Well, you’d get the WBC’s brunch outing at Sonora in Port Chester. How’d it shape up? Let’s find out together.
179 Rectory Street
Port Chester
New York 10573 (Map)
(914) 933 – 0200
Attendees: :jump_to_Sylvia:, :jump_to_Shelley:, :jump_to_Pat:, :jump_to_Andrew:, :jump_to_Jeff:
Attendees:Sylvia, Pat, Reid
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Our opening quote comes courtesy of the metal band Punishment, via Fire Island co-host Tomas. Let me take a moment to give a shout-out to the site that Tomas runs, The Musician’s Lab. Like music? Like podcasts? Then you should like The Musician’s Lab. Come on, do it. Like them.
Anyway, while the rest of the WBC was holding down the metaphorical breakfast fort in Westchester, I was doing a different thing, taking a much needed vacation on Fire Island. From the moment I stepped onto the ferry at Bay Shore, LI, I was instantly in vacation mode, and when I stepped off the ferry at the dock in Ocean Beach 20 minutes later, I was transported to a world of R&R. Now, maybe I’m a cynical New Yorker type of person, but the thing that struck me about Ocean Beach was how darn friendly everyone was. Locals offered help, they smiled and said hello. There are no cars on the island, which just makes everything blissfully quiet and easygoing. People ride bikes (with bells and baskets!) and pull little red wagons behind them. It was beautiful.
I could go on about my vacation, detailing how my sunscreen didn’t blend well and made me look like a goth kid, explaining in amazement how I didn’t crash my rented bike despite not having ridden a bike in upwards of 15 years (I guess you really don’t forget!), and how with my flashlight I accidentally became the nighttime sex on the beach patrol. But I know what you’re all here for, you want to hear about the breakfasts. Ok, I’ll get on with it.
I had breakfast at two establishments in Ocean Beach: Rachel’s Restaurant and The Landing. Read on for my reviews, as well as reviews from some very special guests!
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If you can’t find these establishments, they’ve either closed down or you’re not where you think you are.(Map it)
Wednesday, June 15, 2011: Jimmy’s Shrimp Shack or something equally mundane
Attendees: Andy
Thursday, June 16, 2011: Rachel’s Restaurant
Attendees: Andy, Wendy, Shelley, Tracey, Tomas, Gabriel
Friday, June 17, 2011: The Landing
Attendees: Andy, Shelley, Tracey, Tomas, Gabriel
Disappointment is an inevitable part of life. We are disappointed by lovers, disappointed by friends, or disappointed by our district’s representatives.
And sometimes we are disappointed by breakfast.
Which of these things disappointed the WBC this week? The reader who guesses correctly wins an awesome prize.*
*Note: There is no prize. Just the satisfaction of knowing you correctly guessed the answer to this beyond painfully obvious question.
The Bread Factory Cafe
265 N Central Avenue
Hartsdale, NY 10530(Map it!)
Attendees: Pat, Andrew, Shelley, Sylvia
May 21 was, according to some, Rapture Day, the start of 5 months of judgment days, the start of end times, all culminating with the end of the world in October.
The WBC decided to kick all this off with breakfast at the Star Diner in White Plains. It’s not every restaurant that has to go up against the question “Was this a place worthy of Rapture Day breakfast?”
We posed this question to ourselves at the end of our meal. (Well, not all of us. Patrick was absent from breakfast, leading the remaining WBC members to assume he had flown over to Hong Kong in order to be raptured at their 6:00 local time.)
So, was our breakfast rapture-worthy? Had Patrick, in fact, been raptured? Read on to find out.
Star Diner
66 1/2 E Post Rd
White Plains, NY 10601 (Map it!)
Attendees: Shelley, Jeffrey, Reid, Sylvia
One rainy Sunday 50% of the WBC learned that Pumpernickel isn’t just a bread, it’s also a restaurant in Ardsley. This outing also saw the establishment of a new WBC rule. Want to know the rule? Read on hungry masses, read on.
Pumpernickel
925 Saw Mill River Road
Ardsley, NY 10502 (Map it!)
Attendees: Jeffrey, Pat, Sylvia
It’s happened. We’re famous. At least to the readers of The Journal News.
On Wednesday, April 27 a front page story ran about the WBC. To be fair, it was the front page of the Life & Style section, but hey, it’s still a front page, and any front page is, in our mind, a step in the right direction. Well, maybe not any front page. Ok, so all we’re trying to say is that we’re really excited about the story that ran about us in The Journal News, and we’d love for all of our readers to check it out if you haven’t already.
You can find a link to our article here:
Thanks for following our breakfast adventures over the last year and a half. We’ll have a fresh serving of breakfast reviews posted soon!
