Best Breakfast ~ East Bay Express 2001
Breakfast is an easy meal to get right. Right?
Coffee cake, huge pile of pancakes ... and who can’t make scrambled
eggs? A champion breakast place, then, has got its work cut out for
it. La Note starts out by doing everything your standard breakfast place
can do, but better. The coffee’s good, the lattes are better (they’re
served in a big bowl), and pancakes? You’d better believe it.
Purists can go for the Creme Fraiche pancakes, white and fluffy with
a drizzle of creme fraiche over the stack. Or try the oatmeal raspberry
pancakes, if you’re feeling frisky. Best of all are the lemon
gingerbread pancakes, moist and spicy and topped with pears and blueberries.
In addition to American classics, exceptional French Fare includes the
Tartine Mistral, a toasted baguette covered with goat cheese and roasted
peppers: a damn good concoction for anyone who can stomach savories
first thing in the morning.