Blades

“Breakfast is always better with Guns & Roses” – a damn gen- wait, no, Dave. It was Dave who said that.

Blades is new-ish. Although if you tell an old-timer that you’re going there, afore described old timer will wax reminiscent about some other former diner/restaurant called Blades, in the same building, where Pomodoro is now, that was “the place to be.”

True to its name, there are blades, blades everywhere, on the wall, on another wall, on a third wall. If vampires ever decide to try to take over Blades, they’re have a rude awakening when the patrons, bikers and truckers all, take the blades off of the wall at Blades and use the blades to decaffeinate the afore described vampires. Really, former place was, and the current place is, called “Blades” because it is in the old Huther Brothers Saw manufacturing plant. Our waitress informed us that there were just tons of old saws and blades in the basement, and also people around the community maybe donated some?

There were also lots of TVs in the place, which seemed a little off. Huge windows look out onto University Avenue, so you can snicker at the people stuck in traffic while you eat. But, lo! you are oblivious to the fact that you’ll soon be joining them. But, haha! you’ll have a stomachful of the sub-sequentially-described foods.

Anyway, if you look at Yelp, you’ll see two things that you NEED to order. So we did:

The Abocado: bacon, avocado, and Monterey Jack topped with sour cream. It was hearty and delicious. It was very savory, not too bacony (happily). You millennials out there will appreciate the avocado. Because you like anything avocado, right? All it has to have is avocado and you’ll go hog wild.

I betcha didn’t even realize that it’s spelled “abocado” with a “b” as the second letter, didja? We think that b is for bacon. Or the Qwerty-keyboard user’s finger slipped and like just keeps slipping?

Side note: the potato add-on was a wise choice, but they were a little underdone (par exemple, Bo’s fork failed to penetrate one of the potatoes and the afore described potato went a-flyin’). Good, but not quite as good as the best potatoes anyone has ever had ever ever. Side side note note: English muffin.

The Lemon Ricotta Pancakes: marinated berries, creamy lemon curd, topped with fresh ricotta. The waitress said that there was ricotta in the pancakes. We could not tell whether the pancakes were, in fact, normal pancakes, or whether they had stuff in them, because the lemon curd, even when scraped off, left a lemony flavour. The lemon curd was not too sweet. It reminds one of a little lemon tea cake. Or, better yet, of those lemon girl scout cookies. (As we all know, ABC Bakers supplies most of the girl scout cookies in the Rochester area; their lemon cookie is called the Lemonade). The berries were tart and well-placed; their habitation in the centre of the pancake-on-pancake-on-pancake means that the devourer can elect to have lemon-curd-only bites around the edges, while working closer and closer and closer towards berry Armageddon in the core (berry-geddon).

Order these, fo sho. There was real maple syrup provided in a little petri dish, but seriously, bro, none was necessary because of the afore described curd and berries.

Blades restaurant. Or diner? Just Blades? Blades [insert thing] is a great place for breakfast. With 10 as a must-eat, this eatery rates a 9.

Don’t Miss: The two things we described afore.

Pro Tip: A new one just opened up in Pittsford, too!