Tappi's Cafe (Rancho San Diego)

mmm-yoso!!! is a food blog.  Cathy has a post to write today while Kirk is just not able to write much about food.

So, this is another one of our "Oh, Look!"/unplanned finds.  The Mister and I were going to shop at the Ralphs in Rancho San Diego and, as always, looking for a place to get a light lunch so we would not walk in and make excessive food purchases.  Right across the parking lot... 
 The small signage with an interesting font was intriguing.  Tappi's opened in October 2022.  
 The menu, more intriguing.  There were South of the Border and Mediterranean categories and some items with Japanese names, along with a good breakfast menu, (which has Japanese souffle pancakes as well as German and Ube pancakes available).  Fusion? Con-fusion?  Simply good food?   
 We asked what the 'Soup of the Day' was.  The answer was both tomato and broccoli cheese. Yes! One of each, please.

One size ($5 each), quite large.  The tomato 'soup' was extremely thick, filled with seeds from tomatoes and flavors of bell peppers, onion, maybe cumin.  It did not need any additional seasoning.  At some point, we determined it must be the sauce used for the shakshuka from the menu and were very happy.  The broccoli cheese had great flavor.  It was a thin soup, definitely home made and filled with not-mushy, not-crisp/raw broccoli.  Also very good.   We decided to try the Khachapuri with kielbasa ($12).  Plenty of cheese. filling fresh made crusty chewy bread, thin slices of a garlic-y kielbasa.  A sizable meal (we took two slices home).  
 I had seen Kunafa  (crunchy, sweet, cheesy, creamy) at the bottom of the menu and knew I was going to order it.  Our nice waitress said they were 'trying something new' and offering the kunafa as a sandwich for $11 (the large piece of kunafa by itself is $10). Yes.  The 'bread' is a sweetbread- an eggy, cardamom flavored, sesame seed topped delight.  Separately or together, each bite was wonderful.   We did take half of this home, too, to have with coffee.

We will be trying more of the menu, soon.

Tappi's Cafe  12098 Fury Lane (at Jamacha) El Cajon 92019 Open daily 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Website

Comments

[kat]

everything sounds delicious

[Cathy]

Everything was really tasty, kat. We look forward to trying more of the menu.

[Som Tommy]

That looks good

[Cathy]

Everything was very good, ST. The menu is interesting and has a bunch of things I want to try.

[SD Julie]

Based on your review, I’m meeting an El Cajon friend there for lunch next week!

[Cathy]

Have a great lunch, SD Julie! The Turkish menu is really interesting and The Mister and I are planning our return orders.