A few of my favorite things: my wife, huge cameras you can walk inside, the Pacific ocean, eggs benedict with a thin lemon hollandaise, and cities, their stories and symbols conjoined in my birthday breakfast this year! Great spot for breakfast. Proof that heaven and earth still co-mingle. And this old school San Fran cafe, always makes me feel I’m in a movie from the 40’s. Or in a jazz song.

Being with my wife, having breakfast on the sea, and huge walk in cameras—these are a few of my favorite things….

This year’s birthday breakfast needed to contain eggs benedict with fresh crab, by the sea they came from of course! Decided to couple breakfast with bloody Mary’s, heavy on the horse radish and chili peppers, and fresh shrimp cocktail (Old school San Fran-breakfast, cocktails, fresh fish, good bread and eggs, all sourced close by-simple).

Each year i make a pilgrimage to this huge walk in pin hole camera. You just don’t see them every day. This one’s left over from a by gone era. Don’t get me started on this old camera obscura and how it works, basic early photography, before it was even cool, or when it was even cooler. Walking inside a camera is like a dream to me! Just considering perception makes me happy!

And literally we were seated right over the sea. And this is not a high end place, but more of a upscale dinner really, but the view makes it holistic for me. Plus I feel like i’m traveling in time. I would pick it for a last supper or breakfast!

The Cliff house has had five incarnations, the second and third are pictured here; the third was over the top to say the least! Lots of strange fires and ship wrecks! And the first radio signal was sent from here! Before that, morris code. It has a history of new forms of communication (hum…that seems to have continued). Anyways, lots of urban lore around it, but has been around since the late 1800’s on and off. Contains lots of symbols of this city. Fun delving and probing them today over breakfast. I like getting to know cities through their symbolic life.

Plus, i sat next to Robin William’s signed photo. We drove through his tunnel last week. I still miss and respect Robin! He used to live nearby the cafe many years ago.

Always nice to have that old school san fran vibe by the sea, and eggs benedict and the sea are proof that heaven and earth still interface! Anyways, these are a few of my favorite things. Nice birthday breakfast!

And to share life! I used to come here by myself when I lived out here, it’s much more meaningful to bring my wife! And we both love the sea! Her scottish blood, mine irish, we just feel Peace with its majesty! And we both love breakfast! Why not breakfast by the sea!!!