Merrill Shindler is a Los Angeles-based freelance dining critic. The cold cut plate comes with two types of cheese - and вЂњcanned fruit.вЂќ YouвЂ™ve got to love a restaurant honest enough to list canned fruit as вЂњcanned fruit.вЂќ The chicken breast and ground beef patty both come with cottage cheese and a hard-boiled egg. Lunch is dominated by the 27 sandwiches, with eight burgers that you can add on to that.Д«ut for a real taste of the old days, check out the DieterвЂ™s Specials. Lunch is actually a more complex meal, with real old school options like the вЂњHome Away from Home Luncheons.вЂќ ThereвЂ™s also liver & onions and Salisbury steak, roast beef, fried jumbo shrimp and a вЂњturkey lunch.вЂќ They all come with mashed spuds and gravy, veggies, a choice of soup or salad, and a dinner roll. On the other hand, GrandmaвЂ™s Coffee Cake, a wonderful thing, virtually a meal in itself, is double-layered, and thick with cinnamon, walnuts, brown sugar and icing. And so, thereвЂ™s a breakfast burrito with scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese, hash browns or Tater Tots, and bacon, sausage, ham, chorizo or chili. But you know, times change, and so do demographics. I will bet that when LeRoyвЂ™s first opened back in 1976, there was no breakfast burrito on the menu. Or you can build your own, using most of the ingredients found in the other omelettes. The sandwiches look like schlotzskys but taste so much better Theyre homemade goodnessThis place has been around for 30 years and its a comfortable environment to have a good meal. The omelettes are stone classics, perfectly done each and every time - the aforementioned Denver (ham, bell peppers and onions), the Greek (spinach and feta), the Meat Lovers (bacon, sausage, ham and chili), the Spanish (made with вЂњSpanish sauce,вЂќ which might otherwise be called salsa), the chili, and the vegetarian. Latest reviews, photos and ratings for Hobos at 13431 East Fwy in Houston - view the menu, hours, phone number, address and map.

Like I said, this is pure culinary comfort, with dishes done well by a kitchen thatвЂ™s probably made everything about a zillion times before.

Even the toast options hew to the straight and narrow - wheat, white, sourdough, rye, raisin, pumpernickel, English muffin and a bagel, with nary an artisanal loaf in sight. Otherwise, this is the land of the Salisbury steak, liver & onions, and a Denver omelette for breakfast. About the wildest dish is the Hobo Sandwich, served for lunch, made with roast beef, ham, turkey, Swiss and American cheeses with lettuce and tomato, and mayo, on a French roll. This is not a hotbed of madcap culinary creativity. And whatвЂ™s on the menu is chow weвЂ™ve come to know well over the years.

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