7 West Breakfast Buffet

I'm a big fan of the most lovely of food invetions, the breakfast buffet.
Mi amiga Debita and I decided to try out the Sunday breakfast buffet at 7 West on Main St.
Generally a pizza joint or rooftop hang out, Sunday is breakfast day, from 9am-1pm.
(I'd actually never even tried their pizza until the day before when I was treated to it by the LDDA for Clean Up, Green Up. Not bad, not mind blowing. Yummy cheese pizza, kinda in the realm of Papa John's I think.)
Debita and I aren't generally the early birds getting the worms, so our breakfast didn't take place until about 11:30. Seems that everyone else had already had breakfast or isn't aware of the breakfast options at the pizza place. Either seems likely; I wouldn't have ever thought of heading there for breakfast if I didn't discover it on accident.
A few more tables were seated as it got to be more lunching time but when we got there we were only one of two tables seated that I saw. So if you want a quiet breakfast, this is for you.
The buffet is not as extensive as the trough-like options at Coutry Buffet, but it included: scrambled eggs, potatoes, bacon, sausage, biscuits & gravy, waffles & syrup, and fruit. In addition to that they will make you a fresh green chile breakfast burrito or omelette, included with the price of the buffet.
My cantalopue needed to mature a bit more, my gravy was good (not grandma good, but good enough), biscuits were a little dried out, eggs, bacon, and sausage were all acceptable. My omelette was quite good, excellent sausage. Debita's breakfast burrito looked pretty fantastic.

Debita's review:
Coffee was a better grade, but whoever made it that morning went a little heavy handed on adding the grounds to the basket. Coffee shouldn't be thick.

The biscuits were dry, the choices were average, but the burrito was pretty good. I'd give it an "eh." Probably needed to knock two bucks off the price. It wasn't a $9 meal. Atmosphere was quiet (as in hardly anyone was there)- nice for a Sunday brunch.

 

 

I'm with her on the price; I think it could include coffee, juice, or other beverage with the buffet, but if you get the burrito you're getting a little better brunch for your money. It's decent sized. But I also will give them the benefit of the doubt and try it again earlier in the day when things might be a little more fresh.

Gold stars to the waiter and his trainee on being very friendly!

I'm definitely going to give the pizza lunch buffet a try some day!
If you'd like to check out their menu, visit their website here:
http://www.7westpizza.com/

Clean Up, Green Up!

Last Friday mom and I volunteered for the Clean Up, Green Up project with the LDDA (Longmont Downtown Development Authority.)
I believe it was the first volunteer group to participate in this. There was a second round of volunteers coming in on Saturday morning as well.
We met our fellow volunteers at the Downtown Longmont offices for a lunch of 7 West pizza, veggies, drinks, and snacks. In addition to me and mum there was a small church group, a mom-kids-grandma group calling themselves Green Machine, a guy trio called Gears Guys, and a couple of independent ladies, as well as a few of the LDDA staff members.
We got free Clean & Green t-shirts, pens, and got to sign up for a Downtown Longmont drawing for a $50 gift card. (Winners have not been announced yet. Me me me me!)
Mom and I were assigned to clean the kiosks placed on each block that used to contain the downtown directories. We got a bucket o' supplies and were on our way. We cleaned 6 kiosks from top to bottom as well as the very dusty and dirty newspaper stands in front of Janie's Cafe. The other groups were cleaning up St. Stephen's plaza, picking up trash, cleaning trash cans, and the fellas got to scrape gum and ArtWalk footprints off the sidewalks.
Mom commented that she was glad they didn't have us wearing orange or people would think we were doing manditory community service. But I really don't think we look too shady out there with our citrus disinfectant and little red towels.
Some of the downtown businesses didn't know why we were there, but they seemed to be ok with it since we were cleaning. It would have been nice to have a few people we didn't know to work with, since part of the fun of these things is meeting new peoplem but mom and I are a good cleaning team. I get the stuff she can't reach and she gets the stuff on the bottom.
A fun day out in the sun and wind, even though mom and I disinfected each other several times, and
 I'll certianly look for it again next year and maybe try to recruit a bigger team...?
It would be very neat if this could expand in to a sort of city-wide volunteer event with lots of people participating. If you've helped clean up your own streets you can take a little pride in how your city looks and help keep it clean and green all year long.

For more information about the LDDA and events in Longmont, visit their website-
http://downtownlongmont.com/

Side note: One of the snacks they had for us were Newtons Fruit Crisps, apple cinnamon flavor. Oh I love it! Kinda like a Poptart and a granola bar had a baby. ~yum~

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