That's Some Stiff Buerre
Another advantage of Montreal over Pasadena: the buerre doesn't melt on the way home from the marche.

However, try to strike up a conversation in the local diner about whether or not USC deserves to be delcared #1, and you get a lot of blank stares.

This morning, I went to a second of two local diners I've found within 3 blocks. I gave two Saturday breakfasts to the other, and it was time to check out. Diner #1 has great character, is being run mostly by 20 year olds. I was getting 3 eggs scrambled, links, bacon, potatoes and coffee for about $4 American (plus tax and tip). The downside was lots of smoke.
Diner #2 has been open about 60 years, but looks like it opened last week as a retro diner. Called "Beauty", and with anachronistic yet unaged artifacts of the 50s, the omelets were competent but completely without character. However, they served a Montreal bagel with breakfast. Montreal bagels differ from the familiar New York counterpart in that they are less bready, more crusty, with less yeasty heft. They are baked in a wood-fired brick oven. And they taste divine.
- posted by Unknown @ 1/03/2004 07:30:00 AM