The Living Room Cafe

Over the weekend a companion and I were driving through Point Loma on the way to a favorite breakfast spot when we drove past this cute cafe transformed from a white Victorian home.  At nearly the same time we said we should turn around and promptly made a U-turn along Rosecrans Street.

It's nearly as cute on the inside as the white paned outside.  There is an abundance of richly colored green and red Victorian chairs with small wooden tables all about the place--literally a living room like its moniker. There is also an outside which was quite popular Saturday morning, as well an upstairs where several college students were typing away on the old fashioned furniture and art lined walls.

The menu was quite extensive, as it serves as both a cafe, a breakfast place, a lunch place, and a beer and hooka joint after dark.  Can I just say that I have a weak spot for places that write their menus in chalk?  Something about it just makes it a little more quaint.  Nothing's quaint about the price, however.  My egg/bacon meal and small hot chocolate and his Mexican egg breakfast with a small coffee set me back about $17, but for the vibe, it was well worth it.  It's hard to find a place that offer syrup choices like mango and apricot as well as the usual vanilla and mint.

Our dishes were served with a little basket containing hot sauce, ketchup packets, a tiny set of salt and pepper, and honey.  Normally I'm not a fan of crispy bacon but the four pieces were small strips, which was just the perfect amount.  My eggs?  Not so perfect.  I'm not entirely sure how it's possible to mess up scrambled eggs but mine were far too fluffy and devoid of flavor.  The sweet brown bread made up for it.  I'll take bread over hash browns any day.  And it was definitely pretty how my fruit included pineapple as well as an orange slice.  And let me tell you, their hot chocolate is the best hot chocolate I've had in a really really long time.  Must have been made with whole milk.

The food I'd give a B (I'll probably order my egg over easy next time), Hot chocolate A+, Decor A, and specially props to being two stories.  I've only been to a few upstairs/downstairs places and I have to give kudos to any restaurant where the servers will continually walk up two flights of stairs with hot food in tow.

Next time you're looking to have a coffee day with the girls or a love, this place is a nice place to leisure about with a sweet drink in hand.