Health Cafe

March 24 – After my exciting & late night, I didn’t feel much like doing anything today. John was fine with that as he was still recovering from Thailand & had to get ready to leave for India tomorrow. We went out for breakfast & intended to go to one of our favorite places, The Flying Pan. There were no tables when we got there (it is very small), so we sat at the counter. After about 10 minutes a table became empty so we sat there. The waitress informed us that we couldn’t sit there as people were waiting for the table who had their name on the list. We’ve been here a bunch of times & this was the first time we had heard of a list. I explained that we’d been there for over 10 minutes & had not been waited on & were waiting for a table & that I knew nothing about the “list”. I said that we had come in well before the people she was going to sit there. Her attitude seemed to be, too bad, you were not on the list. The people waiting for the table said that we could have it, they were very nice about it. I kept my cool, but was sort of tired of being pushed around. When I turned around, John was gone. I guess he didn’t like the lack of good service so just walked out. I let the people have the table & showed my disgust to the waitress & left also.

We wandered down under the escalator until we came to a place that Kristin & Ashley had talked about liking very much when they were here. It is called Health Café & is owned by the guy who owns the health club just across the way. The menu shows the calories for all of the dishes, which is really nice. They are obviously cooked in such a way as to minimize calories because few things were over 300 calories. I went for scrambled eggs on sourdough toast with spinach & mushrooms – it was great. John had an omelet that he said was very good. We splurged & got smoothies as well. You could watch the guy put in the fresh fruit & get the juice for the smoothie. I think we’ll go back.