The Original Pantry Cafe

If you haven't been at this historical landmark restaurant, you ought to go... preferably on a weekday for a late breakfast. That way you beat the traffic from where ever you are coming from. The Original Pantry Cafe is located at 877 S. Figueroa St. in Los Angeles.  It is still currently owned by former Mayor Richard Riordan. The famous cafe opened in 1924. There are a lot of very interesting trivia on how many pounds of bacon, potatoes, etc. they consume in a year. Visit their web page at: http://www.pantrycafe.com/

Deborah, Sandi and I decided to have a late breakfast there yesterday. We got there shortly before 11:00 a.m. just in time to order breakfast. Sandi has never been there before; Deborah and I raved about their wonderful sour dough bread.  Sandi ordered the bacon and eggs we were to split and I ordered the sour dough french toast. Deborah had the sausage and eggs. They all came with the potatoes which were delicious especially with some ketchup.  My two weird friends don't like ketchup on their potatoes. The bacon was very crispy and tasty.  We all enjoyed the sour dough with butter.  Of course I had to slather some marmalade on it; again Sandi and Deborah just ate theirs plain. (What can I say?)  The french toast was fluffy but it was nothing special. We couldn't taste the "sour" in the bread.  It was a good thing to divide the 6 pieces among the three of us.

FYI, if you ever go to the Pantry Cafe, make sure you have some cash as they do not accept credit cards or you just may end up washing dishes! Don't forget to take some fresh sour dough home.

Believe it or not (for those of you who know me; I'm sure you do believe) after our breakfast, we wanted to kill 2 birds with 1 stone so Deborah drove to Cafe Dulce at Little Tokyo so we could pick up some bacon donut holes. I got a bunch to freeze with the spirulina and tapioca rolls while Sandi got some green tea donuts and some of the rolls as well.

Yesterday was a semi-good day.