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| - When I was a kid, Bill Cosby was one of America's Respected Men, believe it or not. And from the high perch of Saturday morning television, he often pontificated to the country's youth on how breakfast was the "most important meal of the day."
For too many years, I took "most important" to mean "very large." That led to many unconfortable weekend days saddled with the results of Shoney's Breakfast Bar or some other horrible, oversized breakfast, sometimes administered in an effort to cure a hangover (but almost always exacerbating it).
Having learned the error of my ways, I still think of breakfast as very important, but it's also important to keep it light. A place like Amelie's French Bakery is perfect for that. It has reasonably-sized, reasonably-priced egg sandwiches served on surprisingly decent baguettes, accompanied by very good coffee. There are plenty of great-looking pastries as well, although I didn't try those.
You get to enjoy this fare in a dining area that looks like an undergrad's fantasy of classical French sophistication. I mean that in a good way: It's got a shabby-chic and comfortable appeal to it. Impressively, Amelie's is open 24 hours a day, and I suspect that the surroundings would seem a bit surreal if you came here after a bender in the middle of the night.
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