It's Andy Fish!

On a recent Saturday we headed over to ROOTS & PRESS Bookstore and Cafe over on Shrewsbury Street– as you can see it’s across from the Boulevard Diner which is honestly MORE of my kind of breakfast place but that’s neither here nor there.

The Cafe itself is pretty large, and on a Saturday late morning we were able to get a table right away, although it’s not quite clear that you’re just supposed to grab a table. Lucky for me my wife understood how it works even though she’d never been there before.

There is a QR code on the wall, I know a lot of you are going to hate that– and you place your order and somehow through a miraculous means your food and beverage is brought out to you by a very pleasant wait staff.

My wife got a giant plate of some kind of egg and toast thing that had tomatoes and cilantro and literally hundreds of other ingredients while I got an egg and cheese with bacon on an everything bagel and an Arnold Palmer. She got a banana macha hot tea thing that smelled great and was bright green.

She enjoyed her huge pile of eggs, although she barely made a dent in it, and I did what I could to eat the egg sandwich (having just polished off 1 and ½ donuts over coffee at home) which was very good, although I’d pass on the bacon next time it was too much of a mix of undercooked and overcooked, I bet there was a vegan chef back there hurling bacon onto the grill concerned they would get too close.

The food bill with tip was $50 which would normally be outrageous but I’ve been to restaurants post 2024 and I realize nothing is normal right now.

The bookstore is connected next door, and there is yet MORE seating and a coffee bar over there- I think I would expand the books a bit– they had a nice selection but it was hard to shop with all the browsers, Veronica picked up a nicely designed book on languages and we enjoyed our visit. We’ll be back even though the Bouley is only across the street (you can imaging my cultured wife is not a fan so much of their old time diner methods.