a favorite place to break fast

One of the best meals to eat out is breakfast. Whenever we are on vacation we always look for a place of character to eat our simple eggs, bacon and toast. Good coffee is optional since we really don't expect any place to have better coffee than what we can make at home with our cold process coffee.

On our recent trip to Florida we went to a place we had scoped out a few years ago called the Blue Dolphin Cafe. This little cafe has a very friendly staff that proves excellent and speedy service and their breakfast food is mostly great. I say mostly great because the bacon leaves something to be desired, namely TASTE. Great breakfast bacon is so easy to find at lots of chain restaurants such as Cracker Barrel, so it's surprising when bacon is bland. Still, we love the atmosphere at the Blue Dolphin, their coffee is decent, even for "coffee snobs" like us, and they have never let us down with all the other menu items we've tried.

I had to take a picture of all the different varieties of hot sauce on each table. As one of the waitresses said, "Our customers like their hot sauce." That statement is indicative of this little hole in the wall cafe. They dote on their customers, who often wait in line for a chance to dine in this tiny breakfast hot spot. And if you have to wait, well, it's Florida, it's St. Armands Circle, it's shopping nearby, it's the beautiful Gulf of Mexico a few blocks away. Relax, you're on vacation.