I love breakfast!  And, I love, love, love going out for breakfast!  One of my Besties (best friends) came in to town to visit her family for the weekend and was able to ‘escape’ long enough to meet us for breakfast. Yea! She and I used to work together, with Mr. E, and so when we all get together it is like one big reunion! 

We met at this breakfast place called Crackers & Co. Café.  I’d never been there before or even heard about the place.  I HAVE BEEN MISSING OUT!!  I, of course, did some research prior to going and every site I went to had great things to say – I couldn’t agree more!  Plus, the menu had lots of different omelets and skillets to choose from. 

One of the ways I measure a great breakfast joint is by their coffee because, really, eggs, pancakes, waffles… they’re pretty much the same at any diner.  Now if you’re going somewhere fancy or upscale, that’s a different story… but this was just a diner/café type place.

Their coffee was perfect diner coffee right down to the carafe they set on the table after bringing out the heavy, thick rimmed mugs.  Bonus: they had vanilla and hazelnut creamers – yes I did have a little (or as Mr. E said “OMG that’s a lot of creamer”) hazelnut creamer in my coffee. 🙂

It’s so hard for me to make a decision when it comes to breakfast because if I could have my way, I’d have a couple bites of pancake or waffle (I love maple syrup), a biscuit smothered in sausage gravy (not a bite, but the whole thing), a few bites of an egg thing, a couple slices of bacon and a bite or two of sourdough toast with orange marmalade. (Yes, this is what goes through my head every time I go out to breakfast LOL!  Yes, I know I’m a freak LOL).  So of course I try and sway Mr. E to something that contains one or two of these items so that I can steal bites.  How do I do this?  Well, I start before we even leave the house, talking about what I hope they have.  (Of course, I already know what they have because I’ve read the menu online. He he he).  Then when we get there I start reading the menu out loud, pointing out specific items of course. LOL. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.  This was one of those times it didn’t work.  He zeroed in on the Huevos Rancheros with the carnitas and salsa.  I knew by the intense look in his eye, that no other item on the menu stood a chance.  Oh well.

I ended up ordering a skillet (after much internal debate and conflict) …

and my Bestie ordered beautiful looking eggs Floretine.

We were all super pleased!  By the way, I did get my maple syrup because I subbed a pancake for the toast (they didn’t have orange marmalade…). 

So, next time we go I’ll just have to feed him Mexican food the day before so that my power of persuasion can overcome the allure of Huevos Rancheros. 🙂