Moving Day

Today is moving day, so before going over to meet the movers at our new place we visited Morning Star Cafe on 2nd Avenue to make sure we have enough energy to last through all the stress of moving. We have been to several of these diner-type places since moving here, and this one is fairly typical, with a wide-ranging menu of diverse options that make it hard to believe that a single kitchen can possibly turn out an edible version of all the various choices. Breakfast is pretty straightforward, though, and that's when we usually end up at this kind of establishment.

One thing that impressed me here was the quality of the fruit salad they offer for breakfast. Usually what I get is a fairly unremarkable medley of melon (cantaloupe + honeydew), a couple of grapes, perhaps some pineapple, and then possibly a small quantity of more "premium" items like berries of some kind. I get the feeling that a large container of this preparation is made up and the beginning of the week from which individual portions are doled out (no pun intended) in ever lessening condition of quality until the beginning of the week rolls around again.

At Morning Star, though, the fruit salad seemed freshly made, at the very least this morning. And far from the usually heavy reliance on melon, this one was largely composed of nectarine and kiwi. There were also the usual suspects melon, pineapple, and grapes but combination and ratio was distinctive enough that I will remember it and return just on that basis. Little J rated their Belgian waffle with a thumbs up, and that will be the key recommendation allowing us to return as a family.