74 Lippincott St.


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(3 out of 5)

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(2 out of 5)

(2 out of 5)

Review by: MrBreakfast.com Visitor on 3/5/2006

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I woke up this morning to my hungover and "starving" boyfriend, who, managed to stumble upon this website. He decided that Aunties and Uncles looked like a splendid choice because it was rated 5 eggs, and was close to home.

I know how picky he can be. (We usually go to the same, cheap, predictable place, but we don't live in that area anymore). So I made a point of mentioning that he wasn't going to like it, just for the record.

We get there, after driving past it because we blinked and missed it the first time, and are "welcomed" with stares of confusion and annoyance because we haven't figured out the concept of this wannabe bohemian starving artist dive (house), in a yuppie neighborhood yet. Oh, I'm sorry the three tables in here all have people at them. The guy there tells us to go sit upstairs.

Fantastic, could these stairs be more narrow and steep please?! Enter the upstairs "dining lounge," previously Auntie and/or Uncle's bedroom of glorious desire.

We make our way, awkwardly, over to a corner table in this literally 8'X 12' room that had a random table of like 8 people taking up the whole middle of the room. I squeeze into a broken booth style chair, and proceed to stare ahead at the wall across the table... three quarters of a foot in front of me.

Buddy comes over and orders our coffee, fine. After scanning over the ONE postcard sized menu we got to share because they ran out, I sarcastically asked my boyfriend which of the fine selections he would be partaking in. I knew there was nothing on their menu that he would want. All he wanted from a breakfast place is bacon and eggs over easy, home fries, toast, possibly the odd pancake and/or sausage. The closest thing to that was eggs (scrambled only), with three of the following: toast, bacon, potatoes, peameal, bagel, and some other nonsense. I only remember those because we both got peameal, toast, and potatoes... and eggs (scrambled only).

What a grand experience thus far. I must admit, we did get our food pretty quick for how "busy" it was. Much to my enjoyment, potatoes actually means potato salad, (cold, marinated, covered in onion varietals, and enough dill to repopulate the planet, two-fold.

Eggs, (scrambled only): bland.

Peameal: dry and doggish.

Olives: yes, olives!

Toast: I decided that no one could possible ruin toast. It looked fine, maybe even homemade, but what's up with unsalted butter? Who eats unsalted butter? That's right, yuppies eat unsalted butter.

A quick scan of the room if you will.

8 people at large table in middle of room: Loud, obnoxious, republican, talking about "March of the Penguins." How do you have time to have Sunday morning salad breakfast when you should be selling when it's high, buying when it's low?

There is a couple behind us, and you can tell they just frickin' love this place.

Another couple dressed in expensive designer clothing made to look vintage, used, and outdated. They are only here because seems like a cool place to be.

If you've read this whole review, then you know what we felt like waiting for the bill: I just want to get thorough this. We can actually see our car through the window.... Ahhh finally, the bill. A tiny adding machine tape folded and dropped on the table. $21.28 eh? No breakfast for two should ever break the $12 mark... seriously.

We made our way back downstairs to a line up of people waiting for tables. I wished them all good luck as we headed back out into the real world.

Award Nomination: Hugest Dump

Review #6941Review by: MrBreakfast.com Visitor on 5/21/2003

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Very busy on the weekends, but worth the wait.

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