Breakers Cafe

After a quick hike on the matt davis trail we find ourselves at breakers cafe. Probably because its the only place to eat on the strip aside from the market.

Inside had a beach town feeling yet clean and modern. In general, i think the prices are kinda high for a place like this but the selection was great.

I ordered the clam chowder soup and tuna melt. Since they didnt have small portions i ended up paying for 2 full entree sizes. The food was good. I dont know if I was just starving from the hike, but i was really impressed. It def had more of a home cooked meal feeling if anything.

The chowder had large chunks of tuna and top with olive oil (nice touch). The tuna melt reminds me of  how mama use to do it. I enjoyed all of it. I ended up spending $30 including tip which seems pretty high for lunch but i loved it.

This is the best place that I will never go back to, that I have ever been. The reason I will never go back? The value, or lack thereof. I ordered a grilled cheese sandwich for over $13, and what I was expecting was something extraordinary. What I got was half a grilled cheese sandwich, a very good half but still, a half, and goopy at that, along with a small cup of tomato soup, again a very delicious small cup, but a small cup nonetheless, and a small side salad that was anything but delicious. The side salad was more like rotten leftovers.

The Organic Beet Salad on the other hand was delicious and quite a good portion, but still just a salad, and not worth $12.

The fact that this place charges $12 for a Tuna Melt that they make using canned Tuna just pissed me off, and I really had a hard time getting past that, even though I didn't order it.

Another thing about this place that rubbed me the wrong way was that the servers here do not take your order, and ours never introduced himself or helped us decide on what to order, yet the check came with tip percentage breakdowns, with the lowest one being 15%. Better even was the fact that the second check (after the CC was run) had those same breakdowns, however they were inflated and inaccurate and the amount displayed for 15% was actually closer to 18%.

The bottom line for me is this: If I pay $30 for LUNCH for two people at a place where you have to pour your own water and place your own order, we should both leave full and satisfied, and neither of us did. Check out the snack bar around the corner and get some fish and chips instead.

3 Stars. It's absolutely not a 5 star place. Bad coffee, fried foods, nothing terribly fresh, typical diner foods. It earns 3 stars due to it's proximity to the beach, and the fact that there aren't many other restaurants in the area. They also have a comfortable seating area here too, with couches, and a gas fireplace. So 3 stars is sufficient.

The employees are your typical hourly wage diner workers, not the most amazingly helpful people, and sometimes brash and whatnot, but they get their job done.

They close early though. 3pm. Just getting comfortable and they closed. Kind of crazy, really.