Get up early! Eat brekkie!

One of the great things about NYC is that there’s always a reason to get up early. And of cors, it’s always food related.
NYC seems to have no end of new “good” brekkie places to check out. Why is that? Is this a side effect of New York being such a fast paced, go go kind of town that its denizens insist on waking up early to squeeze every last bit of life out of the 1440 minutes allotted each day? Maybe that’s the reason why New York is one of those rare places where people here get up hella early but also stay out VERY late.
Each time I visit, I mysteriously morph into one of these early risers, so I can try out a new brekkie place before the hordes hit and a 5 minute wait becomes a 1 hour wait. Maybe that’s why people get up early here. To eat brekkie!

If you get here before 1030, you can just walk up to the counter and seat yrself…
Despite the dubious sounding name, Community Restaurant is a pleasant, well lit place with nice big tables in the front and smaller tables hidden in the back for some privacy. And unlike many of the restaurants in San Fran, Community also has a counter where you can seat yourself if you’re eating solo. Following my modus operandi when it comes to trying new places, I wind up ordering one of the simpler dishes on the menu, blueberry pancakes with a side of bacon.

Not really artsy because I was more interested in eating it than styling it…
In the greasy spoons I usually haunt, pancakes usually have a spongy feel to them, both when you cut into the stack with your fork AND when you actually chew and swallow. You can also experience the sponginess when your plate is dry after drowning the stack in syrup 5 minutes earlier. That’s because many restaurants use a mix where you add water instead of making the batter fresh. Fresh batter usually does not have the sponginess. Community’s blueberry pancakes does not have the sponginess. And because of the quality of the ingredients that the pancakes are made with, they provide a small tin of maple butter instead of syrup. You can enjoy the yumminess of the pancakes without having to drown them in syrup.
Did I just type “yumminess”? Hmm I guess I did. The orange juice (order the large) was fresh squeezed and the coffee was from a pot (as opposed to the french press you get at Norma’s). It was cold outside so it wasn’t too bad having coffee from the pot. Warms ya up, it does…

Community Restaurant
2893 Broadway (between 112th & 113th)
New York NY 10025
212.665.2800
http://www.communityrestaurant.com