Coulis

I noticed today that the Gambit had a rather upbeat piece about Coulis recently. I am not sure it was a glowing review, but it was pretty close to it. Frankly, I am baffled by this. I was really excited about Coulis because it is a block from my house. When its predecessor The Bluebird Cafe was closing, I was just moving into town and I was sad to see a popular breakfast place so close to my house disappear before I ever even got a chance to know it. I ate there my first weekend in town, and then it was gone. When the cheerful yellow building sprouted a painted sign of bacon and eggs, I was really excited. How could you go wrong with a sign of painted bacon and eggs?

The menu is a bit weird, but really, the service and the food was just really bad. I can't recall all that went wrong, but I know something was sent back and Brian and I just don't do that. Ever. It may have been one of two times in my life that I did it. The coffee was undrinkable. The bacon was charred to inedibility. I was simply shocked at how bad it was. Recently, my brother mentioned that he also went to Coulis and was dumbfounded at its utter horribleness. Why is there a line there on the weekends? Desperation?

When I read the article, I had a brief twinge of wanting to give it another shot. I quickly came to my senses, though. Surrey's is just too good to put up with inedible bacon.

Photo courtesy of the blog NORA in NOLA which, incidentally, happened to also like Coulis.