THE MINI GOURMET is my favorite place to have breakfast. I go there once a week, usually on Sundays. It's open 24 hours a day and it's wonderful after a fun night out. It's not fancy at all but the service and the food is great. I'm a regular and it's nice to come in and the staff greets me and asks how I'm doing.




What and where is your favorite eatery/greasy spoon/guilty pleasure restaurant?

Greasy spoon....The La Palma in Southwark on Southwark Bridge Road
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mdiver said:

You will have to take me there one day mate.

I kind of like that high concept hippie vegetarian breakfast place in Minneapolis, Stoopies or whatever it was called.




But I would say, Mimi's cafe is my favorite.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Oh deal my friend dealio its awesome, run by Italians and you can get everything from a full english to pasta of your choice....

Junior's

Once upon a time my friends and I ate almost every weekend at Sunny Side-Up. Best hangover breakfast in Mpls. It's maybe just a tiny notch above a greasy spoon, but sufficiently greasy all the same. They have the world's best french toast and their biscuits and gravy uses italian sausage and they throw poached eggs on top and a drizzle of hollandaise. They have scrambled eggs with cactus paddles and huevos rancheros and they have crazy "special" benedicts every week, sometimes with steak, once with lobster, they'll use a baguette instead of an english muffin and use fun flavored hollandaises and such. We'd get the "mafia" table and sit 10 or so of us around it and re-hash our previous night out.

We don't do it anymore, but I go there once or twice a year still and remember those crazy breakfasts.

It was actually a group of staff that worked there that left and opened The Independent (where we had dinner Friday night, Miguel).

Imago said:

Hahaha! I think you mean the Seward Cafe in Minny.

CarrieMpls said:

Oh yeah, we talked about that.

Lawd, you're making me hungry!!! French toast

Imago said:

The Seward. And it's so NOT high concept. It's practically no concept.

DanceWme said:

I wish I had made it to Brooklyn when I was in New York back in the day. One day....one day.

CarrieMpls said:

I swear, if a Mary Kay saleslady walked out in that courtyard, the entire place would have cleared post haste. That's pretty high concept to me!

Imago said:

You were just too busy checkin' out the hairy armpitted vixens.

Imago said:

I thought we were going to get kicked out, with all your talk of bacon.

CarrieMpls said:

Oh my God. Did you notice the girl that looked like Joss Stone? She was gorgeous...and yeah, I could braid her armpit hair.

Not so hungry anymore.....

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Well, it was just my testosterone kicking in from having attended granolapalooza.

CarrieMpls said:

I can only imagine tangled birds nest their vaginas would be.





lawd, I'm hungry now. Need to go to lunch.

What's a "greasy spoon"? Just a seedy restaurant?

Seeing that it was you that started the thread I figured it might be some kind of advanced sexual position. Spooning...with grease?

Dierk's Parkside Cafe.

It's on the main strip in Santa Rosa, right next to three tattoo parlors. Their chorizo and eggs are so good that you want to shoot yourself in the goddamned head. Two other favorites:

Country Benedict – a warm crispy baguette covered with scrambled eggs, bacon, mushrooms, spinach, oven-dried tomatoes, hash browns and Hollandaise sauce
Sonoma Duck Confit – with potato hash, scrambled eggs, toast, and warm apples

Their house coffee is INCREDIBLE.

retina said:

A cafe with simple, greasy comfort food. It usually refers to a place that serves breakfasts, primarily. Best after a long night of drinking, etc.

It's this mexican restaurant that is early 70s architecture all the way and says "Mexican and American food" out front. Can't even remember the name of it lol ...it's run by a family and everyone in there is very laid back and friendly. They have one small menu printed on one side, and they have THE best omelettes and burritos...

This is my favorite place. It's back home in Scottsbluff Nebraska. It's the best drive in around...like the ones from the 50's and 60's. Has some of the best burgers, fries, fried mushrooms...and cinnamon cokes! Everytime I go back home, I have to go visit this place...yummy!

Yum.

Chico's Antojitos has some great Mexican food, I go there all the time for the shrip cocktails

retina said:

I'd love to.....I mean.....


Yeah, it's basically a restaurant that may look a little run down but the food is great. Don't get me wrong this place is clean and all.

MoniGram said:

Fried mushrooms

Mmmmmm.

Okay!!

So who wants to go on a Greasy Spoon tour of the U.S.?

Okay!!

So who wants to go on a Greasy Spoon tour of the U.S.? You have all given me a great list of places to eat.
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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

They are the best..haven't found better!

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

That would be so much fun! Like this guy does from the Food Network...




Here is another great diner..it's in Colorado Springs, Colorado, call Kings Chef...took this pic with the owner in front after we had one of the best breakfasts ever!!!