Lucia's. Say it like, Loooosha's. Like you've just gotten lip injections and it's a big secret. Like you drove your BMW here and someone else parked it for you. Say it like you don't care, but you do.
Lucia's is a treat. A perfect piece of proper smack dab in the middle of Uptown. You can fill your wedding registry at CB2, buy your invites at paper source and relax with a bottle of champs while you plan your honeymoon in Barbados. Two blocks down people are having 2-for-1 rails in their IPA-stained, walk-of-shame clothes. Not we. We clean-underwear fancy.
We sat at a two top on the adorable sidewalk patio sprinkled with puppies and promptly ordered a greyhound and a black coffee. I flinched a bit at the $9 price tag, but the fresh-squeezed juice made me want to drop billz. The coffee is a Morningstar special blend and it's goooood. Like, I-don't-drink-black-coffee-but-I-would-drink-this-black good.
Peep the bubbles list. Some day when I get rich and famous from this blog I will come here and order the Hebrart. Fuck it, I'll order two.
The menu is always based on seasonal and local ingredients. Today it was full of wants. We started with the pop-overs and hashbrowns with chives and sea salt. Dayum.
As we dined we were amused by various conversations–the old couple behind us trying to decided what to order for their dogs (they ended up with scrambled eggs) and the young-ins next to us recalling the previous days drunkin' festivities on Lake Minnetonka. We talked about what we might do that day–beaching, boating... Well, we didn't find a beach or a boat so we drank a bottle of cava and watched episodes of the Real Housewives of Bevery Hills. We fancy.
Oh, the food. Insert chorus of angels. Above is the asparagus Gruyere fritatta, so creamy and delicious. And below is the scramble with turkey sausage, peppers, squash and arugula on house made english muffin. Nicki wonders why arugula is just so damn good. I say, because god made it.
So much dogs. And hats.
Y'all, Lucia's is a fucking dream. Why aren't you there RIGHT NOW?! Go on... Git...
