Gaffey Street Diner
247 Gaffey Street
San Pedro, CA 90731
My work schedule is about to change; this would be the last Sunday I would be off for a while. So Katie and I decided to try a place where I could use my new GPS and have a good breakfast. We like trying places that we have seen on TV, so we settled on Gaffey Street Diner in San Pedro.
This place was featured on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives with Guy Fieri. We have had some good luck with Guy's picks (Twisted Root Burger in Dallas) and bad luck ( The Four Kegs fiasco in Vegas), but we are always up for letting Guy redeem himself. This restaurant is owned by a husband and wife team known for making much of their food in the house. It has to be good, right? Let's see what we came up with.
This is the homemade biscuit that came with Katie's meal. The pictures make this look better than it was. It was a little dry and had little flavor. I really wanted to like this better, because this is one of the things they made on the show.
Katie got the Apple Pancake special. The eggs and bacon came out quick and fast. But, they made a mistake and brought out more eggs and bacon with the pancakes, which were much fresher. The pancakes were the best part of this plate. They were heavy on the cinnamon and did not skimp on the apples. They were rich and flavorful, a good pancake, and much better than the ones I had at the Original Pancake House.
This colorful-looking plate is the John Wayne. The story goes that when the owner worked at a different restaurant, John Wayne used to come in and ask for something to cure his hangover, and this is what he came up with. Home fries are on the bottom, eggs and cheese are in the next layer, and then a chili Verde sauce is on top of that, garnished by two sausage patties. This breakfast was as flavorful as it looks. Everything melded together well, and I would definitely get this one again. The Duke does it again!
I liked the Gaffey Street Diner. I was expecting it to be a little better, though. When you see a place on TV, you expect it to be out of this world, and this restaurant was good but not great. I wonder how these places get on the radar of the producers of these shows because this is the type of place you would just drive by and not think about going. However, it is a good, solid place, and the service was excellent and fast. They really made you feel at home.
Out of five cargo containers (because Gaffey Street Diner is so close to one of the world's busiest ports), five being best to zero being worst, Gaffey Street gets three cargo containers.
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We went there a couple years ago after seeing that DD&D, it was ok. I can't even remember what we had. The one thing that looked impressive was the Belgium waffle they did with all the fruit and stuff on it.
ReplyDeleteThe pancakes were so warm and the BOMB, and I loved the egg/pancake/bacon/syrup mashup I made - definitely good size portions, and the waiters were really attentive - worth the morning drive - here's to hoping (and crossing my fingers and toes) that you get some more Sunday mornings off eventually!!! Otherwise we'll have to seek out breakfast for dinner! Awesome post baby!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment Dan. I felt the same way about it, I would not go out of my way to go back, if I were in the area, I would stop by.
ReplyDeleteKatie, thanks for the comment, I hope we get to go to more breakfast places soon!
YOu have to try their french toast supreme. Or almost anything ont heir special board! The chili verde is awesome and so on! :) Maybe I need to visit here again this weekend!
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