Anyone else like being in coffee shops at 5am?

I've been an early riser my whole life, so I really enjoy sitting in a diner and having breakfast at 5 am while listening to the chatter from other patrons and the morning news shows on TV.

When I was young and single, I loved being in a diner in the early morning hours having breakfast and coffee, there was always a certain "Quietness" about it. When I married, my husband and I always stopped for coffee and breakfast in the early hours before we went somewhere on the weekends - no noisy families with kids running amok.

I'm sometimes up so early that I go to Starbucks right after they open, but it's 6 or so.

I'm always up for coffee and breakfast. The earlier the better! 😁

Not so much the coffee shops (not many good ones near my house) but on the weekends and when I'm off from work, there's something so pleasant about sitting in the bagel shop, slowly eating breakfast, reading the paper at a nice, slow, relaxed pace. You can't do that in restaurants or even diners anymore, but the bagel place is always welcoming the leisurely paced person.

Not at 5 am though. 5 am is gym time!

ZolotoyRetriever heard of this place?

www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/seattles-dacha-diner-might-be-your-new-favorite-place/?amp=1

Seattle’s new Dacha Diner on Capitol Hill has so many really, really good things to eat that it’s difficult to know where to begin. You might want to try the latkes first, for they are perfect: Made with a batter of potato, onion and matzo meal, they’re lacy-golden-brown crisped on the outside, soft to the point of melty inside, exactly salty enough, served nice and hot. Things can take a little time at Dacha Diner, but they come at the temperature that makes ancestors somewhere cluck approvingly while watching you eat it all up.

An order of three potato pancakes, two eggs — mine were ideally over-easy — and two thick triangles of beautiful wheaty-rye toast, plus, of course, sour cream and applesauce, costs $10. If you just want a side of latkes, that might be the best five bucks you can spend in Seattle right now (unless you’re skilled at making them, in which case, may I come over?).

Dacha’s Adjarian khachapuri costs $13 and is substantial enough to share. Right now, I am eating leftover khachapuri that I stuck in a hot oven for 10 minutes, and I could not be happier (sorry, keyboard). During dinnertime hours (Wednesday through Friday only), they serve other versions, like maybe one with chard, or one topped with soujouk (or sujuk), a Balkan cured sausage from George’s (also an undersung local hero). These are $13 each, too, and could probably cost half that much again more.

But if brisket is special to you, begin with that at Dacha — a big plate, pot-roast-tender, with mashed potatoes is another bargain at $13. But wait; before that, you should probably have a small bowl of borsch ($4, and really medium-sized; they hold the T, to be properly Russian, as “borscht” is a German spelling). Dacha’s borsch is chunky and rich, with a tiny vinegar-and-lemon bite to even out the sweetness of the beets. You can, and probably should, if you’re meat-inclined, add big chunks of beef ($3 extra).