Yul Lose Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Rosie’s Restaurant in downtown Escondido, Ca. was recently featured on Restaurant Rescue on the Food Network. Robert Irvine the British chef comes in and helps struggling owners and chefs improve their cooking and spends $10,000.00 fixing the place up. Before it was Rosie’s it was Champions Diner. It’s next door to my barber and I’ve been going to both of them for over 30 years. That may change. Once a week I like to go out for breakfast and have Eggs Benedict. Before Rosie’s was made over they had this chef that turned out the best eggs Benedict I’ve ever had. The eggs were poached soft and the hollandaise sauce was perfect and the home fries wonderful. The show was filmed about three months ago and since then they can’t get their eggs Benedict even close to what it was before. The chef that used to work there is gone and whoever the chef of the day is now has no clue on how to poach eggs. I like the eggs poached soft so they’re still runny, it just adds to the Benedict. Today the waitress sets my order down in front of me and I could tell right away that the eggs were poached hard and told her so. She didn’t believe me so I cut into them and sure enough hard poached eggs. Well in the past when I complained about the eggs she’d go get a couple of more eggs poached correctly and I’d add them to the Benedict, today she didn’t even offer but she did give me %50 off my bill. I’ve tried the eggs Benedict at other restaurants around the area and they can’t poach eggs either. IMHO, this place was better before it was “rescued”. It still has the tables that rock, new chairs that are to low and cooks that can’t poach eggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 I can see why Jason (chef) is gone. Is the poached egg problem always? i would order and specifically state soft poached and if it was not soft, I would pay for my coffee and leave. is the place clean now? And free of mold smells? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted May 20, 2019 Author Share Posted May 20, 2019 Since the makeover the hard poached eggs are standard and yes I’ve asked for soft poached. The problem is the only other place that came close is much farther away and much busier and noisy. Well I never smelled a mold odor before and the new tile looks great. I prop up my table leg but the next time I get there the prop is gone and I have to do it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Bummer. I remember having to deliver 16 perfectly poached eggs at the same time. and I don’t even like soft eggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 I too cannot abide a hard-poached egg. At home, I use one of those boiling pans with suspended ramekins so I can get them perfect every time; just like this morning. Though it's not easy with Eggs Benedict sometimes. Lot of heat control and timing issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted May 20, 2019 Author Share Posted May 20, 2019 34 minutes ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said: I too cannot abide a hard-poached egg. At home, I use one of those boiling pans with suspended ramekins so I can get them perfect every time; just like this morning. Though it's not easy with Eggs Benedict sometimes. Lot of heat control and timing issues. I was the first customer this morning so you’d think there would be no pressure to get it right. They used to have a great big tall African American cook that cooked the eggs perfect every time but he hasn’t been around in quite some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Keep sending them back until they get it right. If you order soft poached eggs, or eggs over easy, or however, that is what should end up on the table in front of you. There is no excuse for the service you are getting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 When I get a wobbly table I prop the legs with sugar packets. Real sugar, not artificial sweetener packets. I leave them there when I leave. At night when they mop up the packets get wet and the mop smears sticky sugar everywhere. After a while, if this keeps happening, the cleaners will complain and someone adjusts the tables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 My part of the world is having a real problem with biscuits and gravy. ALL of the restaurants hav gone to pre-prepared gravy and frozen biscuits. Unless I make it, a good breakfast is hard to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 Hard to believe for Missouri. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 3 hours ago, Noz said: My part of the world is having a real problem with biscuits and gravy. ALL of the restaurants hav gone to pre-prepared gravy and frozen biscuits. Unless I make it, a good breakfast is hard to find. I saw that in North Carolina years ago. It’s pretty bad when McDonald’s biscuits and gravy are the best around...actually McDonald’s biscuits and gravy are pretty darn good, but when southern cafes and restaurants get beat out by McDonald’s? That is pretty flippin’ lame if you ask me. The best biscuits and gravy in the world are served at Cindy’s in Molalla, Oregon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Ron Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 Howdy, Now you went an done it. I gotta head over for EB at the one place around that makes em right. When I put up with a trip to the doc, I stop at the place for EB. Last time they were jammed busy so I missed going. Not only will they make EB but they will make backwards EB. If you never tried it.....the cook puts all the stuff on the hash browns and the biscuit put on the side with butter an jam. Only place for miles that gets EB right. Something to think about while in the cat scan. Best CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted May 21, 2019 Author Share Posted May 21, 2019 5 hours ago, Noz said: My part of the world is having a real problem with biscuits and gravy. ALL of the restaurants hav gone to pre-prepared gravy and frozen biscuits. Unless I make it, a good breakfast is hard to find. My mom was a pretty good cook but her gravy was not so good. I told myself when I left home that I’d never eat biscuits and gravy again and I think in the last 48 years I’ve tried it a couple of times and I still don’t care for it, probably the early training. Her biscuits were good but the gravy not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 I love soft eggs Benedict too. I've never had the eggs hard. I've only had biscuits and gravy once. It was made by Long Jim Handcock. Yummy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 I guess it's how you're raised. Mama told me one time, when she was a little girl, she spent the night with a friend. For breakfast the next morning they had biscuits and gravy. Not "sausage gravy". Not "sawmill gravy" (whatever the heck that is). Just plain ol' milk gravy over biscuits. 'Cause they was poor. Couldn't afford anything else. Mama said, "We was poor, but at least we could afford food. Didn't have to live on biscuits and gravy." So we never had biscuits and gravy when I was growing up. We was poor, but we weren't THAT poor. And whenever I see someone chowing down on biscuits and gravy, or turnip greens and black eyes, or chicken backs and pig ears, I think, "Well, hell. At least I can afford real food". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Ron Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 Howdy, And I did. And it was gooooood. Thankx pards. Best CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 Best biscuits and gravy I ever had was at a fish camp in B.C. Canada. Bunch of us went there for a long weekend. Brought our own food. One of the guys showed up with a gallon of sausage gravy, and 4 dozen biscuits. His wife and Mother-in-Law made for us. It was all gone in the first day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 11 hours ago, Alpo said: And whenever I see someone chowing down on biscuits and gravy, or turnip greens and black eyes, or chicken backs and pig ears, I think, "Well, hell. At least I can afford real food". That IS real food. Except the chicken backs & pigs ears. Love me some turnip greens & black-eyed peas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie MacNeil, SASS #48580 Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 I thought the whole point of Eggs Benedict was to be able to cut the egg and have the yolk run down over everything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 6 minutes ago, Charlie MacNeil, SASS #48580 said: I thought the whole point of Eggs Benedict was to be able to cut the egg and have the yolk run down over everything? It is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted May 22, 2019 Author Share Posted May 22, 2019 11 minutes ago, Charlie MacNeil, SASS #48580 said: I thought the whole point of Eggs Benedict was to be able to cut the egg and have the yolk run down over everything? Exactly and when it doesn’t it’s not real Eggs Benedict. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Heck, I thought that was the purpose of poached eggs, period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 On 5/20/2019 at 11:07 PM, Noz said: My part of the world is having a real problem with biscuits and gravy. ALL of the restaurants hav gone to pre-prepared gravy and frozen biscuits. Unless I make it, a good breakfast is hard to find. Net to the ones I make at home, Jamie's Waffle Express in Prescott Valley and the sister store, Waffles and more in Prescott, make about the best biscuits and gravy I've ever had. The only exception was a place NE of Balboa Park in San Diego. B & G is my go to breakfast. here are lots of places that almost get it right, but almost none that get it great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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