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They're limited. All that sticks in my mind as to options were fresh squeezed orange juice, coffee, iced tea .....no soft drinks.
We both got iced tea, it was a mix of peppermint and some standard black tea, the name of which escapes recollection.
I LOVED it! Boldly flavorful without the bitterness that over-steeping engenders!
The lady, who is sensitive to anything peppermint, did not.
The waiter is apparently the tea mixologist as following my compliment regarding the tea, he brought out the residual leaves of a tea he had made the day before that was extraordinarily fruity and floral in nature.
That one smelled extraordinary, and would have been most certainly would have been kinder to the lady's palate.
The food:
She got a potato fritatta with wild shrimp garnish, some kind of special bacon from pigs with pedigrees or some such nonsense, creme fraiche, etc.
It was $15.
She felt it was ok. Not awesome, but ok.
The taste she gave me was similarly just ok, as there was no shrimp or bacon in the bite, and as a topper it was tepid.
If it's a hot dish, I want it hot, not tepid, so no 5 star experience here.
I got corned beef hash with eggs and house made English muffin.
The hash was good, but having recently made my own with beef that I corned in the vicinity of St. Patrick's day, it wasn't as good as what I made, and the beef itself was dry.
The potato component of the hash had been cooked in oil in the pan , I think separately, then the twain were mixed, and didn't share the beef's dryness.
The eggs were fine, but I think the description of the dish promised one more egg than what appeared. Inasmuch as a side of the hash was $4, and the meal was $10, I kinda thought the money merited that extra egg.
The English muffin was quite good and flavorful, but unlike the typical of the genre, lacked all the familiar nooks and crannies, for which Thomas's had made certain we all look.
Perhaps that was ok as it was served dry and no butter was provided or offered to fill the nooks, however a house made fruit compote/jam hybrid was provided which was quite good.
The service was excellent and effusive and filled with a pride of product that was infectious.
We got a handful of pastries to take home.
In my experience the better looking the pastry, the less tasty.
These items have belied that rule to a degree, as they all looked great, and of the two which we have sampled a pecan roll and a cheese croissanty/danish the former was quite good, the latter good.
The latter needed a bit more cream cheese to reward one for scarffing down all that dough.
We both stated that we would come back, but we just didn't have the quasi-religiious experience that others have shrared, so we didn't immediately add them to the "short list."
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