At Dave's Restaurant again today at 7:30 AM. The sun sharply in the east cast long shadows off the downtown lamp posts. Jack hammers broke up the sidewalks across the street from Dave's, as workers got ready to install another serious outbreak of cobblestone sidewalks, this time around the newly-vamped Clarke Hotel. But it was quiet inside Dave's except for the friendly banter of regular customers inside this 105 year old cafe, folks who have been coming to Dave's for their hearty and down-to-earth breakfasts for years, some of whom live in the walk-up apartments downtown.
For $8.88 total, my wife and I secured two huge breakfasts of X large chicken eggs, shredded and nicely-crisped porcinity, American segments of potato, deliciously browned and Wisconsin-buttered sourdough toast, and continuously refilled excellent coffee. It was served with a smile by veteran waitress and now manager of Dave's, Pam Sefton. Directly behind the counter, owner Jose Suarez did the cooking and swiftly handed over customers' plates from a small grill area that should be worn through to the basement after all the years that tiny space has been trod.
This is the place anyone wanting to take a true reading of Everyman & Woman Waukesha should come. It has been nicely upgraded, hence a bit lamentably lessening the charming grundge of many yesteryears. You can breath in there now without holding a cloth to your face because the smoke from cigarettes is sucked up by a high-powered ventilating system, and, let's face it, smoking just isn't that cool anymore. Sweats, windbreakers and baseball caps are still good form at Dave's.
The raccoon news recently ran a reprint of a New York Times Sunday travel feature on fine dining around the world. It was authored by food critic octogenarian, NY Greenwich Villager, Mimi Sheraton, who, as she says, is still going strong (and counting). In the credits for this now free-lance-written piece (she used to be the food critic for the NYT) was a plug for a book that Sheraton has written, a memoir of her long career as an enarmoring and then international food expert and public speaker.
This winning book is titled Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life. We just received it and have taken the liberty of ordering another copy for a good friend who just returned from sampling the fare in Italy. She is a graduate with us of the Waukesha High School class of 1954.
The point is, the raccoon news would bet a bottom dollar - the kind you spend at Dave's -that Mimi Sheraton, with her broad brush, would paint a lovely picture of Dave's Restaurant in Waukesha WI.
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It's Dave's in historic downtown Waukesha!
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