union tea cafe – olean, ny

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good morning

today i am going to tell you about an egg benedict what i ate in olean. olean is a city where there are many traffic circles that you can drive on.

this is one such circle

it is the biggest city in cattaraugus county which is part of appalachia even though it is in new york. many people do not know this but you can look it up on line!!

jcc stands for jamestown community college which is one of the features that olean has

olean is also close to many beautiful nature places, and it is home to a mall that is sadly not very busy, but i think that it is very interesting to go in and look around. another thing that many people do not know is that malls can be very peaceful places if there are not very many people there. i think that the mall in olean is beautiful in a way all its own.

if you would like to know more about this then you can go to visit the olean times herald or i will tell you about it if you ask me to, because i also think that malls are very interesting to know about

i think that anyone who can visit cattaraugus country should go to visit. even if there are not so many things to do as in a **really big city** like buffalo, it can be a very nice place. i even went to the library in town which was very interesting because it had an aquarium and historical references about the region and many decorations that were older than many people you know. i did not take any pictures in the library because the rule to follow when you are in a library is do not disturb!! so you will have to go and see it yourself.

but this is not a blog about very nice libraries!! this is a blog about eggs benedict and the places where you can eat them. and the place i went to eat my egg benedict on my day in olean was the union tea cafe.

as you can see this is a very nice looking place. inside it is also very nice but on the day that i went it was **very busy** and it is a small cafe so i could not take pictures without taking pictures of people who maybe did not want to be photographed. but there are many pictures on google you can go and look at, and as you will learn this cafe has an english theme. many times i do not like to go to places like this but at union tea cafe this theme was not over done and it actually looked very nice.

one other interesting fact about this cafe is that you are supposed to take a menu and look at it and decide what you would like to eat before you go up to the counter to place your order, and there is a sign that says this. this is a **very good idea** but it was also where my trouble began!! there were not any menus near the sign so people were going up to the counter and figuring it out there. this was difficult because there were many different foods to choose from, which caused a delay!!

but i do not mind waiting in line so much. if you are a person who hates waiting in line then you are in for some trouble in your life because you will have to do it a lot!! but the people who take your order and bring you your egg benedict at union tea cafe had been working hard helping many other people on the day that i went and they seemed very unhappy to keep doing it. this is also sometimes alright because do you like going to your job and working very hard all the time? especially on a very busy day when people are not always nice to you?? i am sure that you do not, so please forgive them for having a bad day.

even though i waited in line for a little more time than i expected my egg benedict came very quickly!! i had also ordered a rooibos chai which is one of many teas that you can drink at union tea cafe. i will say that this was **very tasty** and a little sweet and spicy. i will go back to union tea cafe on a better day to try other types of tea, because this was a very different thing that you will not find in other places!!

i think that three minutes is how long you should let the tea sit?? but i do not drink tea very often so you tell me!!

another thing that you should also know is that when you go to have an eggy benny at union tea cafe you can have it on a waffle instead of an english muffin. this is very innovative. but i decided to have an english muffin because eggs benedict is very good already, and i did not want to change it on that day.

wow!! it looks very good and the blue plate is very nice. as you can see there is lots of hollandaise sauce, which is usually a very good thing because this is the best part of the egg benedict!!

but sadly i must tell you that the very first thing you will notice about this eggy benny is a smell (which you cannot notice through a web site). the smell is vinegar!! i do not know if the people who made the hollandaise sauce used vinegar on it but if so they should not have. hollandaise sauce is a very simple but special sauce that has three main ingredients and those ingredients are egg yolk and butter and lemon juice, but not (!) vinegar!!

when you eat the eggy benny this does not improve very much unless you are a person who is very excited about salt and vinegar chips. i do like salt and vinegar chips but you would need to be very excited about them to enjoy this egg benedict. besides vinegar flavor the hollandaise sauce also had a very strange spice flavor. in a normal egg benedict you would want there to be a very good amount of hollandaise sauce but because this time it tasted like vinegar, this turned out to be a bad thing!! this was the very first time in many years that i have eaten eggs benedict for breakfast that i wanted the hollandaise sauce to be less.

i am also very sad to tell you that the other parts of the egg benedict were not very good. another very important part of an egg benedict is of course the egg!! eggs benedict includes a poached egg but this time i think the egg was almost soft boiled. when you poach an egg you can use water that is almost boiling and swirl the water and then put the egg in so the white goes around the yolk like it is giving it a gentle hug. this was not done and i wonder if they gave the egg a very hot bath instead, because when you start to eat the yolk does not go on your muffin or on your ham.

i would like to tell you more about the ham, but because of the taste that the hollandaise sauce had i could not taste the ham. it looked very good and i think that it was the best part of this eggy benny. it was tender and i think that it was ok. the muffin was not so good. i do not know if the people who made this egg benedict decided to toast the muffin but i think that they did not. the muffin was like a dough but it did not taste very bad, if you do not mind the texture.

i could not eat any more of this egg benedict!!

you may be surprised to learn that i did not finish my egg benedict (!). this is a very rare thing to happen because i think that all eggy bennies are very good in their own ways. but this time i think that i have changed my mind because if you order an egg benedict that maybe has vinegar on it, it will not be very good.

i think that i will go to union tea cafe another time to see if it is different on a day that is not so busy. this is a cafe that has many very good reviews and i think that it is possible that a mistake happened on this day. if this was on purpose then i am very sad. next time i think that i will try the egg benedict with a waffle to see if this was just a bad hollan-day (!).

however union tea cafe is still a very good place to go if you are a person who enjoys many different teas and you would like to sit outside on a very nice day. i do not think that this should stop you from going there at all but please be careful!! i would rate this more eggs if this was a blog web site about cafes but it is actually about eggy bennies and so i cannot do it. i will rate it an extra one half egg because even though i did not like the hollandaise sauce they did put a very good amount.

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(the) captain(‘s room) cafe – geneva, ny

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good morning

this is a blog post about a place that i actually went to last month, i did not have a blog yet but i wrote down very good notes about this egg benedict (and the restaurant) so that i could tell you all about it.

the first thing that i would like to tell you is that i do not know what the name of this cafe is. on some web sites it is called “the captain’s room” or “the captain’s room cafe” and then on other web sites it is called “captain’s cafe.” even on their facebook.com social media page they are called “captains cafe” but the url says “captainsroomcafe.” you can go and look at it yourself if you would like to try to learn more about this mystery.

the reasons i went to geneva (which is a town in new york that is very different than the **very large city** in switzerland that you might have heard about online or from planning a trip to europe) was because i travel all over for my job to visit people who need my help. geneva is a very nice place near a lake and many places to drink pretty good wine and have a meal so i am always sure to stop and visit.

(please be aware: this time i forgot to take pictures of the lake because i was having a fun time after my work was done. i am very sorry but the next time i go i will take more pictures so you can see this very neat town.)

i found an advertisement for this cafe which said that they had different kinds of food with cbd in them. this is not a blog about cbd but it is something i have tried and for many people it is helpful when they have anxiety or other problems. the problem is that sometimes cbd foods do not taste so good. at captain’s cafe i had one of the cookies with cbd and it was very tasty, fluffy, and sweet, even better than most cookies that do not have cbd.

however this is not a blog about cookies! this is a blog about eggy bennies. here is what i can tell you about that.

**please note** this is not a photography blog and sometimes this means the pictures will look like this

as you can see i was very hungry and could not take a picture before i started eating the egg benedict. this was a very normal egg benedict because it was eggs and ham and hollandaise sauce on top of an english muffin. it is very appreciated when you can get a regular eggy benny without anything too fancy because many places do not do this. but the captain’s cafe does, so i was very pleased.

you can probably notice by looking at the egg benedict that the hollandaise sauce is **very thick**. there were even some places where it was a little bit congealed which did not look very pretty even though it tasted great.

do not ever judge a benedict by this!! it is deceptive and can be delicious

everyone knows that the hollandaise sauce is the most important part of the eggy benny. at this cafe the hollandaise sauce was the star. the flavor was just right because it was tangy and creamy, and all the ingredients came together in a very good way. even the color was very good. the only thing you can complain about is the texture, but that is not so important when it tastes very good.

the stars are decorations from me, they do not come on the egg benedict

you will also notice that the ham on this eggy benny in particular is **very thick** and steaky but again you should not be deceived. the ham was tender and not too chewy, and it was also not too salty. i would also rate the ham as very good. it was cooked so it was tender and you do not have to worry that your egg benedict will fall apart because of trouble cutting through the ham.

you might also notice that the egg is not leaking when you cut through it (!). this is ok because it was still a very good poached egg and the yolk does leak out when you cut a little deeper. you could still get a very good bite from this eggy benny where you could taste all the flavors at the same time including the yolk from the poached egg.

very soon after i started eating this egg went from good to gone. it was not the prettiest one in the world but that did not matter on a busy day when i was very hungry and only wanted to eat my favorite breakfast!!

as for the cafe and the people who make the egg benedict and bring it to you, they are very nice even though their cafe is very busy. geneva has many good places to eat but this is one of the popular places to go and i think this is because they will always fill up your coffee so that you can have more energy for the day. you can sit outside if you want but if it is hot out watch out for wasps!!

overall this was a very good egg benedict. if you ever have to go to geneva for your job or for any other reason then you should try to get this eggy benny at the captain’s cafe, and if you are still hungry you should try the other treats they have.

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good morning

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good morning world

i wanted to write a blog on the web about my favorite breakfast which is eggs benedict.

these are the reasons why eggs benedict is the best breakfast food:

1. eggs benedict has hollandaise sauce. it is commonly known all over that hollandaise sauce is the greatest condiment. it is made of egg yolks and butter and lemons. this means that you can eat eggs as a condiment on your eggs.

2. eggs benedict can be made in many different ways. a regular eggy benny (this means eggs benedict for people who are in the know) is built by putting ham on top of the muffin, then a poached egg on top of the ham, and then hollandaise sauce on all of it (**important** if you are a very good chef you will put a lot of hollandaise sauce on, i know this because i am an expert, and this is why i have a blog about it). i have been all over and eaten all different eggy bennies and sometimes they have salmon instead of ham, or have other ingredients like vegetables. sometimes a creative chef will use a waffle and not an english muffin (!). this means it is also the most innovative breakfast.

3. when you start eating the egg, the egg yolk will go everywhere, which means that it will go on your hash browns also. the hollandaise can also get on your hash browns. both of these things will make your hash browns taste much better. it must be noted that plain potatoes are not a very good breakfast. this is why they are commonly put next to the eggy benny, so that they can taste good by accident.

4. most of the time when you go to buy your eggs benedict you will be in a place that has other breakfasts too. this puts your dining companions at ease but if they try to order eggs florentine please redirect them, there are many other times when you can eat vegetables, but many restaurants will not give you an eggy benny in the evening.

in this blog i will tell you a little bit about the places i go to find the very best eggy bennies. most of the time these will be places in the state where i live (which is new york). i will tell you about the people that gave me an egg benedict and i will also sometimes tell you about the town where i ate the egg benedict. after that i will get down to business (!) and i will tell you how good it is using a very rigorous system where i rate the egg benedict on a scale of one egg to five eggs.

thank you for reading my blog and if you would like to tell me about eggs what you have eaten please send me an email to goodeggymorning@gmail.com