This past Saturday, August 1st 2009, Barry and I headed out early in the morning to take care of some banking business. Afterwards we stopped at a restaurant we had found recently in the neighborhood called Bite Rite. It's very health conscience, with calories, carbs and fat grams listed below every item. All the breads are whole grain and they even have sugar-free deserts. We have been there twice for dinner and saw some interesting things under the breakfast menu so we thought we would give it a try.
Barry ordered the whole wheat french toast with orange sauce and I got some kind of Indian pancake made of brown rice flour with a tomato chutney. And then we each ordered a scrambled egg. I ordered coffee, without milk, which was quite a challenge. You wouldn't think it would be so hard to explain a dairy allergy in a health food restaurant! Barry ordered orange juice and a "glass" of milk.
The french toast and the pancake thingy were both good, not enough sauce on either, but I understand why everything is portion controlled. My coffee and Barry's juice arrives and so far everything is cool. Then we each get a little plate of something white and fluffy, we are informed they are the scrambled eggs, they use only the whites. We are both thinking great and then we taste them. It was almost like grits were mixed in, they had a faint egg taste but a definite texture that didn't belong. As we are trying to figure out what it is the waiter arrives with Barry's milk, steaming hot in a coffee cup! He left and it was all we good to do not to laugh out loud! After all, he didn't specify cold! We asked about the eggs, only whites and skim milk we were assured. I guess they forgot about my dairy allergy! Yes, I was miserable later.
We decided two things as we drove away. One; it's a good place for dinner not breakfast, and two; it was probably powdered egg whites thus the texture!
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