City Girl Cafe, Cambridge, MA

The best homefries ever. I really didn't care much for the rest of the plate, but, OMG.... next time, I'll just order several sides of homefries and call it a brunch! There is a funny story around this... On a previous brunch at City Girl Cafe, we arrived almost at closing time, and they told us they had run out of homefries. My look of utterly sadness and disappointment must have worked on them, because they ended up bringing some they had scraped up from the pan. But apparently, the waiter "made a mistake" and brought the order that belonged to the woman in the next table, who had also begged for some homefries -and had arrived before us-... I realized what had happened before anyone else, and I proceeded to put my fingers all over the plate and eat as many homefries as possible before the poor woman could even say anything... So, you've been warned! I'm willing to go to war for City Girl Cafe's olive oil and rosemary roasted potatoes!!!
As for the rest of the meal.... I ordered the sandwich montecristo. Turkey and prosciutto with fontina cheese and fig aioli between two slices of unsweetened french toast. The prosciutto was paper-thin and barely there. The bread would have been ok, had I known it would be soaked up in egg and milk. I was looking forward to a crispy ciabatta or baguette, rather than a soggy loaf. Having said that, though, a special mention to the fig aioli which had the perfect combination between sweet and savory, and accompanied the sandwich without overpowering it.
The other brunchers seemed to be generally happy with their choices. They were all items from the new brunch menu, so hopefully there will be many more weekends to enjoy them. Diego had a scrambled egg and goat cheese sandwich, Sean French toasts, Jacob a brunch sandwich and the adventurous Jenni ordered brunch pizza (fried eggs, bacon and potatoes on top of a pizza crust) that was described as "weird", "interesting" and "out of this world" and was eaten until the last crumb. In addition, Jacob had the auspicious rosemary lemonade, but he wasn't able to taste the rosemary infusion at all. Luckily the lemonade was very nice as it was, so he did not feel the need to send it back.

The prefect brunch? Maybe not... But the perfect homefries? You bet!