Pete's Egg Nest

Yes I realize I've skipped a week, we did have breakfast last week at the Chelan... nuff said! My little darlin Wobes is back from San Francisco and she wanted to go to the Chelan and generally speaking , what little darlin wants, well you know the rest.Soo with Wobes sleeping after a night of whatever with her homies, MSue and I along with HTK {Hot t Ken} and SOJ {Val} off we went to Pete's Egg Nest in Greenwood, Between 65th and 80th on Greenwood ave in north Seattle. The review said to get there early {usually a wait} and parking was questionable. Shoot Son.. HTK dropped the chickies right in front and found a spot to park right across the street, the girls got us a table, and in we walked., Lucky,I've probably been in noisier cafes before, but I dont know when, But I soon realized it was the sound of happy people gettin their grub on! The Decor of this little joint consists of Photos of Greece and Photos of Family. Last week I told Y'all about Voulas,well like Voulas , Petes Egg nest as well as Petes employees, appear to be of Greek descent, that being said, I gotta go to Greece , that is if they eat like this all the time, Criminy! what a pile o food! They have a pretty big menu at Petes and it was hard to make a descision, but we did, and all in all the right one! Msue had the Farmers Scramble, a wheelbarrow full of food ! Eggs, Veggies smothered with Cheddar on top of probably the best Browns ever!! wonderful! MSue exclaimed , but she would have preferred the browns not covered up, all washed down with plenty of Ice T w/lemon, Val had the "California" Scramble, shrooms , avocados and plenty of other veggies... and topped with sour cream.. maan! but I dont think hers was on top of her browns, oh well! As per her usual vitamin C fix, Small OJ did not dissapoint . HTK of course, had his usual English breakfast T, {So British of him!} His choice for food was a Special Benny! It came with andouille sausage , spinach and shrooms with 3 poachers and covered in hollendaise, plus a slab o crispy browns, Holy Mackerel! it looked delish! He said it was , and claimed the browns were the best ever! Well as far as mine went , I usually go for CFS when I go to a new place, So's I can compare how they rate with others I've had.Pete's did not dissapoint no no no , crispy, hot and covered with pretty damn good sausage gravy, a brick size slab of freakin awsome browns, plus 3, yes I said 3, perfectly over medium eggsters!... me likey? Yeppers I did, oh yeh and it came with biscuits and gravy on the side, Wut uuupp! Next time we go there, oh yes there will be a next time! I will order differantly, only because the menu is big, and I had my eyes on a greek sausage and egg thing I gotta try! My only disappointment was the coffee, the service was friendly and the coffee was constantly full, but it was full of Farmers coffee .. not good jo, but hot. Luckily for me around the corner was a little coffee place called Mikalas, Super good drip jo! also in a real mug if you drink it there! much like Fremont Roasters, that I went on and on about in a previous blog. Msue and Val each had a small Chai T, of which they said was fantasmic! I'm thinking of moving up north just for the coffee! So , Did we like Pete's Egg Nest? Yes we did! Will we go back? Yes we will! But there are so many places to try still, although if they ever got in cahoots with the coffee shop around the corner , there may never be a reason to eat anywhere else! Pete's is goin down as a FFF {Famished Four Fav}

Voulas off shore Cafe!

Well I realize that a week has gone by and no Blog, Last week was Mothers Day, and we did go out for breakfast, but we went to the market and while at the market, we dined at Lowells. There were a few things about Mothers Day at the market I should mention. Ok first thing it was sunny, a beautiful spring day in Seattle! Which in my opinion is a reason to not go to the market as well as a reason to be at the market. So many people, no place to park, yada, yada yada. It was however not Fathers Day, so thats where we went. It was good as usual but having blogged about this joint before ,I wont get too deeply into it, but I will say one thing about it. Ken and I dropped off Msue and Val right in front so they could get us a table, we then sped off to park somewhere, We ended up about a half a mile away. The girls informed us that Lowells would not seat them until Ken and I arrived, we would have had a nice window table looking out at the water ,but nooo!, not till the men showed up. They dropped a few notches in my opinion! Oh well, enough about that, today we went to Voula's off shore Cafe . You say Voula's ?, where the hell is Voula's? it's right next door to the Northlake Tavern, home to the famous Northlake Pizza! Everyone in Seattle seems to know about the pizza joint ,but Voula's doesn't ring a bell to a lot of folks,unless of course you live in the U district. It seems a lot of u dubbers like this joint and I understand why! Like I said right on Northlake ave under the Freeway is where you will find this little cafe, and most days Voula herself will seat you! It was featured on Diner's Drive ins, and Dives on the Food Network. We've been there a couple of times and I believe it will become one of Famished Fours Favs {FFF} The portions here are huge, you will either take some home, or you will not eat the rest of the day! Most people that dine here are regulars, they walk in and are greeted by name, sit in their usual seat and sometimes get up and pour their own coffee! at which time Voula will yell at them and ask if they need a job? So Msue always orders the same thing, A Greek Hobo! which is hashbrowns,eggs, onions, peppers and greek sausages all mixed up and covered with Feta cheese! A giant plate o grub,and it is pretty darned good ! They have a regular Hobo as well, reg sausage, cheddar cheese, and still ginormous! Small oj Val had the exact as Msue{makes commenting on this rather simple} they both brought most of it home, to which Voula replied " you didn't finish?,you must wash dishes! Hot T Ken ordered the regular Hobo, to which the waitress talked him out of. She told him the special was what he should get, he could order the Hobo any time. The special was called El Diablo,their version of Huevos Rancheros. Totillas and beans with onions and peppers and jalapenos all topped with a couple of fried cackleberries served over Voulas famous browns,El Plato Gigantico! Ol Hot T said, "best he ever had! It looked awsome! I was going to order the "Big Voula" which is three eggs, Two thick slices o bacon, two slices of greek sausage on top of a huge plate of what are darn near the best browns ever! The hasbrowns cover the entire plate and everything else sits on top! Man what a feed! . That is however not what I ordered, I ordered "Billys Biscuits" Plate of said Browns, topped with two biscuits covered with Sausage gravy,{good enough to eat by it self} and two eggs over medium, as is my will! and enough Hot jo to float a boat ,Holy Mackerel! Strap on the feed bag and put on your Thanksgiving Turky pants, cuz yer gonna need em! not just lotsa food, but lotsa really good food! Highly recommended by the Famished Four, soon to be a FFF! oh yeh , average coffee!

Pike Place for Breakfast mmm good!

I know what your thinking, Hey it's Monday and no breakfast blog! Not so fast my faithfull blogamites, all two of you!Yessereebob, I'm changing it up a bit... but not sos you'd notice it, so let me splain,K? This Sunday I'm not going to blog about! What? but I am going to write a bit about saturday. On sunday {ok I'll write a little} Small oj Val was not in attendance, but hot T Ken stepped up to the plate and we whisked him up and went to The Chelan! yes the Chelan, but having raved on about it in Blogs past, I will for go going on and on about how good it was!, which it was...but I digress..ok, ok, sausage benny for me, special scramble for Msue , regular benny for HTK yeh yeh yeh yum yum yum! So saturday. Msue and I went down to the Pike Place market, you know typical chicky stuff, flowers , pictures, holding hands ... ok not so much on the last part but it was nice, just the two of us, and the two of us had to eat, right? correct amundo bloggers and bloggerinas . Well it was a toss up, Lowells or Ettas, we were buying flowers so we were closer to Lowells.....Lowells it was. We've eaten there before and its always been good, spendy, but good, Msue always gets the Dungeness Crab Benny and she raves about how good it is! Ive in the past, had the Corned Beef Hash{homemade} really good! I've also had the hangtown fry Yep Oysters there too! ,also most yummy.. , But today was different, I dont know if it was my chick side coming out or what, but we split a seafood omelette, yes we split one, {I never split} It had crab and shrimp and halibut, with a hollendaise over it all, crispy browns cooked in butter obviously, and all very good, I like Lowells, you can sit and look out at the Sound or you can sit in the bar and look down at the Market, either way it works. The Coffee? it's ok.. lucky for me while in the market area you can hit any number of Starbucks, all within a limpwristed softball pitch away. No Mini Donuts for me this time, but there's always a next time for Pike Place!