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Morning Glory Cafe
11 Hall Road, Old Lyme, CT
http://www.morningglorycafeoldlyme.com/about.htm 
Review date: May 2012

This modest cafe is a Laotian refugee success story. Sichanh Patana and his family came to the US in 1980, sponsored by local churches. His cafe is open for breakfast and lunch. We stopped in for breakfast on the way back to JFK to return home.

Carlos chose the steak Benedict – steak, eggs, and Hollandaise, three of his favorite things. It was quite good, although as always he would have liked the sauce to be made with twice the amount of lemon juice than the recipe calls for (since we grow Meyer lemons, I make our Hollandaise quite heavy on the lemon juice).

I had the steak and eggs, which isn't as good as the steak Benedict. The sirloin was a little too thin, and so it came out medium and a little dry, instead of medium-rare. But the restaurant gives you a choice of white or rye toast, and when I chose rye, I got the kind of rye I love best: light (the rye is mixed with wheat flour), seeded with caraway, cut thick and lightly toasted. It was wonderful by itself or very lightly spread with jam.

The Morning Glory Cafe is a sweet local story with a decent basic breakfast. You don't need to go out of your way to try it, but if you're in the Old Lyme area, it's worth a quick stop. Me, I'd go back just for that rye toast, which is almost impossible to find on the West Coast.

Two people, breakfast: two entrees, two beverages, with tip was $36.