why has all the stuff i've been posting lately been so fluffy? anyway, here are some slightly more substantial bits on breakfast/brunch places: garden of eden (tremont st in the south end): yet another one of those places that andy and i haven't been to in a while and for good reason. we tried it for breakfast and we were both quite disappointed. the service was as bad as we remembered, and literally all they had was eggs, omelettes, toast, granola, and pastries. no bacon, no pancakes, nada. also, since when do you get plain toast and have to ask for butter and jam? that's just pathetic. scollay square (21 beacon st, beacon hill): kind of new place next door to where my friend roy lives. we went on a sunday and it was pretty empty. i got a really good, albeit simple, portabella sandwich with cress and goat cheese. roy had a spinach and goat cheese omelette and andy had eggs and hash. andy wasn't impressed w/ what he got but said he'd be up for trying it for dinner. in any case both of us have decided that we need to try some of the places in beacon hill seeing as how we've pretty much run out of ones in the south end. --- in other news, i'm currently reading oranges by a guy named john mcphee. winnie would be proud of me, heh. i got it randomly from andy, but it's pretty entertaining. it's exhaustive and a bit tedious at times, but overall it provides loads of useless facts that would be perfect for impersonal cocktail chitchat ... well, among pomologists anyway. a sample of such trivia and some choice quotes: "Oranges ... were the golden apples of the Hesperides, which were stolen by Hercules." The color of the orange has no bearing on how ripe it is Unlike other fruits, oranges don't ripen once picked. "If an orange has five seeds or less, it is called seedless." "Blood oranges grow well in Florida, but they frighten American women." "The sex life of citrus is something fantastic."