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Just For You Cafe 732 22nd Street (at 3rd Street) San Francisco CA 94107 tel. (415) 647-3033 • map |
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We don’t like to brag, so we’ll let some other folks do the talking. Here are some bits of reviews that have been written about Just For You:  Sunset MagazineMay 2008: “Rising along a once-abandoned stretch of San Francisco is the city’s newest — and most improbable — restaurant row. Until recently, the Dogpatch neighborhood, just south of AT&T Park, was best known as the location of Hells Angels headquarters. But suddenly, artists are emerging from their lofts for a glass of biodynamically grown wine, and locals are crossing town for epic breakfasts. Now that Muni’s Third Street light-rail line is running, out-of-towners are catching on…. Brunch at Just For You Cafe involves Creole crab-cakes over perfect poached eggs…” (Also mentioned: Piccino, Yield Wine Bar, and Serpentine.) San Francisco ChronicleDecember 21, 2006: “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, especially on weekends, when locals jot their names on a list and happily hobnob on the sidewalk while waiting… and waiting… for their names to be called. The menu hews closely to classic diner fare, with whole pages devoted to "eggs, eggs and more eggs" and four types of pancakes (all $4.50), buttermilk, cornmeal, buckwheat and oatmeal. Whatever you order, be prepared for heaping portions of comfort food. Monstrous three-egg scrambles ($7.95-$8.95) overflow with fillings of your choice, from spinach to chorizo, and fluffy French toast ($4.50) elevates the restaurant's just-OK homemade bread. Stuffed with eggs, cream cheese and black beans, the enormous breakfast burrito bursts from its flour tortilla. It's all smothered with a searing New Mexico green chile sauce. Although dishes for the diet-minded do exist — from Nicoise salad ($9.95) to the Tofu-n-Veggie Stir-Fry ($8.25) — don't bother. Instead, save room for the gigantic New Orleans-style beignets sprinkled with powdered sugar (three for $4).” 7x7 The Very Best of San Francisco 2006
SF Survey“Wull, Bless My Grits, I thought I’d died and gone to Breakfast Heaven. This is the place you'd hope to find on a trip deep in the Heartland but rarely do. Immediately order a plate of exquisite, spectacular beignets with coffee while perusing the menu. Then pick some of their fabulous homemade bread slices to go with whatever entree. I picked cinnamon raisin bread, which was as good as my Mama's, along with the delicious pork chop, eggs and grits. Whoever cannot appreciate this place should just stick to Denny’s. Others be patient, it’s well worth the wait. (Wish I was there now). The Food Is Like Mama Made, Fabulous Meat, Spectacular Homemade Bread… purrfect breakfast. Dream of New Orleans.” Beverly Dubrin’s Where-To-Guide, March-April 2005“JUST FOR YOU CAFE serves hearty homemade breakfasts, lunches, and weekend brunch. On weekends, the line waiting for a table can be long, but it is always convivial… sign up on the pad of paper outside and chat with the crowd while waiting for your table. JUST FOR YOU has been a neighborhood favorite for about 15 years, getting its start in 1991 on nearby Potrero Hill and then, in 2002, moving to Dogpatch. The menu, with most dishes priced well under $10, includes eggs prepared many ways, pancakes and french toast, New Orleans and Mexican specialties, sandwiches, salads, hot plates, homemade pie, and daily specials. New Orleans-style Beignets are the specialty of the house. An early bird breakfast is offered weekdays before 8:30 a.m. Kids are welcome and can even order a Mickey Mouse Waffle or a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich from the kids’ menu. For lunch there is a wide variety of sandwiches and burgers and such specialties as Po’ Boy sandwiches, Grilled Pork Chops, and a daily Pasta special. The breads are baked in house. The weekend brunch menu features a sampling from the weekday menu plus several more elaborate egg dishes, including Eggs Benedict. One of my favorite signs in the dining room says, ‘Beware of Pickpockets and Loose Women.’” Yelp!
San Francisco Magazine, July 2005"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. But don’t worry: round these parts, everyone’s too neighborly to mind.”
Citysearch“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??” |
The Slow Food Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Areaby Sylvan Brackett, Sue Moore, and Wendy Downing with Slow Food USA
“In the area formerly known as Dogpatch, and now called the Third Street Corridor, is 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) San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate“The king of Potrero Hill morning-after breakfast joints.” San Francisco Bay Guardian“Just for You, my favorite Bay Area breakfast place…” SF Weekly“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.” 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.” The City: San Francisco’s Magazine“…a place where people can remain individuals, kick back, spin on counter chairs and still feel loved. What’s best about Just For You are the three kinds of pancakes: buckwheat, cornmeal, or buttermilk (with or without delicious fresh fruit)… Of course, the all-important cups of joe are great, too.”
San Francisco Sentinel“Just For You is a delightful place, presided over by the women who originally created the Crescent City Cafe on Haight Street, an authentically New Orleans-style restaurant… New Orleans-style food fans will not find Just For You wanting, with Creole crab cakes and Louisiana hot sausage available. Great food, excellent service, and fun. Highly recommended.”
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.”
Essen & Trinken magazine(from Germany, in German!)
Girljock magazine: interview with Susie Bright“Favorite restaurants: Zuni and Just For You. (Arienne Landry is Susie’s favorite cook.)”
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.” |
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“Owner of Delice Catering and co-owner of DeLessio Market and Bakery (1695 Market St., 415-552-5559), 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.’”
”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. :-)”
