PDX Breakfast

I am now the proud owner of Breakfast in Bridgetown, 2nd serving. I won it from Daily Deals for Mom’s. But wait, you ask, you’re not a mom. True ‘dat. But anyone who knows me knows that I dote on my twin niecelettes, and I actually subscribe to several parental discount sites to find deals for my brother and some of the other parents I know. Ok, so now that I have restored my legitimacy, the next obvious question is why someone who runs #PDXBreakfast didn’t already own the book. The only thing I can say is that I was clearly a fool in assuming that I could get by just reading the Breakfast In Bridgetown Blog.

What makes the book better than the blog? Imagine it is Sunday morning and you and some friends have decided to go out to breakfast. Somebody suggests a restaurant, but someone else in the group says he/she doesn’t want to go there because the line is always too long.  A few more suggestions are made and all of them are shot down for a variety of reasons.  Eventually, at least one member of the group decides to seek help from the interwebs.  An hour later, nobody has moved and everyone is cranky from low blood sugar and caffeine deprivation.

Now, run the same scenario with the book in hand.  All of the ideas have been shot down, but the group has determined that they want a cheap place with no line in their neighborhood. Just flip open the book, locate a place to go and you’ve got a hot cup of coffee in your hand in no time.  I know, I know. Wasn’t the internet designed to do have the exact same power that I have attributed to the book? Well, yes. But sometimes having a well sorted and finite group of options just makes life simpler.

I was actually feeling kind of desperate to find places open at our new meeting time of 7:30 am. I spent some time looking on the web, but all I found were the same-old, same-old that I already knew opened early. But just flipping through Paul Gerald’s book, I now have 4 places, that I had not previously known about, bookmarked (you know, the old fashioned way–with a ripped up subscription card that fell out of a magazine).

I selected this week’s #PDXBreakfast location by my “who woulda thunk it” reaction when I saw that the Hollywood Burger Bar opens at 7:30am for breakfast.  It would never have occurred to me in a gazillion years that they were open for breakfast.

And for you lazy folks who just scroll to the bottom for the scoop, we are meeting this Wednesday morning, October 5th at 7:30am at the Hollywood Burger Bar located at 4211 NE Sandy Blvd.

And Paul Gerald, should you ever decide to join us for a #PDXBreakfast, your coffee is on me.