Cheap Eats 2009

By Matthew Korfhage

With its seriously tiny dimensions, Victorian-wallpapered hominess and trashy gold vinyl seats, Junior's is like stumbling into your grandma's kitchen after the all-night disco in Jersey. Vegans can find their own solace in the tofu scrambles and somewhat dry potato hashes, but the truth that will get you hangover-free is in the migas—a chorizo-tortilla-chip scramble ($8.50), the honey-peppercorn omelette ($7) or the infra-Mason-Dixon poached eggs, greens and polenta ($8). Junior's also now accepts credit cards, cashless whiners.

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Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.

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