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<\/a>\u201cThen go look in the window,\u201d he quipped before shuffling past an elderly woman who said she wanted coffee.<\/p>\n
\u201cGet it yourself,\u201d he told her.<\/p>\n
And so she did, entering into a disheveled work area strewn with fake flowers and dated Asian d\u00e9cor while grabbing a mug along the way.<\/p>\n
Welcome to Lucky\u2019s Breakfast, where Hong Kong native, \u201cLucky,\u201d does the all of the cooking, serving and bussing without ever losing his impish smile \u2014 or the wisecracks that come with it.<\/p>\n
Lucky opened the small, corner-lot business 38 years ago as a Chinese restaurant called Lucky\u2019s Golden \u201cPhenix.\u201d He later converted it to Lucky\u2019s Breakfast and currently serves all-American morning fare from 7 a.m. to noon, Monday through Saturday.<\/p>\n You can\u2019t help but love the guy. He\u2019s witty and nurturing, despite the fact he rarely stands still and makes eye contact with customers as they order their food. With two U-shaped lunch counters filling the space, and a rear kitchen that he fades into periodically, there isn\u2019t time to get overly personal.<\/p>\n Visiting as a twosome for the first time, we waited a few minutes to place our orders. Then, from across the room, and without a pen or paper, Lucky shouted out in a quasi-brusque manner, \u201cJust tell me what you guys want.\u201d<\/p>\n Without choice, we responded for everyone to hear.<\/p>\n It becomes obvious when looking at the menu that Lucky runs the diner as a labor of love rather than for profit. And though his breakfast offerings are ultra-basic \u2014 bacon, ham, eggs, toast, hash browns and pancakes \u2014 his prices are frozen in the early \u201880s.<\/p>\n A three-egg breakfast with three strips of bacon, hash browns and toast is only $3.80. Coffee runs 85 cents a cup with free refills if you order food. Otherwise it\u2019s 10 cents per top off. The most expensive dish on the menu is a cheese-filled Denver omelet with potatoes and toast for $4.30.<\/p>\n So what if the omelet arrived slightly overcooked. I was too amused to complain.<\/p>\n My companion chose a slab of glistening ham steak instead of bacon for his three-egg breakfast. The over-easy eggs were perfectly cooked in this case. And we loved the fluffy hash browns on our plates, which took well to the Valentina hot sauce placed along the counter tops in industrial-size glass bottles.<\/p>\n We also each ordered a side of pancakes ($2.85 a pair) that were light and thin. Those came out first as Lucky made it appear he had forgotten the remainder of our order.<\/p>\n \u201cCan I get you anything else?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n Just as we were about to recite again our main orders, he magically pulled the entrees out from behind us, set them under our chins, chuckled and walked away.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>