Hobee’s Stanford Restaurant
67 Town and Country Village, El Camino at Embarcadero, Palo Alto
Hobee’s is a small chain of family restaurants. There are eight altogether between Redwood City and North San Jose. It is one of my favorite places for breakfast. When we lived in Sunnyvale we frequented their branch on Matilda near 101.
Today though we tried the Stanford Hobee’s on El Camino. The food was up to the standard we have come to expect but the surroundings and décor were a little different. Tom had one of their specials - Spicy Hot Links Eye Opener ($9.50) and I had my normal – oatmeal ($4.75). For me this is one of the best places for oatmeal. For starters they have an oatmeal bar so you can have as much as you want and can keep going back. They have all the fixings as well – brown sugar, cinnamon, raisins, coconut, almond flakes and walnuts. Today they had mixed dried fruit as well; Sunnyvale normally has cranberries. There is also a plate of quartered cookies or small slices of coffee cake to help yourself to as well.
There were several things we did not like about this restaurant. When we were shown to our table we asked about the door immediately behind my chair and were told it was not used. Well, it was used – three times – and it was a bit annoying.
Hobee’s in Sunnyvale is brighter mainly because of the windows all the way round. As we sat at the back Stanford Hobee’s they was no natural light at all. In Sunnyvale they have lots of booths. I didn’t see any at Stanford. It also seemed a little less room between the tables.
My main gripe though is the restrooms. There are two Unisex restrooms but can only comment on the one I used. It was grubby and in a poor state of repair. It urgently needs a makeover. There were no finishing touches to it, not even a pot of plastic flowers, and no pictures on the walls.
On the whole though we enjoyed our meal but maybe we will stick to Sunnyvale in the future.
July 29 2007 | Breakfast Log | No Comments »
