Potrero Hill's much-loved breakfast joint moves to bigger quarters over in Dogpatch.
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Breakfast, Lunch & Brunch
Now Serving Dinner Too!
We?re located in San Francisco?s Dogpatch (east of Potrero Hill), just a few minutes down 3rd Street from the ballpark. We?ve got lots of good things to eat: eggs, pancakes and french toast, New Orleans and Mexican specialties, fish specials, sandwiches, salads, fresh made sausages, home-made breads, hot plates, yummy desserts and always some daily specials. Now don?tcha just want to eat here? Our white, wheat and cinnamon-raisin bread is baked right here, with no additives or preservatives. And our rye bread is from the fine folks at Acme. If you like, take a fresh loaf home with you.
In Short Decorated with neon rock-and-roll posters, this funky cafe attracts a local Dogpatch crowd of artists and young professionals, who often fill the eight tables and long counter. Breakfast is an especially popular meal, featuring grits or crab cakes with eggs, fat breakfast burritos, crunchy cornmeal pancakes and thick slices of homemade toast. The lunch menu includes Reubens, fresh fish of the day, pasta of the day, hamburgers and fresh-cut french fries.
Just for You is a hidden away restaurant that always has a line out the door. They have comfort food breakfast, like french toast, grits and potatoes. I always leave there incredibly full and a relatively small bill.
PROS: Great food for a low price
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Beignets
By winediva
Beignets are the best reason to have breakfast at Just for you. Do not expect a fancy brunch, but if you are willing to wait a little for a table on the weekend and love a hot beignet, this is the place for you. The prices are reasonable, if not cheap, compared to most of SF.
Pros: Beignets, easy parking, relaxed atmosphere Cons: waits on weekends (usually only about 10-15 min)
Posted 08/31/06
Lunch no so much!
By lisaf
My fiance and I love Just For You for breakfast/brunch. The owner's native Louisiana roots are what brought us there to begin with, as we are recent transplants here from New Orleans - the food has always been spectacular! When we found out that the weekday menu also had Po-Boys, we decided to try lunch there as well. Shame on them for calling this a Po-Boy. You may be able to fool Californians, but after 28 years in New Orleans, I know that shrimp po-boys should have more than 4 shrimp (for $9.95)!!! They did taste great, at least the bites that had more than just lettuce and french bread, but come on...We were very dissapointed in this "tease" of a real seafood Po-Boy. We'll stick to breakfast here!
Pros: Quality, Parking, Good Selection Cons: , Service
Posted 01/19/05
Just For You has Jumped The Shark
By clemetisg
I used to love this place, and some of the things on the menu were GREAT (cornmeal pancakes, for instance). When they first changed to their new local, the prices were still low and the food good. Oh, how things change. They should call the restaurant "Not For You Anymore". OK, the beignets are pretty great. But the last two times I've gone, the service has been surly and rushed, the food's been mediocre at best, and the prices are now as high as any other breakfast joint. It's just not worth it. Grits are runny, eggs over-easy are raw, pancakes thick, rubbery, tasteless. Wait staff too busy to take your order but then falling all over themselves to get you out to make room for more. Friends I took there wondered why I raved about it. Sadly, it's the end of an era.
Pros: Beignets, Good parking Cons: , Unfriendly atmoshpere
Posted 07/09/04
Wull, Bless My Grits
By tomclark
I thought I'd died and gone to Breakfast Heaven. This is the place you'd hope to find on a trip deep in the Heartland but rarely do. Immediately order a plate of exquisite, spectacular beignets with coffee while perusing the menu. Then pick some of their fabulous homemade bread slices to go with whatever entree. I picked cinnamon raisin bread, which was as good as my Mama's, along with the delicious pork chop, eggs and grits. Whoever cannot appreciate this place should just stick to Denny's. Others be patient, it's well worth the wait. (Wish I was there now).
Pros: Like Mama Made, Fabulous Meat, Spectacular Bread
Posted 07/05/04
best brunch in sf
By cosmicdick
seriously. make your way out to dogpatch this sunday morning and order yourself a plate of freshly-baked beignets right when you sit down. then kick back and take your pick of anything on the menu. some of my favorites are the cajun catfish, huevos rancheros, and oh dear god the home made corned beef hash. where else can you have all that and gaze up at authentic bottom of the hill show posters??
