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Reviews
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don’t like to brag, so we’ll let some other folks do the talking…
 S.F. Chronicle
Best Breakfasts in San Francisco: Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer asked if the City lacked great breakfast places, and readers responded, ranking Just For You at #3. We're flattered! (April 2010)
Bargain Bite: “At this tiny Dogpatch storefront, the all-American coffee shop gets a sassy update — Day-Glo punk-rock posters deck the wall, and the menu extols the virtues of grits ‘like you had in prison.’ Late-morning breakfasts are the mainstay at this neighborhood haunt… Whatever you order, be prepared for heaping portions of comfort food. …Save room for the gigantic New Orleans-style beignets sprinkled with powdered sugar.” (December 2006)
“Hangover scramble: oysters, bacon, onion, egg. Yummy and guaranteed to cure *any* hangover. It’s been put to the test many a time and has consistently passed with flying colors. :-)”
“The king of Potrero Hill morning-after breakfast joints.”
 “Best. Beignets. Ever! I don’t know if I can count how many times we have returned to Just For You Cafe….. The waitstaff is very friendly and attentive and always quick to offer a recommendation…. I can’t recommend this place enough. The prices are more than reasonable, and the portions are sizable. Most importantly, the food is wonderful.” (photo: UpTake)
 San Francisco Magazine
“Down Home Breakfast: For denizens of Dogpatch, that stretch
of industrial Third Street between 16th Street and Cesar Chavez Street, Just for You Cafe is the place for the day’s most important meal.
With rock and roll posters on the walls lending a fun, lo-key vibe, the
coffee flows freely and the eggs, whether paired with a pork chop or
stuffed in a burrito with black beans and cream cheese, are cooked just
how you like ‘em. Just For You fries its New Orleans-style beignets to order,
with a thick dusting of powdered sugar bound to wind up all over your
shirt.” (July 2005)
 Sunset Magazine
“Rising along a once-abandoned stretch of San Francisco is the city’s newest — and most improbable — restaurant row…. Brunch at Just For You Cafe involves Creole crab-cakes over perfect poached eggs…” (May 2008) Also mentioned, our good neighbors Piccino, Yield Wine Bar, and Serpentine.
The Rough Guide to San Francisco Restaurants
“Piping
hot plates of straightforward eggs and grills, French toast, hot cakes,
huevos rancheros, and even grits. There are stacks of perfect pancakes,
or eggs served scrambled with chile and cheese on toast, or with hash
browns or fried potatoes… Wondrously tasty crabcakes hint at a Creole
cookout
on the Bayou with a hint of Cayenne and Tabasco… Bowls of healthy
oatmeal and Californian granola are dished with home-baked bread, and
scones and muffins are made every morning.”
“This place is perfect for a gluten-free gal such as myself. Not only do they have gluten-free bread available for any egg dish, but they also have oatmeal pancakes. When prepared perfectly, they are golden brown, crispy on the outside and fluffy inside. Right now however my new favorite breakfast is the French toast, made with gluten-free bread.”
The Noe Valley Voice
“Owner Arienne Landry… presents breakfasts an lunches with
an authentic Southern touch, perfected by Landry when she worked as a culinary
apprentice in New Orleans.”
by Sylvan Brackett, Sue Moore, and Wendy Downing with Slow Food USA
“…A cozy, if a little funky, breakfast spot. This part of the city near Pacific Bell Park has been transformed from an industrial area into an urban office mecca laden with condos. But the food at Just for You has remained consistently good.
Just for You is beloved for its big breakfasts, egg dishes, and fantastic breads. In fact, they make all the baked goods on the premises, including the huge beignets, fried to order and served with a simple dusting of powdered sugar. It’s a little taste of New Orleans that’s sure to get your morning (or afternoon) started off right. They are especially devoted to their pancakes here, offering buckwheat, oatmeal, cornmeal, and buttermilk.
The portions are generous and the prices good. Some people complain that the service can be surly, but it may just be a rumor started by locals to keep the rest of us away.” (page 183)
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Wheat-free
We now carry wheat-free bread baked by Udi’s — made with rice, millet, teff, and quinoa. We also offer oatmeal pancakes and corn tortillas.
BEST OF THE BAY 2010: Reader's Poll BEST BREAKFAST! ”When I need a sweet finger-lickin, stomach-filling something, I settle down on a stool at Southern food joint Just for You Cafe and order a plate of beignets.” (Laura Peach) “Just for You, my favorite Bay Area breakfast place…” (Dan Leone)
“Just For You offers classic breakfast fare with a Southern twist — biscuits, cornbread, grilled catfish filets, or creole crab cakes to go along with your eggs and home fries.”
“Just For You is popular… some of the people eating are the same
ones whose snapshots decorate the walls, but they don’t get special treatment.
Just a down-home, democratic neighborhood slacker cafe.”
Men’s Journal featured our Dogpatch neighborhood as “A Great City’s Gritty Oasis,” with a big ol’ shot of the cafe by local photog Navid Baraty. (June 2009)
 The Potrero Hill View
“Five words: homemade bread and fresh beignets. Deep sigh. This slow food pioneer has such a varied menu, you can even have breakfast for lunch. I like their Po-Boy sandwiches and the Tofu-n-Veggie Stir-Fry because it’s a riot of fresh vegetables and home cooking goodness." (January 2010)
 7x7 San Francisco Magazine
“When Just For You, one of the coziest breakfast spots in the city, moved
last year from its counter-seat digs on Potrero Hill down to the Dogpatch
area off Third Street, I was a little worried. It went from being sweetly
diminutive to twice the size. But the new space has more room and,
more importantly, enough room for a deep-fat fryer — which means they
could start making beignets, something that Arienne Landry (the owner
and a native of Lafayette, Louisiana) says she’s been wanting to do
for years. The squares of fried dough puff up to be feather-light and
perfectly hollow inside. They’re best eaten hot from the fryer and
dusted with a heavy-handed shake of powdered sugar.”
About.com named us the 2nd Best Breakfast in San Francisco. “Their pancakes cross grain barriers, with a selection of buckwheat, oatmeal and cornmeal to choose from. If you like longanisa (the Filipino sausage), Just For You Cafe offers it on the menu, along with homemade breads and grits with your eggs.”
 “Owner of Delice Catering and co-owner of DeLessio Market and Bakery (1695 Market St., S.F.), James Faber… juggles his business and family lives while keeping a lookout for food finds in the city… His favorites: ‘The po’boy sandwich from Just for You Café is a sloppy sandwich that tastes gourmet. It may be better than the New Orleans version because of the fresh California produce.’” (2006)
“If you haven’t had Just For You’s cornmeal pancakes, you haven’t lived.”… “Some of my favorites are the cajun catfish, huevos rancheros, and oh
dear god the home made corned beef hash. Where else can you have all
that and gaze up at authentic Bottom of the Hill show posters?”
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