Had a meeting early in Medina. We are hungry and there’s a little
café on the square. Once we distinguished the café from the other
breakfast place right next door we stepped into a fairly well kept
dining room framed with local art and were served by a very nice
young lady. She could probably use some training to save her a great
many steps (if the place ever filled up there’s no way they would
function) but she was hospitable and in constant motion.
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Things were simple, blueberry cornmeal cake (menu says cakes but it was cake) with breakfast meat (house sausage) and home fries. And their breakfast burrito, with scrambled eggs, house chorizo, pepper jack, tomato, roasted red pepper, caramelized onion, green chilies, flour tortilla, sour cream, house salsa, and the same home fries.
The cornmeal cake was predictably dry but got some help from the
syrup. The berries were fine but there was a flash of bitterness,
maybe a bit much on the chemical leavening, but nothing terrible.
The home fries were pretty standard cubes with just browned edges
still in need of a little seasoning. The free-form, house-made
sausage was pork on pork without much to get in the way of the juicy
hogitude. Typically, I would look for sage or some garlic, or
paprika, or whatevs, but I didn’t really miss it here, the grind
stood well on its own.
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Fancy Dancy Hot Chocolate Was Popular At Our Table |
Didn't Meet The Promise |
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Taters Were "Run Of The Mill" |
But Simple Porky Patty Stands Out |
The chorizo in the breakfast burrito was similar, simple and
straightforward, but here I wanted more of a punch from the sausage
to push through the load of tortilla inhabitants. Not a bad place to
grab a bite if you’re in the square, but nothing warranting the trip
alone. Maybe we'll check out the place next door.
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South Of Border Breakfast |
Needed More South Of Border Punch In Chorizo |
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What's Worst |
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C- | C | C | B | D | C- | ||
Sausage | Dry Cake |