Happy Gillis<\/a> for a little breakfast.\u00a0 You would think the address would be on that website someplace, but I couldn’t find it.\u00a0 I think it was somewhere around 3rd street on the north edge of downtown.\u00a0 The menu was definitely not what I expected when I walked in the place.\u00a0 It had a definite low-rent-diner feel to it;\u00a0 Mismatched chairs & tables, seat yourself, get your own drinks, etc.\u00a0 The menu for the day was scribbled on a chalkboard behind the counter, and I was a bit surprised to see that all the plates started at eight bucks.\u00a0 I decided on the juevos con frijoles, on the assumption that you can never go wrong with eggs and beans.\u00a0 It definitely had the eight buck presentation going on;\u00a0 Two corn tortillas, topped with red beans and a poached egg, garnished with shredded cabbage and a sliced radishes.\u00a0 Probably the tastiest breakfast I can remember in recent history, although I must say I could have eaten at least three more servings of the same.\u00a0 Probably a “one and done” place for us, if I had to guess.\u00a0 For afternoon-slash-evening entertainment, I headed down to the Brooksider, of all places.\u00a0 I enjoy a good early happy hour when the opportunity presents itself, so having the day off I showed up about 3 o’clock.\u00a0 Martin & Brice showed up at some point, and I hung out with them until it started getting a little crowded with the Halloween nuts so we relocated to The Well.\u00a0 That place definitely isn’t the spot to get away from a crowd, so we were only there about 30 minutes and called it a night.<\/p>\nHalloween was for all purposes a non-event.\u00a0 Not for a lack of opportunity, we just never got going.\u00a0 We used to really enjoy Halloween too…\u00a0 I guess we got old or something.\u00a0 We started off strong with breakfast at Amigos down off Steele road in the Rosedale area.\u00a0 I thought they had a website but I can’t find one at the moment.\u00a0 This place was a recommendation from our friend Anne, which instantly made it a must-visit.\u00a0 Plus, it’s right across the street from Dressler’s, one of the best pet supply places around, and we needed some stuff for Gabe anyway.\u00a0 Amigos was right up our alley;\u00a0 The breakfast prices ranged from $3 to $5, depending on if you wanted a huge plate or obscenely gigantic.\u00a0 I went with the pork chile, which came with tortillas, two fried eggs, beans and rice.\u00a0 Donette had chorizo and eggs, with beans, potatoes, and tortillas.\u00a0 Was the food as good as Happy Gillis?\u00a0 Well, no, but we were stuffed and got out for less than 1\/2 the price.\u00a0 Trade-offs I guess.\u00a0 For the evening, we didn’t do anything at all.\u00a0 We had a grand total of four kids come by very early in the evening, and that was it.\u00a0 (Maybe because we had all the lights out, I’m not sure.)\u00a0 Anyway, the one group that did come by gave us some entertainment;\u00a0 They rang the bell about 5:00 or so, and Gabe went into his typical seething rage.\u00a0 Donette rushed downstairs to find him snarling and barking at the storm door, hair on end and the whole nine yards, with a little two-year old Cinderella on the other side of the glass chanting “Hi puppy, hi puppy!!!”\u00a0 Our neighbor who was taking her around (and knows that Gabe falls in the “all bark” category) said it was extra-funny because she was absolutely terrified of his clown costume.\u00a0 Crazy kids.<\/p>\n
Sunday was similarly boring.\u00a0 I did several hours of yard work, mostly in an attempt at enjoying the rather rare weather.\u00a0 Took Gabe for a nice long walk, watched a little football…\u00a0 Yeah that’s about it.\u00a0 Oh, breakfast…\u00a0 I nearly forgot that was my theme of the day.\u00a0 For breakfast we headed down to Sharp’s at the rather unholy hour of 7:30;\u00a0 Bitten by the time change I guess.\u00a0 Having never been there at that time of morning, we weren’t really sure on their hours.\u00a0 As it turns out they don’t open until 8:00.\u00a0 Rather than waste the gas traveling the 3\/4 mile back home, we got a paper and waited it out.\u00a0 Sharps doesn’t really merit another review…\u00a0 I think I’ve covered that place enough.\u00a0 Solid food, decent prices;\u00a0 Done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As you can probably guess from the title, I’ve got a real barn-burner of excitement whipped up for today.\u00a0 Ohhhh yeah.\u00a0 My prediction of “blowing it out” last weekend didn’t exactly come to fruition.\u00a0 I guess it never does when you plan it that way.\u00a0 Honestly, a re-cap of the breakfast places we hit is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}