[BarbarianAtTheGate]

Originally Posted by seodoa

Gumby, you appear to be more in the correct state of mind for Big Boy or Waffle House.

Would have fit right in at my table at Sambo's, back in the day. Of course, that was 35 years ago...

[Gumby]

Waffle house is a place for drunks, I mean they need to see large pictures to remind them what waffles and pancakes look like. And do they ever even clean inside of them?

[gotpasswords]

Some of the best breakfasts I ever had were at a little hole in the wall place in Chicago. Think it was in the 2800 block of Lincoln. Not far north of Diversey, at any rate. The streetside entrance was nothing more than a gate between two apartment buildings, and the restaurant itself was nestled into a tiny sliver of space.

Felt more like slipping into a speakeasy than walking into a restaurant.