Chow Your Morning Glory
posted by on April 30 at 13:33 PM
Breakfast brings out strong feelings in Stranger readers. Many people wrote in to say we missed their favorite bacon or otherwise fell down on the job in this past week’s Food Fight! Morning Glory Edition. We can’t eat every strip of bacon in the city (much as we’d like to), so here are some of your thoughts.
From the irate Mr. [name redacted] (sic throughout):
You all F’d up!How can you not even mention the 5 Spot in your best breakfasts in Seattle? The Dish? There biscuits and gravy can’t touch the 5 Spot’s. The biscuits are big fresh and aren’t something that comes out of a can. The bacon there is the best I have come accross and you mentioned places like Tilth, Veil and Senior Moose, which the last I might add should be shut down for improper ventilation, I almost cried when I was there because it was so smokey in there.
Get off your asses and wait in line for some breakfast at the 5 Spot, or try it during the week when there are no lines.
Like I said you all F’d up!
Interestingly, some Stranger reader-reviewers completely oppose Mr. [name redacted]’s point of view, while some entirely support it. Food fight!
From the more moderate mind of the splendidly named Berl Nussbaum:
I looked in vain for my favorite breakfast place, LC’s Kitchen. With your cadre of reviewers overwhelmed by geography and sheer numbers of Seattle restaurants, I’m not surprised. Lake City Way doesn’t even qualify as a region on the breakfast map.A prisoner of granola and breakfast virtue, I seldom walk on the fatty side before noon—but LC’s is always a weekend temptation. They have a variant on hash browns—more like 3-D potato latkes, really—that occasionally appears on the menu, alone worth the trip. If you ever feel adventurous, maybe give it a try—or send one of your minions. Ambience? Well, it’s unprepossessing, Lake City Way after all. But homey and tasty—and mercifully uncrowded on weekends. I wouldn’t mind seeing more crowds, it’ll help them survive.
Thanks.
No, no: Thank YOU, Berl.
Ms. Emily Parker instructs re: “BOMB breakfast grub”:
Wonderful article on breakfast and drinking for breakfast… the best way to fill the void. My favorite spot is CJ’s on 1st in Belltown. I only ever order their pancakes (they have crispy edges, a very exciting pancake), but my friend tells me they have other stuff on the menu he claims is also good.Have a spectacular day!
You too, Emily!
And two anonymous AOL users wrote about the Hi-Spot (conspiracy?):
I think it’s kind of strange that y’all missed my favorite, The Hi Spot Cafe in all categories. They, in fact, have the best bacon I’ve had in quite sometime. Almost always have to wait for a table, but it’s worth it!!
Hi, seriously have you tried the bacon at the Hi Spot Cafe??? It is some of the best bacon you can buy and a must try. At lunchtime it becomes the best BLT known to mankind!!!
Thank you all. As you were.
[An aside: I said I wouldn’t disparage the $38.95-per-person brunch buffet at Salty’s on Alki here, but then I did anyway. Apparently people love a liquid chocolate fountain: Burn on me, Salty’s grossed $11.5 MILLION DOLLARS last year, making it one of only three restaurants in Washington state among the country’s 100 top-grossing independent restaurants (from the terribly named Restaurants & Institutions magazine, via the PI’s Rebekah Denn). Stranger reader-reviewers still think Salty’s sucks.]
The thought of facing Salty's for breakfast is more than I can stand.
Yeah. I was going to write in and complain about the hipster and yuppie bias that kept almost all mention of diners and pancake houses out of the article. Where was Cyndy's House of Pancakes on Aurora? Pancake Chef in Sea-Tac (now there's some biscuits and gravy)? Pancake Corral in Bellevue?
5-spot's biscuits and gravy is pretty good, if you like massive amounts of onion. The gravy is far too tangy in my opinion.
I'm also partial to CJs in Belltown.
ha! He cried in Senor Moose! What a tool.
Pancake Corral is still there? That's nice to know. I'd assumed it had been demolished in favor of something "upscale" or "world class". I've had no use for Bellevue since they tore down the Dairy Queen.
The Olympic Hotel used to do a Sunday Brunch that would make Salty's look like a McDonalds Big Breakfast. I'm not sure if they still offer it anymore.
CJ's does rock. I love the Eggs Benedict, which is only served on weekends.
With all due respect to [name redacted], I happen to know that he used to and may still work at 5 Spot. (He was not there the last time I was there.) And before he worked at Hi-Life, just up the street from Senor Moose.
The only reason to take the trek over to Salty's on the weekend is if you simply want to pig-out on the all-you-can eat seafood, and just skip the rest of the brunch entirely.
In which case, it almost becomes a bargain.
There are two things I miss about living in Bellevue: Casa D's and Pancake Corral. Man, that place ruled.
While I've never had bacon at the 5 Spot (vegetarian, duh), and their dinner can occasionally not be worth as much as they charge for it, I have NEVER had a bad breakfast there. And their Irish coffees are perfect. Yum.
3-D potato latkes...? I AM INTRIGUED.
I am just glad they didn't mention Ray's Boathouse for bloody marys (or brunch). Cause then it would be even more crowded there on the weekends. Their Bloody marys are the best in the city.
And pancake corral is the shit.
What is WITH everyone and fucking bacon? I hate bacon. It’s bacon this, bacon that, all the gd time, everywhere I go! When did it become so fucking hip to profess your unyielding love for bacon at every single gd opportunity?
ENOUGH already! Can we talk about sushi or something else, lard asses.
Bacon sushi, @13? Now you're talking!
Bacon has totally jumped the shark. Please find a new nasty food to obsess about.
PS. have you seen how pigs are raised? do you care? do you know what compassion is? kthxbai.
chicken fried bacon at the Twilight Exit.
Wooly Pigs are nice to theirs, treacle.
Well, I don't know about you yuppie, metrosexual pond scum, but I've been raising hogs for the better part of 40 years now. Kill 'em and butcher 'em myself too. Good eatin', and the best and freshest bacon you'll ever have. If you city pukes ever want a good meal, come on by. I'll make you work for your supper, though.
If you're vegetarian (or kosher, or merely agree that everything should taste like bacon), grab Bacon Salt. http://baconsalt.com/
It's sitting on my kitchen counter right now.
And yet again, sadly ignored, is Issaquah's 12th Ave Cafe, home of the Montana Hash, which makes me cry with happiness when I eat it. A small will yield breakfast and lunch, and it reheats great.
There are a few downsides to the 12th Ave: no hash browns, no liquor, and it's in Issaquah. But the Montana Hash is totally worth it.
Roxy's Deli in Fremont ... my friend from Brooklyn said it's the only place in town that comes close to a NY deli. (Come early, though, or all of the choice bagels will be sold out.) There have plenty of hardy, inexpensive breakfast foods and sandwiches for the non-kosher among us, too.
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