I had breakfast here in late 2003 and was wildly unimpressed. I’d heard people wax rhapsodic about the place, the eclectic menu and the amazing flavors and the service was sometimes so-so but the food more than made up for it, and it’s in such a neat little location so you end up wall-to-wall people and the watching’s as good as the food.

I was there on a slow day and the service sucked, the food was marginal (radically undercooked pain perdu), the coffee just horrible. I haven’t been since, and I know it went through an ownership change recently, so I should probably give it another chance.