Brunch: La Note

This morning I walked to Shattuck with my friend for brunch. I have been to this cute little French Provençal restaurant at least 3 or 4 other times for brunch. I have almost always ordered the Cote Nord (scrambled eggs with cream cheese (I substitute goat cheese) over levain toast, homefries and tomatoes. It's delicious and does everything taste and texture wise that I want breakfast to do. I also like to take a spoonful of the raspberry jam on the table. I don't double dip! I wanted to try something else this time though. I opted for the cinnamon brioche french toast. Thick and oh so good. A faint orange taste since it's dipped in orange water.

I still prefer the stuffed french toast special at Venus that is just a block down. That one, I believe, is challah bread that is stuffed with sweetened mascarpone cheese. I believe there's a walnut and apple mixture on top. But anyways, the french toast at La Note was tasty, but as always I feel with pancakes and french toast dishes, the salty, greasy component is missing, and I wasn't about to order a side of homefries.

The minus was that we had to wait over an hour and a half to get a table at this tiny place. We got there at 11:30 am and probably didn't get seated until 1 pm. I've never waited that long there. Usually an hour tops. But there was a new hostess, and she was very obviously only seating people that had the exact number of people as the number at the tables that opened up. That didn't make me happy to see people with one more person in their group getting seated before us when they signed their name in an hour after we did.

I love taking friends from out of town here. It's cute and charming, and the food is delicious and simple, everything you want in a breakfast/brunch. I just have to remind myself to come in at 9 am next time.

There's a Law and Order SVU marathon on and I'm watching it! It'll be studying for the rest of the day, munching on blue corn tortilla chips and guacamole and roasted tomato salsa. Dessert Party this Friday. I'm making a pineapple upside down cake.