AMORE BREAKFAST

Yesterday was Monday - and how could we top the great experience of appearing twice on the Telefest held here at our local television station. Only one thing we could think of.........

We gathered ourselves together and left Concord at 6:45 a.m. and headed for Ogunquit, Maine about an hour and a half away. We haven't had many good weather days, but yesterday the sun peeked through and the drive was lovely.

Amore Breakfast is run by a woman who has been involved in the restaurant business for many years and she has perfected the art of planning super breakfast menus and to back them up, she hires the cream of breakfast chefs and wait people to serve. All the staff act as ambassadors for everything from her restaurant to the shows at the Ogunquit Summer Theater where many of the young folks appear on stage while holding down their jobs at Amore.

I had a delectable meal of scrambled eggs, home fries and the best corned beef hash I've ever tasted...homemade, not greasy but possessing some secret ingredient that makes the taste buds sit up and take notice.

Kay had a run of the mill breakfast of eggs and bacon but, run of the mill is never an accurate description for anything delivered to your table at Amore. Even the simple egg is tenderly prepared - never beaten, probably coaxed lovingly into that state of readiness to jump onto the grill. Once there it has to have been gently stroked into a scrambled state. The reason I go into this so thoroughly is the eggs are fluffy and puffed up on the plate as if to say, "Here I am - just for you!"

I recommend Amore to everyone that passes through Ogunquit but especially all same sex couples because the owner, Leanne, is in tune to those in alternative lifestyles and always has a special word or two for us she recognizes as being a kindred spirit.