Zazie
Sarah Jane’s Pancake Flight – Buttermilk, Gingerbread with Bosc Pears, Stone Ground Cornmeal “Miracle” Pancakes with Lemon Curd
French Toast Tahiti: Orange Cinnamon Challah Stuffed with caramelized bananas and walnuts
Unable to resist the early morning people watching of Haight-Ashbury during a trip to San Francisco an early Wednesday breakfast led me to Zazie, a small Cali-French bistro with high ceilings, friendly service, and most importantly a well culled menu of signature breakfast and brunch staples including both the oft raved Tahiti French Toast and three types of pancakes – all of which would find their way into an admittedly gluttonous carb-fest for one. Beginning first with the pancakes, the batter for which is sold on site, it would be hard to decide whether the Gingerbread or Cornmeal option was better but with maple syrup, pears, and lemon curd all accounted for the margin was slim and all were delicious with the texture of the cornmeal cakes toothsome yet light, an achievement not commonly achieved. Moving next to the French toast it should seem obvious to anyone that a dish with bruleed bananas, candied walnuts, and maple syrup would be delicious but what really set this toast apart was actually the subtle hints of citrus, an unexpected twist that made the entire dish taste slightly tropical and not as overwhelmingly sweet as one might think.
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