Caffe Barney

Welcome back to Eat My Brains! This week, we have a quaint, little cafe in the west end-ish area of Vancouver. Caffe Barney is located on Granville Street and 14th Avenue (2975 Granville Street) and is snuggled amongst the clothing stores and such along Granville. This week was a full house, as The Team was joined by Cams roommates, Emily and Selim, along with Rozis friend, Linnea.

Caffe Barney reminded me a lot of a pub, or something along those lines, as Kimmy and I stepped into it. A cozy, wooden interior with several paintings and pieces of art lining the walls. Rozi, Cam and his roomies were already sitting at a table when we arrived, so we were immediately seated. In no time, we were each brought a coffee ($2.25 with free refills) and had our eyes on a couple of menus. Within a while of us sitting down, Lennea showed up and took to looking at her menu. After a few minutes, we had all decided on our breakfasts and placed our orders with the server, a pleasant, young lady. With our orders in, we all went back to our banter and conversations and began our short wait for the food to arrive. One coffee refill and about 7 minutes later, our plates began to arrive. Here's how things shaped up:

Jesse - Omelette. Chorizo sausage, mozza, mushrooms and tomatoes, served with toast and hash browns. ($9.50 / Total bill $12.34)

Kimmy - Florentina Benny. Spinach and tomato, served with hash browns. ($10 / Total bill: $12.85)

Rozi - Bagel ($2.00) and Fruit Salad ($7), along with extra avocado ($2). (Total bill: $14.44)

Cam - Eggs Benny. Shrimp, tomato, avocado, served with hash browns. ($10 / Total bill: $12.85)Emily - Exactly the same as Cam. Roomies think alike?

Selim - Santorini scrambler. Tomatoes, onions, etc, served with toast and hash browns. ($9.50 / Total bill: $12.34)

Linnea - Omelette. Asparagus and mushrooms, served with toast and hash browns. ($9.50 / Total bill: $12.34)

After Cam snapped the mugshots of the food, we took to our breakfasts like a pack of rabid wombats. No, I've never seen a wombat, let alone a pack of rabid ones, but I'm sure that it would look a lot like did at that moment. I'm not sure what kind of bread they used, but as toast, it was amazing and flavourful. The hash browns were done to perfection, as well. Now, the omelette was the only point of dismay for me during this meal. It was big and full of delicious ingredients, but it was lacking severely in terms of actual flavour. The individual components tasted as the should, but the eggs and omelette overall was just plain bland. Nevertheless, I gobbled it down, with the help of the salt and pepper shaker, and cleared my plate. As for everyone else, I heard nothing but good comments from them. It seemed that my omelette was the lone dissenter in the bunch, which is awesome, considering the amount of food that we ordered. Oh yes, and we did receive several coffee refills and the server was very attentive to us, as well.

Overall, The Team scored big with Caffe Barney this week. The team and I agree that we'd come back again, and would recommend it to any of our friends. I might just try something other than a omelette next time.

Stay sharp, kids
Jesse