BE CREATIVE!!!

COSTA MESA - Still in So Cal, and have noticed two things:

1. O.K., I love the all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet (see my earlier post), but please, kitchen people: AFTER FOUR OR FIVE DAYS OF THE EXACT SAME FOOD, THE BUFFET LOOSES ITS APPEAL. Can you mix it up? Please? Pretty please? Would it hurt you to make some custom-ordered omelette's, or throw some Canadian bacon out there?? I mean, come on, be creative.

2. Avoid ordering calamari at a fast food restaurant (Daphne's). It's NOT GOING TO BE THE SAME AS FISHERMAN'S WHARF OR THAT REALLY COOL RESTAURANT IN NY CITY WHOSE NAME HAS JUST SLIPPED ME. (It won't even be close!!!!)

Rantings from the road.

Made in America

COSTA MESA -- In Orange County CA on a business trip for several days, and this morning partook of something quintessentially AMERICAN---the $10.95 all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet. There is nothing better, IMHO, to start a long and when-will-I-have-time-to-eat day than with a huge breakfast spread: coffee, juice, pastry, scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, pancakes, and yes, a couple (O.K., THREE) strips of bacon. I'm good now till 3 or 4:00 p.m. easy. Really, you load up on the morning buffet and you don't NEED lunch. It's a great deal, a nice splurge, and yes, I'll walk off all the calories and such throughout the rest of the day. Life in Costa Mesa, at the Orange County Hilton, is very good today.