random facts girl » Food&Drink http://www.soychicka.com Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:43:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Grocery shopping in Little Havana http://www.soychicka.com/2007/07/28/grocery-shopping-in-little-havana/ http://www.soychicka.com/2007/07/28/grocery-shopping-in-little-havana/#comments Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:52:20 +0000 admin http://www.soychicka.com/?p=91 Have you ever seen someone try to negotiate the price of every single item in their cart while in the checkout line?

How about all three people in front of you trying to negotiate the price of every single item in their carts while in the checkout line?

Only at the Publix at 27th Avenue and Coral Way in Miami, where it takes a minimum of 45 minutes to get through the checkout line.

Two stars for sometimes having the food I want. Sometimes.

Screw that. I’m going to Milam’s instead.

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    • ]]>     When I first moved to San Francisco, I lived in the Outer Sunset.  I thought that I could live near the beach and 511.org told me that Muni would get me to work in a half hour.
    Two weeks later, I had learned better.  So, when my father offered to drive my car (and my dog) out from the midwest, I gratefully accepted.
    The first morning he was here, it became quite clear that my father was obsessed with a phenomenon known as “ Frisco French Toast.”  However, a quick search of google revealed no results (yes, no results at all – well, at least until now) for the dish.  Is it sourdough french toast?  French toast made from sprouted whole grain bread and topped with organic fruit and granola?  Or is it served with locally produced meyer lemon marmalade and Niman Ranch applewood smoked bacon?   He didn’t know, how to describe it, but that’s what he wanted.
    So, since our dining options in the Outer Sunset were quite limited,  I took my dad to John’s Ocean Beach Cafe, two blocks from the beach and right across the street from the SF Zoo.
    The next morning, I took him here again.
    Three days in a row?  Yup, he wanted to go again.

    Solid food, ingredients are a couple of tiers up from greasy spoon, but still served with enough grease to tame my tummy the morning after a night on the town.   Scrambles and omeletes galore, but the various incarnations of eggs benedict are what usually garner my attention.  John’s potatoes are tasty enough to warrant take-away when I’m serving up a batch of my pancakes for breakfast at home.

    Four stars for the food, but an extra star for the artwork on the wall: alongside the standard shots of the Embarcadero and construction of the Bay bridge, movie stills from the dawn of technicolor and a huge black velvet Elvis in the corner mate with the rockinest non-functioning jukebox in the city.

    John’s falls just shy of five stars for serving up long pours on their espresso drinks and only having pancake syrup, not real maple syrup.  Yeah, it’s a diner, but if you’ve got it on the menu, you’ve gotta bring it.

    But did my dad ever find his “Frisco” french toast?  Yup, he found it at John’s.  It wasn’t organic, it wasn’t fancy-schmancy, and it wasn’t even served with real maple syrup.  But it was made at the edge of the world in San Francisco, and it turns out that was enough to make it special.

    2898 Sloat Blvd
    San Francisco, CA 94116

    (415) 665-8292

    Cuisine: American

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