There’s something about rolling back a boulder to find Jesus
has left the building and Easter brunch that just go so well together. On Easter Sunday, Mike and I decided to
try a new place for brunch. I also
added a new breakfast companion into the mix, Ingela Marie Johnson Smith Volvo from
Pennsylvania. The destination? The Firefly Café. I had never been here before, neither
had Ingela and Mike hadn’t eaten here in years. Game on.
Firefly Cafe |
We arrived promptly at 9 a.m. and got a sweet table
outside. The coffee was good, the
server was perky and prompt and the mood was set for a great meal. I will say that in anticipation of a
busy Easter rush, perhaps we caught the chefs on a bad morning. We were the first people there and
maybe the kitchen hadn’t found their mojo yet.
Overall, the meal was mediocre. The worst part about mediocre is when mediocre is
expensive. I think breakfast for
the three of us was close to $60. I
had a custom omelette with bacon, Monterey Jack cheese and tomatoes, I added a
$2 biscuit that was not homemade and the meal came with hash browns. The hash browns were stringy and greasy
and the consistency was not great.
Ingela had a classic breakfast of two eggs over easy, sausage, hash
browns that she didn’t finish, and a biscuit. Mike’s meal was the most visually impressive and for him to
not finish a $14 breakfast, you know it has to be bad.
My omelette |
Here are the descriptions for our various entrees:
Me: "My Way" Omellette (sic)
An Omelet filled your way;
Choose from: Cheddar cheese, Monterey Jack cheese, tomatoes,
mushrooms, spinach, red onions, green onions, sweet peppers, ham, bacon and
sausage.
Ingela: The Usual
Two eggs your way, apple wood smoked bacon or sausage links,
hash browns or grits and a buttermilk biscuit.
Ingela's 'The Usual' |
Mike: Habersham Hashbrowns
Sauteed peppers and onions in the hash, 2 eggs, jack cheese,
adobe sour cream and scallions. Add ham or sausage crumbles.
Mike’s sounds the best and from the photo, it looks the best,
but he pushed it away. I think it
honestly has a lot to do with the hash browns. Given they make up 1/3 of a typical breakfast plate, if they
are bad, the odds are not ever in their favor.
Mike's Habersham Hash Browns |
As Mike and I were discussing our disappointment later that afternoon, Ingela texted to say: “My official Firefly Café review: two
thumbs sideways.”
And she is right.
I hate to knock a small business doing it’s best to keep the doors open
against the megalochains of Savannah, but it’s the South. You can’t serve mediocre breakfast and
charge $2 for a frozen Pillsbury biscuit.
It’s just not very Christian.
Sigh. Yes, and this is precisely why my parents want to have my graduation dinner at Firefly Cafe. They like it because its somewhat bland and mediocre. Never mind that I'm the one graduating..
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