Brunch: a joy to eat, a horror to wait in line for three hours at 10am on the cold streets of San Francisco while smelling all the delicious scents waft out from those crazy enough to have showed up at 8am. Hungering for brunch but not quite wanting to make the journey into the city, we hit up Hash House in Campbell. It was quite popular still, and the wait was about an hour for a party of six.
First thing you notice upon going in is that everyone is using garishly colored plates. Second are the strange little goblets people drank from. JP got one of these, which are the caramel apple mimosas - quite tasty, though not particularly special.
In order to diversify, I got the Mexican hash, which has chorizo and jalapeno and was quite spicy. It was okay - I realized upon getting this that I do NOT like hash with this much potatoes.
Oh, why diversify you ask? Well...
Two of our group got fried chicken dishes. Fried chicken waffles...
...and fried chicken benedicts. The concept of a fried chicken benedict actually sounds cool, but incredibly heavy.
Because of the time's proximity to St. Patrick's day, half of our party got corned beef dishes: corned beef benedicts, and corned beef hash. I actually quite liked all of Hash House's corned beef dishes, although I prefer the benedict slightly more.
Hash House has a pretty solid breakfast, though I'm personally not a fan of hash. (Why did you order a hash then, you ask? Because someone else already ordered corned beef benedicts... sigh.) It's a good option for a brunch in the south bay and has big hearty portions of comfort food options, but from the choices we ordered I didn't find anything particularly standout to warrant an hour long wait. I'll likely come again due to proximity and it being a rare decent brunch option in the San Jose area, but there's no need to make a long trip here if you have closer places.
Campbell, CA
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