Sunday, August 31, 2008

Avalon Diner

An oldie but a goodie.  

I won't get in to the cultural (historical?) aspects of that place that make me slightly uncomfortable, but let me share this gem with you. I had just arrived back from Costa Rica, and I was excited to tell my parents how I had caught Barack's acceptance speech on satellite during a thunderstorm at a random bar in Santa Teresa.  Because satellite doesn't work in the rain, a lot of the stations weren't coming in so I ended up watching Barack's speech on BET.  I'm telling my dad this as we are being served our coffee, I say "BET! Isn't that crazy?" and he goes "what?" and I say "BET" and he says "what?" and I say "BET" and by then we all had our coffee and the waitress just walked away smiling.  Then he said "I thought you were saying BEC."

I had the vegetarian omelette with fruit and a biscuit.  Avalon has the best biscuits in town. (Breakfast Klub? Maybe...)  Fruit is always a little lame, but this bowl was ok.  It paled in comparison to what I was eating in CR.

My mom had huevos rancheros which she did NOT like.  Something about the cheese being bad.

David had migas, poorly reviewed.  Also a cheese issue.

My dad proudly discovered two menu items that were virtually indistinguishable.  He ended up with the Western Scrambler. 

Luigi got carbs.

2 comments:

Katie said...

What is a goodie about that place/review? The Avalon Drugstore closed and everyone was sad, but I'm not sure that's a reason to go to the dinner.

marguerite said...

BISCUITS!