Best of 2003: Best Place To Take Your Parents To Breakfast

Golden Egg Omelet House
316 W. Mission Avenue, Escondido
760-489-6420

These omelets are thin, weightless, crêpe-like sheets of eggs wrapped around heaps of elaborate fillings. One option is strawberries and cream -- Golden Egg is the only rival to Duke's Tropicana Coffee Shop in Hollywood at executing this morning masterpiece. Or you can go for waffles, eggs, hash, crêpes, burgers, sandwiches, and a dozen odd potato extravaganzas. Your parents should have good appetites. And they should tolerate kitsch, since the interior here is the land of a zillion knickknacks.