Rate-A-Restaurant, #29 in a series
Restaurant: Downtown Standard Restaurant
Location: 550 S. Flower St.
Type of restaurant: International Comfort Food
They stipulated: You have to pay for parking (but you can get around that by paying $1 at the downtown library's parking garage next door -- don't forget to get validated).
What we ordered: Egg White Omelet for Mike and Scrambled Egg Whites (not much of a difference between the two) with Bacon for Maria. Mmmm, bacon.
High point: The watermelon juice; not having to stand in line outside in the cold to get in, like we would have done if we had gone to The Pantry; and they left us alone as we powered through writing our holiday cards.
Low point: The photo booth downstairs wasn't working. (Why is it never working?)
Overall impression: Just like the casino at The Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas is not your typical casino, the restaurant at The Standard Hotel in downtown is not your typical diner for breakfast. They play good music, the atmosphere is the we're-too-cool-for-school variety but it's all right. It's not too crowded for breakfast and if you act like you're cooler than shit, then they leave you alone. Breakfast here is so fitting -- everything is in egg-yolk yellow or white, the booths are comfy and the wall and ceiling will make you feel like you are nestled in an egg carton.
Chance we will go back: Uh-huh.
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