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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

San Francisco's Top Five Diners

Posted By on Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:15 AM

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It's time for breakfast - SKULLZ PRESS
1. Eddie's Cafe

At Eddie's, no two coffee cups are the same. It would seem the drinking vessels at the eatery where Al Green is always playing on the soundsystem were acquired by a cross-country driver who stopped at every last tourist stand and twice at Graceland.

Finding cheaper, better Southern diner fare -- grits, hashbrowns, "soul food" -- would be difficult (Your humble narrator prefers two pancakes with eggs over easy, grits, and salmon patties).

But it'd be damn near impossible to find a place with food of this quality and price occupied by such an eclectic mix: Elderly African Americans of the fedora-wearing era; emaciated, unwashed, tattooed hipsters; and, to top it off, the soul food cafe is owned and operated by Asians.

See? In San Francisco we really do have the best of everything.

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Joe Eskenazi

Joe Eskenazi

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Joe Eskenazi was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left. "Your humble narrator" was a staff writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015. He resides in the Excelsior with his wife, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.

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