Bea Bea’s
Coffee
Uh-Oh Oreo Pancakes – Oreo, Marshmallow, Walnut on Buttermilk Pancakes
Peaches & Crunch French Toast – Hawaiian Bread French Toast dipped in Corn Flakes and Almonds, topped with Caramelized Peaches and Whipped Cream with Sweet Cinnamon Honey Butter
Pain Perdu – Apples & Walnuts topped on an egg-dipped Croissant, Baked ‘beyond perfection’
Located in a Burbank Shopping plaza, humorously adjacent to Jenny Craig, the slogan of “Breakfast is Everything” immediately sold me on Bea Bea’s as the first stop after arriving in town and with 21-types of Pancakes and 19-styles of French Toast the only real questions were which sounded best and how much appetite I wanted to invest in the experience.
A bustling space, with diners of all ages and ethnicities quickly filling seats to capacity just one hour after the 7am opening, the décor at Bea Bea’s can best be described as ‘stripped-down’ and although creature comforts are few and far between the service is the sort to which most breakfast and brunch spots should aspire to be – friendly, efficient, full of recommendations, and quick to fill a cup…time and time again.
Unable to trim the abundant options to fewer than three, even after full descriptions and suggestions from the staff, it was eventually in two rounds of food that the meal took place and with each plate carrying a $10.95 charge and take-home boxes already in hand the tasting kicked off with a duo; the “Uh-Oh Oreo” Pancakes proving doughy and underwhelming as toppings were relegated to only the top cake while two thick wedges of custard-soaked yet crunchy French Toast fared far better beneath steamy stonefruit and whipped cream – a combination making the artificial maple syrup entirely unnecessary as house-blended cinnamon-honey better slowly melted into a tan, fragrant stream.
Saving the pure maple syrup from home as an accoutrement to the 25-minute prep-time finale it was almost like clockwork that the third plate arrived, and billed as the restaurant’s signature suffice it to say that the words on the menu present only the slightest of mistakes as buttery croissants arrived melded to fresh apples, walnuts, eggs, and custard forming something that harkens both bread pudding and Original Pancake House’s Famous Apple Pancake…all of it perfect, and not one bit ‘beyond.’
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