Breaker's Cafe

Address: 1126 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950

Not quite sure of hours, though it was open at 11:30am on Sunday (time that I went)

Table Spice: Tobasco - I asked the waitress and she quickly brought be Pepper Plant

Ingredients:
 Outside: Home fries, eggs, cheddar cheese, onions, sausage, bacon, diced tomatoes.

Price: $9.95

It's Sunday morning and my friend Max and I are on our way back from Big Sur, where we had met up with some friends the day before to go camping. We didn't arrive until around 8:30pm because we had gone to the second round games of The Dance (NCAA Tourney) in San Jose. Well after a not-very-good night of sleep, we got up early helped pack the stuff up and headed back to the Penninsula. Since I wasn't able to get a Breakfast Burrito the day before, I thought it would be a good time to go and find one. One thing that wasn;t on my side was that my Droid had died the night before, and so i couldn't use it to search for breakfast restaurants (this also meant that I wouldn't be able to take a picture of the Breakfast Burrito). So we veered towards Pacific Grove and started searching for places that might be able to quench my Breakfast Burrito hunger. We ended up finding a place called Breaker's Cafe, with signs in the windows exclaiming delicious breakfast! I'M IN.

We get in there smelling of cold fire smoke and trees and looking like a lumber jack and an out of place ghetto white kid and find a place to sit near the back. It's a smaller place, but smells good and has the feel of a hardworking diner. I immediately snatch up a menu and head towards the most likely position to find a Breakfast Burrito - low and behold, ANOTHER restaurant can't seem to understand that F**** Breakfast Burritos are incredible!!! If I'm not so tired at this point I would stand up and shout to the sky WHYYYYYYYYYYY?????? Instead, I sip my rather strong coffee (two cups got me incredibly light headed and shaky - the good stuff) and find a way to rig a Breakfast Burrito. I finally come across an item on the menu that will likely do the trick - the name of this dish is

BIG SCRAMBLED GOOEY MESS - Side of Tortillas(2)

Unfortunately, I do not have a picture to show you this scrambled mess, suffice to say that it is exactly as it says - and a lot of it. I took this gooey scramble and shoved as much as I could into the tortilla, drenched it in Pepper Plant, and chomped it down. What made this burrito really good was how everything was smashed together into one big messy scramble. While meant to be eaten alone, I feel like putting it into a tortilla is the way to go for this one. What I can't understand is how they couln't think of putting a Breakfast Burrito like this ON THE MENU?? I was close to asking the waitress, but again, too tired to care.

I was only able to eat just one of the Breakfast Burritos (two tortillas as sides) so I took home the second one and ate it for dinner. The amount of food that was provided created two giant Breakfast Burritos, so actually a good price for the amount of food. And it ended up being pretty decent, though nothing out of the ordinary. There is only so much one can say about a Breakfast Burrito unless the ingredients vary. But the fact that you have to take an alternative route to get to your Breakfast Burrito destination is unique in itself, and didn't disappoint. The service was fairly slow, but there was only (seemingly) one waitress this day and so I can't blame her for taking her sweet time. She was definitely fast with the coffee - maybe that's why I was tweaking a little bit with lots of coffee and nothing in my stomach.

Rating: ******* 7/10

Nice atmosphere , strong coffee, pretty good burrito. Nice.

Breakfast Club

Address: 1130 Fremont Blvd, Seaside, CA 93955

Hours: Every Day 6am-2pm

Table Spice: Pepper Plant

Ingredients:
  Outside: Home fries, sour cream, salsa, jalepenos, avacodo
  Inside: Scrambled eggs, sauteed onions, tomato, Ortega chiles, jack cheese, choice of meat.

Price: $9.25 + 1.25 for your choice of meat.

I had heard good things about the Breakfast Club from a couple colleagues of mine at work and so I decided to try it out. I had a couple of friends in town for the weekend and, knowing that they also enjoy breakfast burritos, decided to include them in my expedition. This joint was packed and busy, waitresses moving all over the place in an almost hectic fashion. We came in, sat down, and got to it. The name of this breakfast burrito is -

BREAKFAST BURRITO

Superb. This had everything and more, hardly necessary to douse it in sauce (though I can't help but spice it up a bit) - it had full fantastic flavors, it was enormous, and I was served in about 6 minutes. All of the waitresses were on top of their game, and it was really an overall enjoyable experience. I was shocked at the steep price - I feel like the meat should be included in the total price and not an add on - but it was expensive for a reason, and that reason is quality.

One thing that really stands out to me with this breakfast burrito is the uniqueness of it. Sure, you have your standard ingredients, but by mixing it up a bit - adding Ortega chiles, jack cheese, and cooking the home fries with some sort of special seasoning, it becomes something that really stands out. My friends all got the same thing as me and agreed that it was better than any they had had in a while. I will need to return to test consistency, but their coffee woke me up, their breakfast burrito made me full and I left with a smile on my face.

Rating: ******** 8/10

Lucky me, this place is right down the street from where I reside, I will definitely be back!!!

Tico's Breakfast and Lunch

Address:330 Reservation Rd, Ste C, Marina, CA 93933

Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 7am-3pm

Table Spice: Santa Barbara Pepper Sauce, Tobasco.

Ingredients:
  Outside - Potatoes, diced tomatoes, guacamole
  Inside - egg, sausage, tomato, cheese.
Price: $8.50

Alright, so let me preface this by saying that I fully expected  this restaurant to have some high quality breakfast burritos. I had heard from multiple sources that it had some fantastic breakfast items at reasonable prices. It is a smaller cafe, well kept with great service. The coffee definitely did the trick - nice and strong as it should be.

WELL, upon inspecting the menu so graciously laid out before me, I came to find that there in fact was no breakfast burrito on the menu. Really?? I feel like it is a cardinal sin to exclude a fairly easy yet quite popular item from any sort of breakfast menu. Determined to get what I came for, I kindly asked the waiter if they would be able to make me a breakfast burrito using the ingredients from one of the other menu items. He went back and asked the cooks if they had any tortillas, and as they did indeed have tortillas (that fact kind of confused me - why would you have tortillas at your restaurant when you do not have any items on the menu that use the tortillas? Well, maybe there was an item on the lunch portion), I was able to have a custom made breakfast burrito, seen below.

I was unsure how this guy was going to turn out, but after digging in I was quite surprised at the results. Again, I really like when my breakfast burrito has the home fries mixed into the burrito itself, but combined this was quite a good burrito. They loaded me up with lots of guacamole if you like that (I do not) and the ingredients within the burrito were well mixed, however lacking any sort of really strong flavor. Imagine ordering scrambled eggs, two sausage links and home fries and wrapping them up in a tortilla - that is essentially what I had. Still, any sort of pepper sauce really livens up a breakfast burrito and it turned out to be a really good meal.

Rating: ******* 7/10

I will definitely go back and see if they will make me another burrito, and if the results stay consistent I will definitely suggest that they add a breakfast burrito to the menu. Compliments to the chef!