Mexican? Ballard? Senor Moose of course!

Well Happy Fathers day to all the Dads out there! It was mens choice today for breakfast, naturally we chose Mexican, ol Hot T and Me. The FF 's destination of choice on this most hallowed of days was Senor Moose! a tiny little cafe on Leary ave in YaSure you betcha Ballard. It came highly recommended from a friend at work and also rave reviews from "Seattle" magazine. We arrived about 9:00 and there was quite a line, the staff quoted us a 30 minute wait . Ok we drove from Federal Way, whats 30 minutes, give or take. They did offer coffee to those who were waiting,and there were quite a few of us in the same predicament, a good sign I thought.... The Jo was Fantasmically good! {another good sign} probably the best coffee to date since I've been bloggin all o this. I was very happy, 30 minutes later we were seated, Yay! 20 minutes later they took our order! not so yay. Well they were busy so I thought to myself ,"aint no thaing"I had some good coffee.Msue as she always does, wanted her Ice T w/lemon,well no lemons just limes,strike 1 ! ,a small strike, but a strike non the less. We did finally order and both the chickies ordered Chorizo Con Huevos ,a scramble, with black beans,torillas on the side. Smoj Val once again ordered just Agua to drink I guess she just cant be labeled buy her bev o choice! Neither of the Gals thought much of their food, and quite frankly, it was rather bland, MSue said it didnt feel much like Sunday Breakfast,Strike 2!. HTK ordered coffee ! What ? well it was Decaff but no T for Ken today, cmon Ken have some caffeine for once!, oh well I wouldn't want to harsh his mellow. HTK {or DeCaff Ken} ordered Huevos Divorciados Especiale! Eggs poached tortillas, potatoes and chorizo I think with a salsa verde and salsa roja, with avocados and cream, he liked it he said. So I said did you like it like it ? I dont think they will date again. I believe Ol HTK will order differantly next time. My Food was Chorizo Con Papas, It was Papas day after all! but in this case papas meant potatoes. It was all mixed up with sliced cactus and topped with two eggarinas,{small eggs} ordered over medium, arrived fried hard! Steeerike 3!!, not very spicy without the help of my favorite Mexican beverage ,Tapatio. Mine with the exception of the eggs was not bad, It got rave reviews, this cafe did, but today it was nothing really to rave about, ceptin for the Coffee, which was off the hook! Northstar was the brand I believe and it was almost worth the drive, will we go back? in all fairness maybe . They have lunch and dinner as well, and you gotta love the name! We did drive up to Greenwood ,to Mikalas for The best Chai Lattes ever, yuk! but the chicks like em yum yum yummy Val exclaimed, and I had some of their coffee, feelin pretty zippy now! Arriba! Arriba!,Happy Fathers Day Dad! Still missing you after all these years!

Catfish for breakfast?

In probably what used to be the most notorious part of Tacoma is a tiny cafe called the "Southern Kitchen" Yep, just passed the "Welcome to Hilltop" sign at the intersection of 6th and Sprague sits this place and apparently the Food Network has visited here as well as some of the other joints we've been to. Well just like the name states its full of southy type food, they have Liver and onions for breakfast two eggs and browns to boot,none of us ordered it ,Heck no! but I thought I'd bring it up.Msue had CFS, the meat had grilled onions on top and then topped with pretty good gravy,she had of course, eggs scrambled "well done"side o salsa.. Ice T w/lemon, I bet I could order for her at any place, she doesn't steer to clear of her favs!Buuut no salsa, she was a bit perplexed as to why no salsa, but we assume that in the south where there's hot sauce aplenty, no salsa. too mexican I guess., but the Ice T came in a quart jar, unsweetened for her of course. They have plenty of sweet tea versions however, strawberry, peach, as well as lemonade all topped with whipped cream! They like things sweet down south!SMOJ Val ordered French toast,two eggs scrambled,chunk o ham, and had H2O instead of her small oj, Weird huh? quite frankly she didn't much care for her meal, the eggs were dry, the ham was kinda sweet and spicy, it just wasn't smoj's day . HTK of course started with Hot T and ordered a Hot link sausage and cheddar omlette,{Which was gonna be my choice} with browns and toast,{no rye bread sorry Ken}, it looked like about a six egg affair,plenty big, but not much kick from the hot links, Ken exclaimed! I thought well as long as I'm in the South, yeh ok South Tacoma, might as well try to fit in,so I ordered Catfish and Eggs Y'all , and I gotta tell ya, I liked it! the fish was light and crispy, the eggs were over medium perfect and what browns I got were pretty good{not real generous with the taters} I should have just gone all South on em and ordered me up some grits, cuz at the Southern Kitchen they come with everything , oh well maybe next time, If there is indeed a next time, My meal was pretty good, the other members of theFF, were not to impressed hugely. The coffee here was not that good ,really just basic cafe type , not great, but not too good either... get my drift? I dont know what it is bout restaurants and their Jo, but I can only assume when you pour that much in a day maybe its too spendy to buy quality... this is one of those times when I guess most people like this type of swill so "quantity over quality"wins out. Will we go back ? Yeh I might , gotta try the Grits! tune in next week boys and girls, and see where the "Famished Four " strike next, might try the Hobnobber Bar, cross from Wright Park , we ate there a long time ago and I think it was pretty good. other places in our site are The Maltby Cafe, maybe Beths,I wonder what Beths food taste like when your not hungover and 21, which was probably the last time I was there! All I know is were gonna go somewhere, and lotsa times we dont know till sunday morn!