Description: Foster's Market was the place that we chose for our Sunday morning breakfast. It is located way out of town and is not a typical restaurant by a long shot. It is part country store, part gourmet store and lastly part cafeteria. Not cafeteria like in a big city, no chrome and trays etc. but if you are looking for table service a lot of pampering this is absolutely not the place for you. If you are easily confused, the same can be said.
I like to think that we are pretty much on top of just about everything and we were pretty confused. We came in the side door. You are looking at the registers and counters. It isn’t at all clear what you are supposed to do. Try not to be distracted by the case of delicious baked goods and go around to where the blackboard is hanging from the ceiling. This is where you are going to see what the specials are and where you will place your order. There are the usual breakfast items, a daily omelet special, breakfast biscuit, breakfast buritto and tacos, pancakes and bagels.
I saw a bagel with peanut butter banana and honey on the board. That sounded like something I would enjoy sinking my teeth into so along with coffee and orange juice it is what I ordered. Actually it was a good thing I chose a lighter meal since I decided to try a smoothie later since that is one of their specialties.
Joe ordered the children’s portion of pancakes which on this day was a peach pecan pancake and Al had an omelet. You place your order at the counter and then get your own coffee and try to find a table. On a Sunday, and this was in February that was not an easy task. It was about 11am not early in the morning and while we did find a place to sit, it was not really a relaxing sort of place to enjoy breakfast. When our orders were ready, young people came through the room shouting names to give you your order. I got my food quite a bit faster than Al or Joe. The food was good. Good enough for the rushed feeling and total lack of atmosphere, no. I might try here again for breakfast but it would be during the week when I would feel as if my enjoying a second or third cup of coffee wasn’t going to keep others from finding a place to sit.
The store also has lots of interesting things to look at but there are tables in front of some of them and I felt as if I was disturbing the people who were sitting there. The idea here is good, the food is good and we got a crumb bun to go that was great but the practical application of the concept doesn’t work all that well, at least for me. It didn’t seem to bother the other people who were dining here and there were droves of them. There is plenty of free parking and there is space outdoors for dining.
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