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Re: The War on Breakfast - 81alum - 09-29-2012

There will still be the Hobee's on El Camino.  And Hobee's says it is looking for a new Palo Alto location.  Hobbes apparently thought that it could not be profitable under the new regime at Town and Country.
http://www.almanacnews.com/news/show_story.php?id=12131
Still, not having Hobees in walking distance of the stadium will be a blow.

Whew! That was close - Redrum - 09-29-2012

My wife loves Hobees.  Every (infrequent) trip to Palo Alto includes breakfast at Hobees.  Day after day after day.  For the record, it IS possible to eat too many sweet potato pancakes in four days of earnest noshing.  We'll be out there next week.  The dilemma:  do I tell her Hobees is closing and risk a memorial binge,  or stay silent hoping the Town and Country closing puts her into a funk and she just stops eating breakfast?  Maybe keep the second Hobees location as a secret option depending on whether she initiates meltdown sequence?

Re: The War on Breakfast - Leftcoast - 09-29-2012

And Dinah's Shack.  And whatever the name was of the omelet house that used to be in T & C.

Thought from the title that this might be a commentary on the news report comparing eating eggs to smoking (!?!) but it's equally depressing.  There are other Hobee locations but that location was the über locale for the chain while the rest are pale cave shadows. 

I hate the new Town and Country as a stop off for my gameday visits and it can't be a student favorite either.  In fact beyond T& C, the new Palo Alto is making a string of choices for toney, bland and superficial over local character and unique.  From the outside looking in I'd say it is in danger of losing its civic soul.  There are still a few stalwarts around and I'm hopeful the Hobees management team is committed enough to the town to find somewhere else. 

Re: The War on Breakfast - 82lsju - 09-29-2012

don't forget the also departed Ken's House of Pancakes in Menlo Park

Re: The War on Breakfast - 81alum - 09-29-2012

And we can add Rickey's Hyatt House to the list of closed brunch spots and to the list of horrible Palo Alto planning decisions. 

Re: The War on Breakfast - CompSci87 - 09-29-2012

Restaurants come and go. Try Stacks in Menlo Park for breakfast.

Re: The War on Breakfast - dabigv13 - 09-29-2012

Yeah Stacks was the go to place when I was a student not too long ago...

Re: The War on Breakfast - CowboyIndian - 09-29-2012

Stickney's and Ken's House of Pancakes were staples of my undergraduate -  I hesitate to say 'career,' how about "experience'? But they served, along with breakfast, different and distinct purposes.

Stickney's existed to provide coffee, food and waitress smart-ass comments at 3 or 4 in the morning of an all-nighter. Ken's is where you went to drop mescaline before a football game.



Re: The War on Breakfast - jacketree - 09-29-2012

I think the Hobees in Belmont just east of 101 off the Ralston exit is still open.  Best Peninsula breakfasts IMO are Sky Kitchen at the San Carlos airport and the Millbrae Pancake House.  I tried the Stacks in RWC, but was really underwhelmed. Maybe it is just that location.

Re: The War on Breakfast - fullmetal - 09-29-2012

Hobees was always crowded when I went.  If they didn't lack for customers...is the cost of business increasing that much?

Re: The War on Breakfast - 82lsju - 09-30-2012

(09-29-2012, 09:21 AM)garvin link Wrote:Dinah's Shack, a venerable place you can find mentioned in Stanford stories going back at least to the late 1930s. It wasn't really a breakfast place, but L'Omelette -- a historic dinner-date place contemporary of Dinah's Shack -- should also be mentioned.

Dinah's Poolside Grill recently closed

http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/09/05/palo-altos-iconic-dinahs-poolside-grill-closing-changing-hands/

and here are the other Hobee's locations

http://www.hobees.com/locations.html

Re: The War on Breakfast - CowboyIndian - 09-30-2012

The Continental breakfast at the Holiday Inn Express in Redwood City....c'est fantastique!

Re: The War on Breakfast - Oasis - 09-30-2012

There used to be a really good breakfast place in Menlo Park called Late for the Train.  One time when I went there they had a fire and had to clear everybody out.