Firefly Cafe: "Two thumbs sideways"

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.