Eggs-actly what you need for breakfast
DINING OUT
What food can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner, have books
written about it and even a movie made about it? The ‘credible,
edible egg’ no less, starring in “The Egg and I”, a sophisticated
comedy with Fred Mac Murrey and Claudette Colbert (circa 1947)
And the egg in all its variations has been featured at Kathy May’s
Restaurant, on Gothard Street and Center Avenue, since it opened in
May, 1999. Here is ‘home-style’ cooking to wake you up on a bleary
Monday morning. But Kathy didn’t learn to cook in her mother’s
kitchen like so many restaurant owners. She learned on her first job
in 1973 at Bob’s Big Boy where all managers-in-training were required
to learn how to cook.
Breakfast choices at Kathy’s fill the first pages of the menu and
range from the simple, two fresh eggs any style with potatoes and
bread ($4.99) to an imaginative combinations in omelet’s like the
Works ($7.49), which begins with three hand-whipped eggs folded over
pieces off sausage, crisp bacon, ripe tomatoes and, would you believe
broccoli, cauliflower and carrots? Topped with melted jack and
cheddar cheese, it fills half a hot platter.
The other half is a great pile of very good home fried potato
cubes tossed with onions and green peppers. A fluffy, very light
homemade blueberry muffin with choice of bread, but you could have a
biscuit or bagel. Always seeking to please, Kathy will substitute egg
beaters ($.50 extra) to make this platter exceptional.
Our server Donna had to use both hands to deliver my choice, the
Tower Power($6.99) two hot platters that would have made two
breakfasts and is certainly designed for the legendary farm worker.
On one is two eggs over nice and easy beside two strips of bacon, two
mild link sausages and a slice of orange. On the other four thick
triangles of French bread lightly dipped in egg, fried and sprinkled
with powdered sugar or I could have chosen two biscuits and gravy.
There are coffee variations from espresso ($1.99) to cappuccino
($2.99). Our regular coffee ($1.49) was at times not as hot as it
could be.
Though Kathy oversees the recipes and creates the menu, Refugio
Garcia (Cuco) is top cook among five that keep the orders coming
fresh and hot. Kathy’s features specials not on the menu at a dollar
less on weekdays until 11 a.m., which is one way she introduces
dishes that may later make it to the regular menu like the turkey
sausage and two eggs with potatoes and toast ($6.49), corned beef
hash and two eggs ($6.49) or huevos ranchero with three eggs ($7.49).
Now you will see why the egg here is so incredible -- it comes in
many disguises all day long at Kathy May’s.
* MARY FURR is the Independent restaurant critic. If you have
comments or suggestions, call (562) 493-5062 or e-mail
hbindy@latimes.com.
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