At the end of the last #PDXBreakfast, @BryanStearns asked if we could have our next breakfast at the Blue Pig. I happily agreed because it meant that I wouldn’t have to decide where to have this week’s #PDXBreakfast. But, as it turns out, I met @BryanStearns & @GinaBean at the Blue Pig for breakfast that very weekend. Bryan ended the meal by telling me that all he wanted to do was make sure I had breakfast at the Blue Pig, so I was now free to hold the next #PDXBreakfast at the location of my choice. While I very much appreciated the gesture, that was a bad move on Bryan’s part, since it left me way to long to mull over where to hold the next #PDXBreakfast.
A normal person probably would have left well enough alone and stuck with Plan A. While I am many things, normal is not one of them. I kind of blame my father for this (take that Freud!) My father doesn’t like repetition. He had a rule about always taking a different route home (he no longer drives, so this is now a tough rule to enforce) and he refuses to eat the same food twice in one day. While I don’t always need to take a different route home, I do like to mix things up. @RabbiDavid thinks it is very weird that I will sometimes take a longer route if it means I get a break from the routine. This also applies to restaurants. I try to avoid going to the same restaurant on two consecutive occasions. Thus the crux of my dilemma.
I have spent the last week debating revisiting the Blue Pig vs. any other breakfast place in Portland. We have yet to try Toast. I wasn’t impressed with the Blue Pig’s biscuit, which led me to think fondly of Bakery Bar’s homemade pepper biscuit (yum!!!!). I finally made it to the Rocking Frog, and while their breakfast menu is very limited, their made-to-order donuts were awesome! This morning, I finally came to a decision driven by behavior rather than decisiveness. Since it is now Wednesday morning and I have yet to post a location, I figure I should stick with what we all agreed to a couple of weeks ago. But, since I still can’t stop thinking about Bakery Bar’s biscuits, I am going to schedule the next 2 breakfast locations now.
I just looked at the calendar and realized that our first #PDXBreakfast in January is the day before @RabbiDavid’s birthday. And since I know that he loves, loves, loves Zell’s, I will postpone fulfilling my desire for a Bakery Bar biscuit for a bit longer (knowing that my birthday is in February) to give @RabbiDavid a birthday treat. It also means I am creating a new #PDXBreakfast rule:
Hear ye, hear ye. As of December 2011, any member of the #PDXBreakfast cohort (and we define membership as showing up) gets to choose the #PDXBreakfast location for the gathering closest to their birthday. So say we all.
Thursday, December 29th – 8:30am Blue Pig at 2028 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Thursday, January 12th (2012–eek!) – 8:30 am Zell’s Cafe at 1300 SE Morrison St.
