Country Girl and I had a fine Sunday a couple weekends back visiting a new breakfast place in the neighborhood, made a trip to the south end to visit a Japanese garden and topped it off with a margarita pit stop downtown.
Patty's Eggnest is a local chain of breakfast spots and one opened near our neck of the 'burbs recently. We stopped by to give it a look see and mostly liked what we saw. It's quite spacious and full of natural light. The prior tenant was a bar and grill of sorts and while the bar is still there, no booze was available on our visit (boo). The food, however, delivered heat. Country Girl had a fruit waffle with their fancy devonshire cream and she had high praise for it. I had their Irish eggs benedict which comes with corned beef under poached eggs with hollandaise. Never had anything like it and will certainly try it again.
After breakfast, it was off to the Kubota Gardens in Ranier Beach. It was the first visit there for both of us and we came away impressed. It's a 4 1/2 acre garden over varying elevation complete with a stream, a couple of bridges and a couple of ponds. Lots of colorful plants and flowers and very well manicured. There's also a stone garden that's pretty neat. Despite being pretty far south, well worth the trip.
After the garden, we headed downtown to walk along the waterfront. While getting on stroll on there, a tout was kind enough to let us know about inexpensive margaritas at a Mexican place not too far away. We decided to check it out and sure enough, margaritas were available in abundance. Turns out it was Cinco de Mayo and it was a lively affair at El Malecon. In addition to lots of revelers, there was also a couple doing some traditional Mexican dancing from time to time. Though a bit inattentive at times, the bartender was quite friendly when around. After a couple margaritas and a brief chat with the most interesting man in the world, it was time to head home. Another exciting outing with Country Girl in the books.
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