Los Gatos Cafe Downtown

Huge omelettes, homemade bakery items, fresh-squeezed juices. Open only until 3pm, this breakfast cafe is the absolute best! It serves a large variety of omelettes (its specialty), pancakes and crepes, and my favorite, Papas Santa Cruz. Papas Santa Cruz consists of breakfast potatoes, slices of chicken, guacamole, plenty of cheese and sour cream. Most everything comes with a bakery item. My fave? Strawberry shortcake. You must have their fresh apple juice. Never had it better anywhere else. more

Los Gatos Cafe has a line outside it, every day that it is open. There's got to be something going on at a place that popular, right? Well, there is. The food is top notch for a breakfast joint, and they offer a plethora of choices and options, which they *always* get right. That said, there is room for improvement. The shape of the restaurant does limit the opportunities somewhat, but they've managed to cram as many tables as possible into the space, taking it a step past "cozy" to "crowded". Waitstaff will brush past you taking food to other tables, busboys will retrieve dishware a few feet from your food, and the whole place feels just pushed past the edge, which is really a pity, because if it weren't for that, I'd give this place top marks. more