THE SONOMA INDEX-TRIBUNE • FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2019 B7

Comfort is defined by what you grew up with – maybe Dad’s cinnamon toast, Mom’s scrambled
eggs and bacon, fluffy blueberry pancakes, peanut butter or avocado toast with a bacon topping.

Anyone for breakfast?

By KATHLEEN HILL 414 First St. E.934-8637.
INDEX-TRIBUNE FOOD & WINE EDITOR

B
reakfast is a favorite
meal for many, and Palms Grill
lots of people prefer Breakfast all day ranges
to eat breakfast at any and from southern biscuits
all times of the day. It’s and gravy with eggs and
a comforting meal, but
comfort is defined by what
Our guide to morning meals in Sonoma will keep you bacon, a Joe’s special, av-
ocado toast with zucchini,
you grew up with – maybe
Dad’s cinnamon toast,
from ‘scrambling’ at the last minute corn, tomatoes, poached
eggs and avocado; lin-
Mom’s scrambled eggs and guiça and eggs, steak and
bacon, fluffy blueberry eggs, chicken fried steak,
pancakes, peanut butter or mascarpone crepe blintzes,
avocado toast with a bacon power bowls, lemon ricotta
topping. pancakes, Belgian waffles,
While in recent years Texas French toast, oat-
Sonomans have mourned meal, combos, Monte Cris-
the loss of three of Sono- to sandwich, omelets, all
ma’s favorite breakfast served with hash browns
wake-up spots – Fremont or country potatoes. $7.95
Diner, Pearl’s and the to $18.95. 18999 Sonoma
Breakaway Café – we still Highway. 939-8100.
have plenty of choices.
Breakfast enticements
come from a full range of Picazo Café
restaurant styles, from The original by Salvador
tiny diners and sausage Picazo Chavez and family,
palaces to chain “diners” who took over an old
and elegant hotel break- shack and made it great.
fasts. Dad, Don Chava, makes
Here are some oppor- the pastries while the rest
tunities, listed alphabeti- of the family cooks up
cally. loads of scrambles and
omelets, egg and quinoa or
Acai power bowls, oat-
Black Bear Diner meal, pancakes, breakfast
Chain of 124 restau- sandwiches and bagels.
rants founded in Mt. French toast, bagels, and
Shasta, California. Serves chilaquiles. Kids menu. $6
a variety of egg combos, to $12. 19100 Arnold Drive.
omelets and scrambles, 931-4377.
pancakes, waffles and
French toast, Benedicts,
and Mexican specialties Santé at Fairmont
such as chorizo scramble, Sonoma Mission Inn
breakfast burritos and PHOTOS BY ROBBI PENGELLY/INDEX-TRIBUNE This previously Miche-
huevos rancheros. Huge Breakfast at the Sunflower Caffe starts your day off in a Huckleberry waffle kind of way. lin-starred restaurant
portions of carbs such as breakfast might include
potatoes and biscuits, with lemon cottage cheese pan-
all calories listed on menu. cakes, chicken and waffles,
$8.49 to $11.49. 203 W. Napa eggs and meat, scrambles,
St.. 935-6800. omelets, Dungeness crab
Benedict, a full English
breakfast, chilaquiles,
Carneros Bistro & Wine Anson Mills grits, or duck
Bar at the Lodge at confit hash. $10 to $25. 100
Boyes Blvd. 938-9000.
Sonoma
Sunday breakfast
includes oatmeal with Sunflower Caffe
berries or granola, smoked Most sunny days the
salmon and bagel, French line to order at the counter
brioche toast, Hobbs bacon of this Plaza staple snakes
with Petaluma eggs or out the door onto the side-
Caggiano sausage or ham, walk. A dozen breakfast/
chilaquiles, or kale and brunch options include
quinoa breakfast bowl. Eggs Benedict is a staple on many Valley breakfast menus. At right, chicken fried steak and eggs will get you the calories avocado toast, a burrito
$8 to $18. 1325 Broadway. you need, and then some, to start your day off with a bang. mojado and huckleber-
931-3405. ry waffles, and they are
local products. $6.95 to Garden Court Café syrup. $9.95 to $15.95. 13647 only. 110 W. Spain St. 938- served until they close at
$13.95. 239 Boyes, Blvd. All egg dishes are avail- Arnold Drive. 935-1565. 3634. 3 p.m. $9.50 to $15. 42 First
Creekside Café 996-8062. able with two or three eggs St. W. 996-6645.
Creekside is next to a and are served with house
motel and was the original made breads toasted and Girl & the Fig Hare & Hatter Sausage
site of the old Breakaway El Dorado Kitchen potatoes or grits. Banana Continental breakfasts; Emporium Schellville Grill
Café. Here you can find Fruit smoothies, chur- bread extra but well worth gluten-free crumb cake Breakfast all day starts TV chef Guy Fieri put
everything at some of ros, oatmeal, bagels and it to take home. Meat or pancakes; croissant with a huge protein platter Schellville Grill on the map
the lowest prices in the lox, brioche French toast, choices include bacon, sandwiches, egg-white of sausage, bacon, creamy in his “Diners, Drive-ins, &
Valley. Two eggs with eggs with Hobbs bacon or sausage, maple ham steak, omelet of the day, quiche scrambled eggs and salad, Dives” food Network show.
ham, smoked bacon or sausage and fried potatoes; homemade hot Italian sau- Lorraine, eggs Benedict, or a breakfast burrito, Following a few attempts at
link sausages, pork chop buttermilk waffles, eggs sage, turkey-apple sausage house made ham hash, croissants and bagels, with selling the joint, Matthew
and eggs, lots of scram- Benedict; breakfast bur- or turkey chorizo. Veggie smoked salmon tartine, or without salmon and Nagan is back more or less
bles and omelets, chicken rito, chilaquiles, huevos everything available, huge and possibly the best meats. Expresso drinks at full steam serving bacon
fried steak with gravy and rancheros, mole hash with combos and Benedicts. fluffy scrambled eggs with and draft beer. Watch for and eggs, tri-tip brisket and
eggs, huevos con chorizo corn tortillas. $7.50 to $15. Belgian waffles, blueber- grilled ham or bacon, po- them to open a breakfast eggs, vegetarian frittata,
or rancheros, buttermilk Full bar. 405 First St. W. ry or banana pancakes, tatoes, and grilled bread. spot on Sonoma Plaza. In Hub Cap pancakes, and
hotcakes or sourdough 996-3030. French toast, both real ma- Great coffee, full bar. $5 El Paseo courtyard with creative specials. 22900
French toast, all using ple syrup and low calorie to $18. Saturday morning outdoor fountain. $3 to $12. Broadway. 996-5151.

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