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search for a breakfast spot continues

December 14th, 2008 at 02:52 am

Saving log - $40 Drp
Spending log - $13 breakfast + $110 DH Christmas gifts

R.I.P Crown Hill Bistro, nee Library Cafe. We went and found a U-Haul sprawled along the parking strip, and talked to the owner. Done in by the recession, drop off of business and two mistakes in the Entertainment coupon book. (They were in as the Library Cafe, and they shouldn't have been in at all.). Entertainment coupons can really kill a business - we need our spendthrifts.

So the

Text is search for a Seattle breakfast spot and Link is http://baselle.savingadvice.com/2007/10/13/saturday-seattle-mystery_31124/
search for a Seattle breakfast spot continues anew. After the Denny's, then this, DH and I decidedly feel jinxed. Anybody have a Seattle spot you hate and you want gone? Let us know.

This morning we went to a new spot, Rooster's Breakfast Club. There was a bit of on-street parking, and that was great. The place was the right kind of jumping - a consistent 3/4 full, so no lines but no desperation. Food was very good and very ample - I split the meal in half. Service was speedy and professional. I could adopt this place. Smile But ...

Along the side of the building was one of those gigantic posters put up by the City of Seattle - environmental review of a construction project. The building that the new breakfast spot was housed in will be torn down for something nefarious. But right now its only the environmental review.

In other words, the breakfast place jinx continues. However, unless the sign went up yesterday, the particulars of this jinx has already happened before we showed for our meal. Is it wrong of me, now that the recession hit my Saturday morning, to hope against hope of a recession serious enough that the RE developer goes bust? Can we equate the economic niche of a breakfast place to an environmental niche?

N.B.: As of 1/3/09, there is a
Text is petition and Link is http://www.phinneywood.com/2009/01/01/61s-and-greenwood-development-petition/
petition going around.

7 Responses to “search for a breakfast spot continues”

  1. scfr Says:
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    I only went once, and it's definitely more $$$ than Denny's, but I still remember having some really divine French Toast at Macrina Bakery & Cafe.

  2. PauletteGoddard Says:
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    Blue Mountain Cafe I like. It's near you on NW 85th so don't go there. I also like Kona Kitchen which is by NE 85th. May try Rooster's with my debt support club soon.

    I really did not like the Crown Hill Bistro. Maybe it was the idiotic decimal points before cents, or the blechy music or the smell of the coffee, but I have rarely felt such black antipathy for a restaurant. I felt ripped off.

  3. Amber Says:
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    Sorry to hear about your troubles...it'll end soon Smile

  4. my english castle Says:
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    A good breakfast place is a joy forever (except in your case!) My test is always the breakfast potatoes. Just hash browns? American fries? Are they home made?
    Almost anybody can do eggs and pancakes, but potatoes?

  5. baselle Says:
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    @paulette - I'm sorry you had a poor experience. Since they did go out of business, I'm guessing that your experience was more the norm than mine. I agree about the music. Usually DH and I were buried deep in our Saturday papers...blocking the black antipathy.

    I promise not to hit the Blue Mountain Cafe. Is that the one that has a rock face/ ton of stairs at its front? I haven't mastered the rock face on REI yet, maybe after that I'll brave it. Smile Let me know what you think of Roosters - it could be that our tastes are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Not waiting in line makes me happy.

  6. A Person Says:
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    I wonder if Paulette meant the Wild Mountain Cafe on 85th? Anyway, I like that one, so avoid it. Smile

    I'm torn about the Library Cafe (never got used to the new name) going out of business. We used to go every week but lost interest shortly after the new owners took over. He was overly familiar in a kind of annoying way, where she probably shouldn't have been in the business--very grumpy. I feel bad saying that, but it was the biggest reason our attendance dropped off.

    The place also just started to seem dirty to me. I think it needs to be emptied out, bleached to high heaven, and then reopened with new owners, a new menu, and without all the dusty books (I loved the way they looked, but got grossed out whenever someone would take one down and start flipping through it--dust particles flew everywhere).

  7. baselle Says:
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    I actually bought one of the books about six months ago. _The Nature of the Chemical Bond_ by Linus Pauling. 1960 edition, when ol' LP was at the height of his powers. 10$ but classic, classic, classic. I did dust the book outside, though.

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