Scratch the surface to find .....

I have been wanting to try Scratch Pastries for a while now.  I read a review in the Best of Phoenix magazine and could not wait to try them especially after having tried Chez Vous.
Ok, so I really love French cuisine.   :)




Scratch Pastries is tucked in a shopping center that is a bit difficult to see and find if you're not familiar with the place.
(it's right next to the Subway)



The sign is not that visible driving by and there is an awning that makes it a bit harder to see unless you are looking at the building straight on from a distance.

It has a small cute patio that has about 5 tables that is under the awning.




They also have wifi here - so you can work while having breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Walking into Scratch Pastries, I thought  ~ this is cute.  I love the red colored wall that you see when you walk in ~ on the back wall.  They have their menu painted on that red wall behind the counter.

There was a bit of confusion as to whether we were to seat ourselves or wait to be seated.  We stood at the counter for a bit before we were acknowledged. Well.... until we were finally told that we could just seat ourselves.


We never were properly greeted when we entered or when we sat ourselves. (hhmmm... hoping it was just an off day)





Once we sat at our table staring at each other for a good 5 minutes, we were wondering why we still had not been acknowledged, waters not brought to us or menus not brought to us either.  I realized by accident that the drink menu in front of us actually had the food menu on the back.




We looked at the menu and decided that we wanted to start with mimosas.
Still no server..... (usually by this time I would have already walked out -but we were going to another event after)



We asked the girl at the counter if we were supposed to order from her or if a server was going to come by.  She said she would get the server to take our order.















Our server came over as promised and we placed our order ~ food and drinks.

Yay!!!  Mimosas arrived!!!

Mmmmmm.....food......hungry.





My breakfast arrived...... eggs florentine with hash-browns and a bed of greens.

Perfect amount of hash-browns and the eggs were wonderful.

Should have asked for fruit instead of a salad but was still good.












My friend had the eggs benedict with hash-browns and a bed of greens.

We both enjoyed the food.  The Hollandaise sauce was really good.  Sometimes you get sauce that is really thick and rich and others runny.
It was perfect!














We had checked out the dessert display earlier while we were waiting to be seated to decide in advance what we wanted to try for a sweet treat.




And though they had quite the selections for sweets as you can see ~












                                 We had ordered the Nutella crepe with our breakfast.  It was very delicious.

I'm hoping to try Scratch Pastries again and hope the service experience I had was just a fluke, that they were just having an off day because I really enjoyed the food.  Parisians pride themselves on magnificent food and wonderful service and the lackluster of service we received would have been unacceptable to them.





                           Until next time  ~ à bientôt