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Cardinal Coffee Shop (Breakfast cuisine)  $$

 7.5
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3197 Meridian Ave, San Jose, 95124  (Directions)


408.269.7891


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Breakfast served 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in an eccentric setting


Reviewer: Jason
Total Reviews: 992
Reviewed: 1/1/2007
Rating: 7.5
My photo gallery 		The 1st meal of the new year was spent at the Cardinal Coffee Shop and Lounge in San Jose. It's one of the few restaurants in San Jose to be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The restaurant is decked out with odd decorations and keep an eye for the artistic painting of the fur trapper posing next to his pet wolf...classy stuff.

Although I ate here during the day, I'd recommend visiting at night to view the the eccentricities that make the Cardinal a special place to visit. Where else can you do Karaoke or watch a live band and order a pancake sandwich at 2AM in the morning?

Breakfast is the thing to get and you'll be tempted to order other items with the 7+ page menu. They have pretty much any combination of any breakfast item on the menu so if you like breakfast, you'll love the selection. I kept it easy with the pancake sandwich. It's 3 pancakes, eggs, and your choice of sausage or bacon.

pancakes (image 9, 10) - triple stack of fluffy sweet cakes. I spread a thin layer of butter between the pancakes and criscrossed maple syrup on top. I'm not too picky with pancakes and enjoy them 90% of the time. Today's pancakes were fine and worth ordering again.

eggs and bacon (image 8) - about 2 eggs and 3 pieces of bacon. It's fried bacon so don't whine to me when you see a little grease on your plate.

Today's breakfast isn't anything I couldn't cook up at home. The big difference is, I don't have to buy all the ingredients at the market, cook up a meal, and wash dishes afterwards. For $7.50, you get friendly service and a full belly. The food is pretty good but when you add getting sloshed next door in the lounge at wee hours of the morning, Cardinal Coffee Shop and Lounge easily becomes a local favorite. Bonus points for staying open 24/7/365.
 
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Forcella ate...

Scrambled eggs, bacon, home fries, English muffin

“The Cardinal has the BEST breakfasts in Silicon Valley. Look at the photo of the bacon & eggs in the review and realize that as magnificent as that photo IS, it doesn't come CLOSE to doing it justice. The place is also an oddball magnet. I love it!”

2/25/2007 4:48:29 PM