As we were walking into the Mission Café in San Juan Bautista,
The Mission Café, constructed about 1856, is a a block from the Plaza Hotel.
Zanetta also built what he hoped would be the county courthouse, but when Hollister was
This Mission Cafe had been closed for a number of years and reopened in March 2008. Those who knew the café in both its past and present lives say that nothing has changed all that much.
In the front window is a large table for six or eight. Along the side are four four-seater booths. In the middle are four small tables for two and there are ten stools at the counter. So max, this place, which is open only for breakfast and lunch, seats forty-two.
The breakfast menu is extensive, but I fortunately had read a few on-line reviews and noted one reviewer had raved about the San Juan Special. This was a take on Eggs Benedict substituting sautéed fresh vegetables for the traditional Canadian bacon or ham. Sounded good to me.
What came was more than just good. I was scrumptious. First, the toasted English muffin was crisp, but could still be cut with a fork. Have you ever had Eggs Benedict where the muffin can’t be cut with a steak knife? I have. Second, the eggs were perfectly poached with no runny white and lots of runny yolk.
With this came a large serving of hash browns, cooked crisp as I requested. I am sure that ninety percent of the time, restaurant hash browns are poured frozen from a bag. So my standard of measure is whether, under the crisp shell, they retain some form of texture integrity. No soft mushy center for me, please.
Chuck eyed a breakfast that included eggs, chicken fried steak,
His home fries were made with new white skin-on potatoes, grilled with bell pepper slices and onions. If they had been my home fries, I would liked them crisper. But they were his home fries, and he seemed to think they were just fine.
I don’t think this breakfast counts as the “more interesting food” that he referred to yesterday. Still, this was a very good diner breakfast and still merits a 4.0 Addie rating.
I dodged a bullet this time!
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