I’ve been so busy on the Net for work that I haven’t had much time to focus on finding a new post.
But as my Irish (Italian, German and a pinch of French Huguenot) luck would have it, I’ve found a VFG correspondent in San Francisco, who told me about a super cool restaurant.
Here’s his review…with art!
The Virtual Farmgirl San Francisco bureau chief reports on his visit to Sears Fine Food:
Half a block off Union Square stands a mecca for lovers of breakfast – always the most important meal on the farm, virtual or otherwise.
Sears Fine Food has been in business since 1938, with the exception of 8 months in 2004, when the founding family shuttered the place before selling to a new owner. It’s always prided itself on buying local ingredients whenever possible. It’s a star in the pantheon of Road Food — “colorful places enjoyed by locals (and savvy travelers) for their character as well as their menu.”
Go for the breakfast, but go late – like around 12:30 or 1 – to avoid the omnipresent morning line of diners. Breakfast is served until 3 p.m., seven days a week.
Your humble Virtual Farmgirl correspondent can only speak to the quality of the house specialty – “World Famous” Swedish pancakes. The 18 paper-thin silver dollar-size flapjacks are studded with holes that almost poke through to the other side. They have a sweetness to them missing from most pancakes – perhaps because, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, they are made from a mix of buckwheat, soybean and rice flours. Delicious. There can be no finer pancake in the food-obsessed town. (It doesn’t hurt that they come with an enormous ramekin of butter.)
I had them with a side of bacon – because breakfast is not really breakfast without a pork product. The rasher was plenty porky, but I found the slices too thick for my citified tastes.
Were I to return, I might partake of the “Authentic Sourdough French Bread dipped in Our Own Special Recipe.” But I suspect I would be hard pressed to mute the siren call of those hot cakes.
Sears Fine Food
439 Powell Street, between Post and Sutter streets
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-986-0700
Open daily from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Breakfast served until 3 p.m.
Menus
Online store for pancake mix by mail
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