Chill With A Fulfilling Brunch!

You can create a leisure lifestyle in San Francisco even though it is a busy city. Start your day with a nice and satisfying brunch is one of your options! It is a good method to get your taste buds active during the day! Zazie is a French restaurant located in Cole Valley, a quiet neighborhood without heavy traffic. 
The restaurant has more than 1,900 reviews and four out of five star scale on Yelp, the famous food guide review website. Breakfast serves from 8am to 2:30pm on weekdays and 9am to 3pm on weekend. I went with my friend, Angela, who visits San Francisco for the first time. We arrived the restaurant at around 1pm on Monday. It was pretty busy. 
"Take any seats you want!" a waitress said with a cheerful smile. The restaurant has indoor and outdoor seating. We got the indoor seats, but there are small beams of warm sunlight flashing from the roof top. The environment is perfect for chilling with food and chats! 




Gingerbread pancakes is served with bosc pears, lemon curd and syrup. When the pancakes arrived, the sweet scent of lemon curd and pears came directly towards me! The pears are soft, but still crunchy! It is my first time trying gingerbread flavor pancake. I did not regret trying it because it does taste special! The pancake texture is not very fluffy, yet  it is rather slightly chewy. Sliced a small bite with the bosc pears and dip with lemon curd, food texture and mixed flavors are combined instantly!


We ordered a La Mer, which is two egg benedict served with hand picked dungeness crabs, haas avocado and green onions. I am a big fan of egg benedict. They are made with english muffin, a pouched egg and hollandaise sauce. It often goes with one of the following ingredients: ham, turkey, smoked salmon or portobello mushrooms.

This is a close up of the pouched egg. You can see the egg yolk is still soft instead of hard boiled. When you sliced up the egg, the egg yolk will pour out the liquid. You may dip it with the rest of the ingredients to create a great taste in your mouth. The crab meat are very fresh and sweet. There are no shells, which means the chief really pays effort in preparing this course! For the side, it comes with either potatoes or salad. They uses red potatoes, which contains more nutrients than yellow ones. It is cooked in a raw method, with a hinge of olive oil, salt and pepper. I prefer dipping some ketchup, since I found them a little too fresh for me.





It took about ten to fifteen minutes for all the food to come, but it is worth to wait. Zazie is a very considerate restaurant. It provides one to three eggs choices for the egg benedict and one to three pieces of pancakes with three different prices. Customers can choose the portion according to how much food they want. Of course, it benefits for customers who love to share and try more food combination within a meal! Who said only alarm clock can wake a person up? A brunch can act as an awesome wake up call for everyone's body!  

In addition, their plates have beautiful designs, which makes the overall appearance look even better! For those who are driving to Zazie, there are plenty of street parking available around the restaurant. Most of them are free for two hours. Bon Appetit! 


Zazie
Address: 941 Cole Street, San Francisco, CA 94117

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