24 Oct Ladies who Brunch at Dottie’s

So if you want to embrace your newly fledged “Americanism” and live it up “Sex and the City style”, then glorify in the girly gossiping get- together I like to call “Ladies who brunch and munch”. This is exactly what me and my girlfriends got up to downtown on Friday.

When I heard through the grapevine by my beautiful friend Meriam, that Dottie’s True Blue Cafe was “the best brunch experience in the city”, we had to flutter ourselves on down there prompto! and so we did just that….

Verdict:

Dottie’s truly is the perfect remedy cure to banish hangover blues indeed!

Never judge a book by it’s cover. From the outside, this cafe looks like a right dive, or as we like to call it in Blighty England: ” a greasy spoon” BUT as soon as you step inside Dottie’s, your suspicions are reversed and it is infact a cosy humble oasis. Wafting aromas emanate from the griddle and the soothing soulful sounds of Billie Holiday envelope your ravenous senses. Vintage black and white portraits of 1920’s flapper dancers and actresses adorn the walls. A cinnamon-streusel coffeecake and apricot-oat scones sit upon the counter before you as you queue to be seated. Big and homemade are the buzzwords here. (FYI: a long queue to be seated is somewhat annoying BUT tells you it is a golden gem of a cafe to feast in, so it’s well worth the wait!)

The menu for this joint serves an array of quirky dishes that behold an explosion of flamboyantly flirtacious flavours teasing and seducing your tastebuds, sending you dotty dizzy, causing a mouthwatering debate of delectable tempatations! After much contemplating with the all important Decisions, Decisions, I finally settled with the Smoked Whiskey Fennel Sausage, Mushroom & Spinach Scramble. Wow! that’s quite a generous mouthfall to even utter aloud. If that wasn’t enough, it comes served with carb galore: Grilled Corn Bread and potatoes!

In one deservingly hyperbolic word it was: Exquisite!! A perfect soft scramble that tenderly melts in your mouth oozing with dreaminess, the sausage was subtle, smokey and slightly sweet, the home fries were seasoned and crisp and the grilled “New Orleans” corn bread was honey coloured heaven!

Like the greedy glutton that I am, I proudly devoured the entire lot, nearly licking my plate clean, washed down with giant mugs of dark and inviting coffee that were attentively refilled by our cheerfully lively buxom waitress!

Us ladies walked out of our “Brunch Bonanza” like a cluster of happy, fatty, satisfied, stuffed campers!

Dottie’s has the soul and savor of what an American Brunch Heaven should be, a cozy place of sinfully good food. I recommend thee to take a trip downtown, go off the beaten path and explore their mind blowing kooky specialities!!

Other menu deliciousness includes:

Rosemary-lamb sausage scramble,

Bacon, tomato, scallion and blue cheese egg scramble,

Zucchini and the honey ham scramble,

Chorizo scramble with salsa,

Chili cheese cornbread with jalapeño jelly,

Feta, avocado, sweetcorn, scallions omelette served with buttermilk bread.

Cornmeal-raspberry pancakes,

Black plum crumb cake,

Whole wheat pancakes doused in cinnamon and ginger……… Taste bud tempting enough??….

How to find Dottie’s:

Dotties’s True Blue Cafe.

522 Jones St
(between Geary St & Ofarrell St)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Neighborhood: Civic Center/Tenderloin