{"id":5157,"date":"2013-09-22T16:14:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T20:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tampabaybreakfasts.com\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2013-09-25T05:59:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T09:59:29","slug":"kevins-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tampabaybreakfasts.com\/?p=5157","title":{"rendered":"Kevin’s Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at Tampa Bay Breakfasts, we’re just upside-down over all the great breakfasts in Tampa Bay!<\/p>\n

(Alternate quote, “we’re falling for breakfasts in Tampa Bay”)<\/p>\n

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We parked across the street from the original Hooters.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Window-shopping for mom for her birthday. Assault rifle or Civil War artifact or Hooters calendar? How terrible of me. To say “or.” Of course, she can have them all.<\/p>\n

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Really, we’re going next door to the gun shop and across the street from Hooters to Kevin’s Kitchen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guns and Hooters. For folks who aren’t from around here, I am keenly aware that in your mind, “guns and Hooters” is pronounced “Tampa Bay.”<\/p>\n

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A standard menu, laminated for maximum kid-exposure. Note that there’s an Albanian Skillet on the menu. I’d have never guessed, four years ago when we started, that Albania would be so hugely represented in The Tampa Bay Breakfastscape. There must be a dozen places with Albanian ties. Not one Italian or German breakfast here. No Korean or Russian breakfasts. But Columbia and Albania, y’all’re on top.<\/p>\n

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Good looking breakfast boys. Marek’s not with us this morning, you may have noticed. He’s off doing the Coastal Cleanup with his mother.<\/a> They’re such fine people.<\/p>\n

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And Ivo and I, we’re just serious people. Serious about breakfast. Can you tell? <\/p>\n

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The best part about the interior of Kevin’s is the clock up on the wooden panel, made up of Daliesque cutlery. <\/p>\n

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I’m wearing my prized Daliesque Simpsons t-shirt. Ivo spent some time picking out the characters and asking why they look like that. <\/p>\n

Or maybe to Ivo the whole world looks twisted, and this shirt of mine is the only thing that looks normal. That’s a shade too close to the likely truth.<\/p>\n

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And along came breakfast. Pancakes and bacon for Ivo. He pulled out his trusty knife and started cutting. And, fine boy that he is, he gave me his bacon. Without Marek here, I actually got some bacon. It was so nice. Felt like my birthday, which is already coming fast and furiously at me.<\/p>\n

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Some very nice blueberry pancakes. I mulled over the Albanian Delight, but decided that Kevin’s didn’t look like it was doing enough volume for gyros to be really good and fresh here. I’m glad I went with the pancakes, as they were really nicely done.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a caption contest picture. Is Ivo:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Trying out for American Idol, Breakfast Edition?\n
  2. Eating a pretend pancake?\n
  3. Or is the blurry pancake on the plate blurry because he tried to eat the whole thing and I captured it falling off the fork, with an amazing and daring feat of phone-tography?\n<\/ol>\n

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    This picture is sooooo going in Ivo’s senior yearbook 12 years from now.<\/p>\n

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    And here’s yet another, where he’s slurping pancakes like spaghetti. This kid’s got creative chops. He’s gonna be a stah.<\/p>\n

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    After all that, a toast. Ivo says, “let’s do cheers, dad!”<\/p>\n

    I’m still scared at how he just mauled those pancakes, so I’m going to do anything he says. <\/p>\n

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    Eleven bucks for two breakfasts. Not terrible. Ivo’s going to pay the bill. Even though, or maybe because the place was pretty empty, he was shy and needed goading. <\/p>\n

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    It’s a good boy who brings the change back to his dad. One day, Ivo will go out and make some social change to go along with his breakfast change. In the mean time I’m just happy to get the money back in my pocket. It only cost me a quarter.<\/p>\n

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    We had an OK time at Kevin’s. It seemed like it hasn’t been in business very long. We drive by here a lot and it’s the first time I’ve noticed it, but then again maybe I’m always staring at the Hooters across the street, hoping to see some orange hotpants. Urban Spoon doesn’t even have a listing (but I suggested it to them this morning). Not much in the way of customers and bustle. Prices OK, pancakes done nicely, coffee ran a little dry for a while. We’ll give Kevin’s Kitchen a Tampa Bay Breakfasts three pancake rating.<\/p>\n

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    Here at Tampa Bay Breakfasts, we’re just upside-down over all the great breakfasts in Tampa Bay! (Alternate quote, “we’re falling for breakfasts in Tampa Bay”) We parked across the street from the original Hooters. Window-shopping for mom for her birthday. Assault rifle or Civil War artifact or Hooters calendar? How terrible of me. 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