Review: Breakfast at Nicollet Cafe

Kip and I are champions of home-cooked meals. We do not eat out. When we do, we do it for three reasons– to reward ourselves, to spend the extra money, or just because.

I cook meals three times a day. It’s not my hobby. I just want to make sure that my family only eat healthy. But yesterday morning, my hubby invited me on a breakfast date.

Brilliant.

We’re new in town. There’s not really much of Nicollet that we know of aside from St. Peter’s Library, our now regular hangout place.

In times like this, the only help we could have was Google Maps. We pulled up the app to search for restaurants that serve breakfast as early as 8:00 AM.

Luckily, we found a place that’s few blocks away from St. Peter’s Library— the Nicollet Cafe.

It’s conveniently located in the heart of St. Peter, a small town south of Minnesota, 12 miles away from home.

The restaurant looked vintage outside. It had beige-painted brick walls with some stains of brown and black on the top. The stains suggest that the building had been there for a long while.

The parking area was across the entrance door. There’s a vertical parking on the adjacent side, if you don’t prefer to park at the front of the store.

What’s Inside?

The outside appearance of the cafe didn’t raise objections, so I expected the same inside.

Due to the triggers of our empty stomachs, we forgot to take pictures of some of the important spots of the cafe, including the customers’ waiting area.

At the waiting area, we noticed right away the sign that tells us to wait. Beside it was the cashier’s desk. The place looked clean and had an inviting atmosphere.

The assistance arrived in 2 minutes. She was friendly. She asked how many persons we needed the table for. She also asked if we wanted the regular table or booth. We chose the booth.

When we got to our booth, the server (named Mel) came to us and took our order for drinks. Of course, we ordered our all-time favorite— hot cocoa!

We carefully observed the whole interior of the cafe. It could perhaps house 75 people at full house. The walls were decorated with artificial bricks painted in off-white. There were diamond hole patterns on top of each booth and the floor was dark brown and semi-shiny.

The Menu

Nicollet Cafe had an interesting selection of foods in the menu. It took us 3 minutes to decide which food to order.

I didn’t feel like eating eggs because I haven’t gotten over the Mushroom and Cheese Omelette from The Curran’s Restaurant from 2 weeks ago. The serving size was just huge for me that I felt like it’s still sitting in my stomach undigested.

So I just ordered Waffle and Corned Beef Hash. My husband got Country Side Platter.

The foods didn’t take long to arrive. I got a nice big flower-shaped waffle, and a separate plate for my hash beef. My husband had a huge plateful of gravy and biscuits, 2 country eggs and hash browns.

Great foods at an economical price

The total price for my order was $8.68, his was $7.49. Add $3.38 for two hot cocoa’s and $2.19 for a larger than average orange juice and our total was $22.14, plus a small tax of $1.63.

Not bad!

The verdict?

The foods were delicious and very filling. I didn’t even finish my plate. The hash brown was good so as my hot cocoa.

For $22.14, we got more of what we expected, especially about how the staff treated us.

I can say it’s really worth the pay!

We’ll certainly come back with our family next time.