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Corporate Edge Org (CEO) Small Business Consultants in Boston HOME | Contact | About us | Special Projects | Business Writing | Food Writing FEED ME! Food Features by Kitty Kaufman Breakfast is Served: Sorella's Some of the best meals I've ever had are right in the neighborhood. It doesn't matter what neighborhood because there's always a place around the corner or down the street. The owners are invariably behind the counter or in the kitchen and the regulars are so predictable that servers don't even drop menus on their table. If you live in Jamaica Plain and like to take breakfast in someone else's kitchen, Sorella's is your neighborhood place. They specialize in breakfast and to prove it there's a five-page menu listing more than 50 omelets, 20 pancake and waffle varieties, and 10 flavors of French toast. They've got homemade muffins and scones, croissant sandwiches and crepes, plus bacon, ham, sausage, and hash. Purists will find oatmeal, fresh fruit, carrot juice, polenta, tofu stir-fry, and egg white specials. Egg sybarites can have their eggs with steak or corned beef hash or go all out with eggs Rockefeller (spinach, mushrooms, and cream sauce). Ellie Elias and Toni Elias opened the aptly named Sorella's (Italian for sister) in 1983 and never looked back. Their niece, Mickey Velasquez, works right alongside them from breakfast starting at 6:30 a.m. through closing at 2 p.m. All three remarked on how JP has changed over the years with regulars that now include lots of artists, young professionals, along with some familiar faces. Velasquez saw Mayor and Mrs. Menino last week and Ellie and Toni Elias welcomed Conan O'Brien. Yes, in addition to breakfast and brunch (mimosas on request) there is lunch. Find sandwiches of every shape and kind: BLTs, meatball, tuna, chicken in many incarnations, and vegetarian wraps. Salads include Greek, Caesar, garden, spinach, and Sorella's very own with romaine, basil, chickpeas, avocado, feta, sprouts, and sun-dried tomatoes. To go along with the hot lunches that include steak tips, chili con carne and vegetarian chili, there is garlic bread, mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers, plus beer and wine. Being partial to family businesses and duly impressed by those that succeed, it's great to find this group serving up good food seven days a week. Cash only. © October 6, 2004, February 23, 2005 for The City Shopper 40 St. Paul St | Brookline MA 02446 | 617. 388. 0062 Kitty Kaufman kkaufman@corp-edge.com |