Oysters again! uh huh!

Well I told you we'd go back to the Bay Cafe in Ballard, and today we did just that!,I mean they have oysters, what more do I have to say. Not only is the food at the Bay terrific, the service at this not so little cafe is beyond compare, Coffee ? always full, Ice T? ditto!if they're not fillin something or bringin something, they're tryin to.Even if the food sucked,I might go there anyways just to be served by the pros at the Bay!Sooo food wise, it was a four way Benedict love fest for the starving four, Small OJ snuggled up with Val,and Hot T got personal with Ken, Yep Ice T for Msue and Juppa Coe for me, as is my use. Msue and Val both had Seafood benny,cept for Msue had hers with eggs scrambled well done. All the Bennys come with crispy browns and fresh fruit ,delishariffic! Ken had Sausage Benny, also quite tasty!.. Me ? Weell I gotta say, OYSTER BENEDICT! Oh my goodness, oh my goodness. Four of the crispy little shellfish, resting on a bed o spinach on top of an english muffin, poached eggs, hollendaise.. oh my, I need to rest a bit ... Ok I'm better now... It was just all so oystery! plus browns and fruit,Holy Mackerel! it was good. Soo Service? excellant, Food ? beyond that, Coffee ? dont care, the food is that good! Third trip to the Bay Cafe ? Hell yeh! they have an Oyster Omlette!

Browns Point Diner

Not to sound redundent, but yeperdoodle, it's sunday again,and what that means , for me anyway is breakfast. That familiar gastro pang that wont go away or be satisfied until properly addressed! Sooo today the victim of our ravenous assault is the Browns Point Diner. Tucked in to a little strip mall sort of thing ,along with a cleaners, a pizza joint and a Ace hardware sits a little cafe on the corner that the "feeding frenzied four" have been to a number of times, we just haven't really been there since we've been taking notes. Today, semi solo once again,Msue's out of town again,yes again...and I'm still hungry ! Sooo Ken and Val picked me up and away we went. You wouldn't know this place was there unless you lived in Browns Point, not exactly on the way to anywhere in particular,It doesn't seem to be very busy on sunday morning, which for us works out good, and I gotta feelin the Brointanites{people that live there} like it that way. This place is right on marine view drive or 509 so it's easy to find , it just takes a bit to get there,But lemme tell you, its well worth the drive! They have a complete menu, from b-fast to dinner,we have only sampled their breakfast fare so far, but by the way its gone, lunch or dinner there doesn't seem out of the question.Of course hot tea had Ken, and small oj had its way with Val, Yep , yep,yep, hot jo for me as always ,and pretty good brown stuff it was! Val had the Pancake breakfast, Two cakes ,two eggs, choice o meat {bacon was the victim here} excellamundo! she exclaimed !, well she really didn't say those exact words but I know what she meant,As for HTK {hot t Ken} he had the waffle breakfast, 1 cute little waffle ,two eggs and meat du jour {sausage I believe} As was with Vals ,damn good! I feel obligated when the little woman is not in attendance to have CFS, I guess I miss her ,cept I dont go for that eggs scrambled well done nonsense,I likes me eggs fried I do, over medium please. The BPD's CFS is off the hook! my dizzle, crispy and well cooked ,sausage gravy not too salty, and cripsy{yes I said cripsy} browns plus toast of choice, plus pretty good coffee. I've had other items at this place as well , their Eggs Benny is awful.. awful darn good, great hollandaise, MSue's usual ,a scramble of sorts is always to her liking, and you know that guy Joe? he's got a special there as well, but the real standout item on their menu, for me anyways is their Monte Cristo Sandwich,oh my frikkin gosh !is it good ! Ham, turkey, swiss cheese, pineapple dipped in egg batter and fried up mmm mmm wow! not exactly diet friendly,but hey if thats what you want , they have that as well , its called the Old Mans breakfast, 1 egg ,2 links, browns and toast {silly isn't it} for about 5 bucks, tho not bad for an old man. So Iv'e tried to find something I didn't like at this cafe ,but I dont think they have it!..... Msues out of town.... maybe dinner? naw it's probably great too! Browns Point Diner , along with some of the views,well worth the trip baby!

Portage Bay Cafe

Well today Blog followers there was the four of us together again,MSue is back from her business trip and last week was Easter of course. I spose I could've blogged about my Sister in laws brunch spread but you all would have been bored senseless about me carrying on about how good and perfect it was and always is when at MSues sisters house, so that stated on with our sunday trip to Ballard. We chose the Ballard locale of the Portage Bay Cafe today for no particular reason, I guess I wanted to drive to Ballard, must be my Norwegian heritage, there are two other locations for this well touted cafe, south Lake Union on Terry ave. and in the U district on Roosevelt. Ya sure you betcha!, we went to Ballard. It was a busy place and we had about a half hour wait till we were seated at a nice little window table slightly below street level, so we had a nice mid shin view of people walking by at the end of Market St. by the Locks. The Ballard cafe is also organic as opposed to the other locales so they have some selections of that persuasion as well as some gluten free items. That sort of thing doesn't sell me one way or the other, but it seems to work for most of the Ballard types cuz the joint was packed! Ok enough with prelims, what about the frikkin food! Well I'll tell you... they have quite the menu at Portage Bay and I after some thought, decided on "Corn cake Benedict". It was two corn cakes with ham and onions topped with poached eggs with a gruyere cheese sauce,as opposed to a hollandaise and pretty good roasted taters, I dont know why I change things up like I sometimes do, but it sounded kinda good, and it was , Kinda good. not overly hot, one egg was slightly under done and one was slightly over done so I guess it was a wash. The coffee however was excellant, so my meal by the virtue of the quality of the jo was a solid 7 or high 6. MSue order the Cafe Scramble well done, side o salsa , side o bacon, Ice Tea with lemon. It also came with the roasted potatoes and one slice of toast ,and with the homemade jam [raspberry I think] it looked pretty darn good, she said it was really good and took about half home. Val ordered a omlette as a scramble also pretty much what Msue ordered, cept she had of course a small oj, bout a quart of juice , big small there I'd say! she also thought it was pretty good. Ken ordered Apple Walnut Pancakes, which looked good, but he didn't really care for it. They have a toppings bar for the pancakes and the french toast, which I thought was kinda neat, lotsa fruit, whipped cream , sryups and nuts... very popular.Good ol Ken changed it up for breakfast beverage,he ordered decaff coffee! What? I know he likes to live on the edge sometimes! The French toast looked yumtastic, big ol pile of food that you could doctor up to your hearts content, Which I think if a second trip occurs might just be for me! I didn't think that there would be a difference in regular ketchup and organic... but Annies is no Heinz, weird huh? All in all, not bad , kinda spendy , the bill was about 70 bucks before tip for the four of us, We all decided we'd maybe try it again at a differant location , After all Ballard's a bit of a haul for a high 6 rated breakfast!