Sea Breeze Cafe & Restaurant

(415)242-6022
3940 Judah Street
(@ 45th Ave.)
San Francisco, CA
(Outer Sunset district)

Price: $-$$
Rating: 7 (Rating & price key)
Last visit: 05/12/07

The environs at this Outer Sunset cafe are unpretentious, mostly blue and aquatic-themed, with metal fish and flower photographs on the walls. We arrived at noon on a Saturday and were promptly seated and brought coffee. The first good sign was that the coffee was reasonably good (burnt coffee is only rarely followed by yummy food, in my experience!). Alas, on subsequent visits, the coffee was a mixed bag, sometimes good, other times burny.

As the recommended items were the benedict and chorizo w/eggs, that is what we ordered. The menu is small'ish, but has most of the usual breakfast items, along with a small lunch and dinner list.

There are several mimosa-like cocktails, as well as a soju-based bloody mary, which I ordered. It was a good, but not great, rendition, with an odd, but not entirely unpleasant flavor that I attributed to it being made with soju rather than vodka. Sarah's cranberry mimosa was excellent and had a strawberry perched on the glass rim, a nice touch. Our meals arrived speedily enough and we dug into the piping hot plates.

The chorizo w/eggs are very good - the spicy sausage plays a nice foil to the fluffy and perfectly cooked eggs. 4 small tortillas and some tasty yukon gold home-style potatoes accompanied the chorizo and eggs and made for some very satisfying breakfast burritos. The benedict was very good as well, and an unusual take on it - the hollandaise sauce was dosed with chipotle peppers, giving it a reddish/brown tint and a smoky, firey undertone. We both thought it was a quite successful take on this classic dish. Other items have been mixed, but nothing awful. The bacon and eggs are about average, although the scrambled eggs are nicely fluffy.

Service has always been speedy and friendly and they have plenty of staff. Coffee & water are refilled promptly and often, we've been checked in on us an appropriate amount, and so on.

This is one of the better breakfast options in the outer Avenues that we've found so far, not that there's that much to choose from! One thing to note is that Sea Breeze only serves breakfast on weekends, and they don't open until 10am on Saturday (8am on Sundays).