A New Direction

I like doing this blogging thing, but sometimes I don't feel that my stories or picture essays are really all that useful to people. It feels like a lot of navel gazing. The feeling that this is kind of worthless keeps me from posting.

The combination of these two things, lack of relevance and lack of posting has gotten me to rethink what this blog should be all about. As a result, I am going to focus this blog on something that is useful and something I do everyday, lunch.

From here on, hopefully at least four times a week I will post a review of the place I got lunch. See I work in DC and for now, I eat my lunch out just about everyday. Since I work "on location" I tend to eat in lots of different places. My goal is to review at least what I eat in those places here.

So without further ado, here is my first review.

Sunrise Cafe 1102 17th Street Northwest,
Breakfast

I guess I am off to a bad start here because this is a breakfast review, not a lunch, and I made a poor choice of food here, even though I knew I was going to review it. I had two breakfast sandwiches. One bacon egg and cheese, and one sausage egg and cheese, both on wheat toast, you know cause its healthy.

First the Sunrise Cafe itself is one of about a half dozen that dot NW business district. I assume they are somehow all affiliated by the Korean Deli and Carryout Concern. This one is much smaller then most, and looks dingier then most. There are window seats for about 5, but if the place got crowded you might get a laptop bag or elbow to the head if you sat there long. There is cafe seating, but its pretty goddamn cold out so that was not set up.

Interestingly I learned that outside the place next to the trash can there is an exhaust vent for the oven hoods. This is a good place to stand and wait for your food, smoke and be warm. I witnessed a passer by putting his knowledge of the warm spot to use, and thereby blocking my view. It is really weird to have someone stand so close to you but so far away divided by the glass while you eat.

My sandwiches were tastey and hot. Plenty of cheese, and real fried egg. The sausage patty was a bit greasy, but not overly so, and it filled the entire slice of bread, so there was meat in every bite. The bacon was plentiful too, and crispy, though I suspect cooked en mass at some point probably today, since it was Monday, but no way of telling really. Honestly its bacon so it hardly goes bad anyway. Crisp and lots thats what you want on your bacon sandwich.

There were two downsides. One the wheat bread was not toasted. I can deal with because sometimes the toasting really dries out the meal, especially when no butter is added to the bread. I'm totally a health nut, can't you tell.

The second problem was a bit more unforgivable. I was grossly overcharged for my food. Not uncommon in my DC eating experience. Something about tourists and govt. workers and tourist govt. workers just begs suckering to these delis. I didn't realize the error until after I had left when a co worker asked me how much my meal was and if I got the 2 sandwich deal of 2.50 per. I did not. I got the 5 dollar per deal, booooooo.

As a whole I think the food was pretty good. I did not ask for wheat toast specifically, although I don't think you really should. I did not like the getting ripped off bit, I advise you to mentally add your total up at the register and double check the cashier if you go.

Umm I give it 3 eggs for quality but minus one and half for jacking me. Don't fuck with my money, yo.