Jalopy's Drive-in - Review #13

Another Saturday and another breakfast!  Today we stayed local and went to Jalopy's Drive-in located about 3 miles away in the small town of Perkins, south of Stillwater. Since we stayed local today, we were joined by Mike and Greg which changed things up a bit.

Notice the automated ice machine to the left of the sign where you can purchase ice by the bucket!

Jalopy's definitely isn't much of an impressive site, with a blue metal roof and sign that appear to be dated by back the 60's or 70's.  For a long time I avoided trying it, but as we've learned on this breakfast tour, you can't judge a book by it's cover.  The parking lot is often full, especially in the mornings, and so about a month ago we tried it for the first time.  Unfortunately, I forgot to write it up; however, on the bright side that meant we got to go back again!

Similar to Grammy's that I wrote about in review #9, you order your food at the counter, and pour your own coffee.  The menu on the wall is hand written, and made for a great picture, but sadly the picture I took didn't come out.   Like the first time we were here there was a large table full of old white guys, that I think must have included every 70+ year old man in Perkins.  Another table had a single very large middle-aged guy  in overalls and a brown leather hat who had been there last time, and seemed to be the only person who could regularly get the staff to refill his coffee.  I wonder if it's because he couldn't get out of his chair to refill his coffee?

Greg's breakfast!

Today, BJ and I both had eggs over easy, pancakes and sausage.  Mike had bacon, hasbrowns, eggs over easy and toast, and Greg had eggs, sausage, biscuits and gravy.  This was definitely one of the best breakfasts we have had.  The pancakes were soft, yet had a slight crispiness which was excellent, and the sausage was spicy.  And this one is for you Tamara, the eggs were excellent, probably the best I've had.  The egg whites were thick, and overall they were very light brown, and lightly crisped, yet by no means burned.  With just a touch of pepper added they were fantastic.   The coffee was also unlimited and good, with the only complaint being the lack of real cream.  Artificial dried cream just isn't the same. 

Those were some good eggs Tamara!

Probably the most unusual moment of the morning was when Greg ordered a glass of milk and they said they had to run and buy some before bringing him his glass about 10 minutes later!

And overall.......

Food: 4.5 of 5 pancakes
Cost: $$ (out of 5 - more dollar signs = more expensive)
Overall: 4.5 of 5 cups of coffee

Jalopy's really has been a great local find. The food is very good and the price of $5.99 for most breakfasts is tough to beat.  The atmosphere is pretty nice inside with pictures of lots of old cars, and the people watching is tough to beat out side of the Icehouse Bar (Review #2).  If they could just get some real cream the place would be almost perfect for a quick, good, local breakfast. 

Until next time, keep on eating breakfast!