The Blue Moon Café

    Fells Point is an area of Baltimore known for its bars. There are a lot of bars; some amazing bars. Anytime you have bars clustered together you’re bound to find the most amazing bar food, which usually includes wings, pizza, or burgers. The Blue Moon Café on the other hand serves breakfast.

    Chris and I sought of the café after they were featured on The Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. It’s a small building right off of the main bar street. We sat at a cute little table in front of an old fireplace. The whole place is charming, like an old, warn in pair of jeans that you could probably update but love too much.

    We ordered the Captain Crunch French Toast and the Mexican Scramble. The Captain Crunch French Toast is their specialty. The cereal is crushed up and the toast is covered in it before it is cooked. It caramelizes and sweetens the outside while retaining the crunch, mmmm. It is served with fresh fruit. The Mexican scramble is eggs, chorizo, cheese, peppers, and spice served scrambled with hash 

browns and a biscuit.The biscuit came out before anything else. It was gigantic, that is a half of my biscuit in the picture. It’s served with butter and strawberry jam. It was flaky and delicious, bordering on better than mom’s homemade. Chris even liked it :)

    The food came out in a hurry, the whole place was working very quickly. It was amazing. Chris stopped talking completely to shovel French toast into his mouth before his stomach could tell him he was full. The home-made 

whipped cream serves as the syrup as it melted on the hot French toast. The Mexican

 Scramble was perfectly flavored. It was spicy and savory. The textures worked so well together, I even scrambled in some of my has

h browns for more of a crunch.We were so full we couldn’t finish our big servings but o

ur bill wasn’t inflated at all. We stumbled out into the street in a food coma, similar to a beer coma.

Mrs. Rowe's

In 2005 Southern Living featured an article "Brake for Breakfast". They featured a restaurant called Mrs. Rowe's in Staunton, Virginia. Seeing as I am in Staunton I figured I should check it out.

It was a cute little place right off the main highway. I went with a party of 5 and we were seated quickly. Coffee was hot, and the menu was printed right on our paper place-mats which is something I'm not used to in FL but it had a southern charm.

I ordered the egg sandwich with fried apples. It was delicious and southern and just as roadside breakfast should be, in my opinion. The coffee was hot and the waitress was sweet. So if you're ever in Staunton and your craving a ham, egg, ad cheese sandwhich on wheat; check out Mrs. Rowes.

Brian's

I have moved to the antique row of Orlando which brings many exciting things, but most especially; new restaurants!

Saturday morning Chris and I went to Brian's, a tiny looking place right on the corner of Orange & Virginia. The plaid red curtains beckoned to me just a tiny walk from my front door.

We came in and the lady was friendly in a genuine way, not just that "i'm forced to be nice to you" attitude. Plus the place was way bigger than either of us thought. I liked not having to fight for a table.

We ordered coffee. Now that simple sentence may imply a simple act but I assure you that for us to be awake and out in public before 9am on a saturday that coffee needs to be delicious. Not burnt, too strong, too weak, or otherwise untasty. It was perfect. They even had a pitcher of cream of the table so when chris added his gallon (probably!) of cream we didn't have a mountain from those plastic buckets.

Chris ordered the strawberry stuffed french toast & I had the breakfast burrito. 1st up though was the sweet buns. Now, I am not a donut, danish, or sweet morning food kind of person. As you can see on the menu though these were supposedly good. Plus once she placed them on the table the intense cinnamon smell sucked me in. They were amazing, I mean, Amazing.

The amazing carried through the whole meal. Chris' bacon was as good as grandma's. My burrito was yummy. Nothing gourmet or fancy but good real cooking. What really stuck both of us was how friendly everyone in the entire place was. They all seemed genuinely concerned that we had a good breakfast. and we did!