Town's End

Last weekend the family and I met up for brunch at Town's End Restaurant & Bakery. The place was completely packed on a Saturday afternoon, but the food was (mostly) delish.

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Where: 2 Townsend Street, San Francisco

The Scene: Neighborhood bakery serving up baskets of amazing mini muffins

Delight: Baked goods and breakfast items

Disappointment: Club sandwich and the noise

There was no wait when we arrived but Town's End was buzzing. Our waiter was quite sweaty, likely from working hard. He skipped the pleasantries and went straight into drink orders. The service was prompt and the mini muffins that they bring complimentary are to die for. My family and I plowed through that basket in record time. Too bad they didn't offer us a second basket.

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My dad and I ordered the club sandwich and the rest of the table ordered breakfast items. When the breakfast items arrived my mouth was watering. Huge stacks of pancakes, fresh eggs and bacon. I couldn't wait for my sandwich. When my club came I was thoroughly disappointed. The sandwich was swimming in vast amounts of empty space on the plate. Compared to the equally priced breakfast items, the sandwich was tiny and frankly quite tasteless. It came with what looked like hash browns (some fried potato thing) but mine was cold and mushy so I didn't eat it. I should have ordered the breakfast.


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Town's End was incredibly loud. So much so that my parents could barely hear the conversation. I suppose that's what happens when you have a popular place that probably has a few too many tables squeezed into a small space. It was a shame it was so loud; nearly inhibiting brunch time conversation.

I will definitely return to Town's End though. (It's only a block from my brothers apartment.) I had a bite of the pancakes and I can say without a doubt that I will be ordering that upon my return (and possibly the eggs benny).