At five minutes to nine, hungry patrons were already snaking around the block. Those in front peered into the Centre Street Café’s long windows, waiting for the griddle to start smoking, the tables to be set.
When the doors opened, the rain-sprinkled millions filled their mugs from steaming carafes on the front counter. Then, like schoolchildren looking for their assigned seats, they headed to their “usual” tables.
Overstuffed plates of vegetable-loaded “California Sunrise Eggs” ($6.95), complete with a homemade biscuit of the day, moved down the narrow aisle in the hands of a good-humored waiter, while in front of me landed a plate of featherlike, overnight-batter waffles ($11.95) hidden beneath heaping piles of fresh local strawberries, pineapple, Granny Smith apple, cantaloupe, and banana, plus three country sausage patties ($1.95). Had I not left sated (with a container of maple-syrup-drizzled fruit salad, no less), I would have considered showing up for dinner later that night.
Centre Street Café, 669 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain | Mon - Fri, 11:30 am - 3 pm and 5 - 10 pm; Sat,9 am - 3 pm and 5 - 10 pm; Sun, 9 am - 3 pm and 5 - 9:30 pm | 617.524.9217.
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