Eats and Drinks
Best Breakfast
Golden West Café
842 W. 36th St., (410) 889-8891
Although we're granting Golden West best breakfast for about the billionth time, we're also asking you not to go there. It's too crowded already. The tiny room and closely spaced tables are constantly jammed with folks who, like us, can't resist the made-from-scratch buttermilk pancakes, the apple-wood smoked bacon, and the huevos rancheros all served all day, every day. Sometimes service crawls and sometimes we wait eons for a coffee refill, but we keep going back. Maybe it's the Bismarck, a bubble of pastry dough filled with fruit and doused in butter and sugar. The menu says, "There is no substitute for real butter, if it offends you do not order this." Breakfast with an attitude. We love it. And it's ours, we tell you, all ours. Keep away.
Other Awards for Best Breakfast:
Miss Shirley's, 9/16/2009
Jimmy's Restaurant, 9/17/2008
Blue Moon Café, 9/19/2007
Suburban House, 9/20/2006
XS, 9/21/2005
Pete’s Grille, 9/22/2004
Blue Moon Café, 9/19/2001
Pete's Grille, 9/17/1997
Pete’s Grille, 9/18/1996
All Awards for Golden West Café:
Best Chicken Quesadillas, 9/19/2007
Best Bar for Nonsmokers, 9/20/2006
Best Bloody Mary, 9/21/2005
Best Desserts, 9/22/2004
Best Place to Eat Alone, 9/19/2001
Best Frito Pie, 9/15/1999