City Bistro (American and Mediterranean) (El Cajon)

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I couldn't figure it out.  Three clients called to make appointments and none of them would be available on a Monday morning, but all of them would be available on any other morning.  I later found out that they knew each other and met for breakfast every Monday, at this location (which had been Country Waffles for about 15 years) which was remodeled and turned into City Bistro in 2016. Across the street from Valley Foods Mediterranean Market  and about 1/2 mile from El Cajon Bistro, this location on East Main Street is another nice, neighborhood restaurant. 
There's a bar seating area along with plenty of tables.  A television is visible from every seat, each set to a different channel (and all on closed captioning). There is a white board with a daily special at the front door. 
 We ordered from the regular menu- the "Crepe Plate" ($11.99) (choice of fruit flavors; you can see this is strawberry) served with two eggs and either two bacon, two sausage or one of each. Each item was quite good, tasty, fresh.  Quality. 
 I ordered the "Pan Handle Scramble" ($10.99) with country potatoes.  The potatoes were nicely fried, randomly chopped and quite tasty.  The scramble-I asked for the meat to be a sausage patty (they make the sausage patties here). It wasn't served on the side.
 On the bottom of the panhandle serving plate was a large, fresh made biscuit, topped with the large Housemade sausage patty, topped with country gravy, topped with a scramble of eggs mixed with red and green bell peppers, onions and cheese and also topped with cheese.  Wow!  This was great, tasty and filling.  
     We returned for a lunch and tried the gyros plate ($11.99) (with a double order of salad instead of rice).  The house made tzatziki was really great as was the house made salad dressing.  The side of pita helped -there was a lot of gyros meat and I made a few little sandwiches in addition to making a gyros salad. 
 The Monte Cristo sandwich ($10.99) was a good choice.  Cheese on both slices of the French bread, plenty of turkey for the sandwich, all cooked in an egg batter: French Toast style.  The choice of sides (fries, fruit or onion rings) was easy.  Th rings were whole onions in a thin beer batter.  Crunchy, light and flavorful.  

A lot of good, fresh, 'from scratch' items here, friendly people working and regular, neighborhood clientele. There are plenty of Mediterranean items on the menu, including basturma at breakfast; we will be trying more in the future.

City Bistro 1248 East Main Street El Cajon, CA 92019 (619)442-4444 Open daily 7 a.m.-2 p.m.

 

Comments

[caninecologne]

Nice variety of foods there. Let's try that basturma soon!

[kat]

everything sounded delicious!

[Cathy]

It's a great little local spot, cc. I do so miss the House of Basturma (in Pasadena; it closed and is now a Taco Shop), but have had the basturma from Valley Foods-across the street...I wonder where City Deli gets theirs.

It was all good, Kat. We will be trying more of the menu soon.

[Soo]

The gyros plate looks good!

[Cathy]

The gyros meat was juicy and flavorful- thicker than what is normally shaved off a spit, Soo. Look at the photo...the edges are sort of rounded or oval shaped. It was a great plate and quite large.