Breakfast at Mother's

Yesterday, J & I had breakfast at my favorite place in the whole wide world - Mother's Bistro in Portland. These photos are from their website, and they really don't do the place justice. You need to see it in person - it's pretty awesome. If you're in the Pacific Northwest and are searching for a new place to try, I'm telling you, it's the greatest breakfast (and lunch) you'll ever have. The. Greatest.

Every time I go (which isn't often enough), I'm always tempted to try and convince the waiter to let me do a sampler platter - you know, order every single thing on the menu in tiny portions. Then I could try everything! Unfortunately my breakfast date always stops me before I can follow through with this brilliant plan, but really, a sampler platter is a pretty genius idea if you ask me. Once you see the menu you'll understand. How can anyone be expected to pick only one thing?

You just can't. I sure didn't! After a long battle between the Omelet du Jour and pancakes (coconut and macadamia nut pancakes, to be exact), the omelet won. And so did a side of Eggs Benedict.

It was a good morning.