Woke up before dawn this morning to meet Jenn for breakfast at Brenda's French Soul Food in San Francisco. (This is one of the spots on my to-eat list for 2010.)
I know crawling out of bed at this hour to go to a restaurant sounds completely insane, but Brenda's is the size of a walk-in closet and has a cult-like following, so the only way to avoid a wait is to get there by 8 a.m., which is when the restaurant opens on the weekend. If you hit the snooze button and arrive at 8:30, there's a very good chance you'll end up waiting at least 45 minutes. I showed up at 7:55, and there were already two other people in line, and three people arrived about two minutes after I did. By the time the restaurant opened, there was a big crowd outside.
Our breakfast was definitely worth waking up for: We started by splitting the beignet flight, which included one each of the plain beignet, the Granny Smith Apple beignet (this was like apple pie), the molten Ghirardelli chocolate-filled beignet and the crawfish beignet with cayenne scallions and cheddar. Each one was completely delicious, but my favorite was definitely the crawfish -- it was really interesting because the dough was slightly sweet, the crawfish was savory and the whole thing had a spicy kick to it. Good stuff. Next I ordered from the specials board -- got Eggs Benedict with a Creole hollandaise (that had mustard seeds in it) and fried catfish over a buttermilk biscuit with a side of grits. So out-of-control amazing. Jenn got the shrimp and cheddar grits, which she said was great, too.
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