Dam Café - Lake Tahoe

If you've ever been to Tahoe City there is no way you don't know about the Dam Cafe. Yes it's right next to Fanny Bridge where tourists lean over to look at enormous trout, and all you see is a bunch of ass crack. Oh and yes, a dam. And then you can debate what's bigger - the fish or the grotesquely huge ASS CRACK. I got two bits on the A.C.

Anyways, this place is very cute, kitschy, very tiny but very freakin' good. Jen & Glenn are the absolute coolest most laid-back happy people ever born. That's right, I said it. They Live It. And, the people that work there are super charming too, all super granola straight outta Eugene Orygun if ya didn't know any better. But they have amazing stuff here, kick ass b'fast and lunch grub. We hit it EVERYTIME we're here for b'fast at least one mornin'. And you should too.

Here's the skinny:

• They serve Illy coffee here. I'll have a double non-fat, half caf, extra foam, 3-shot...wait...what the hell am I even saying? 
• They bake cookies and pastries, don't ship 'em in from some offsite pastry farm where this stuff is cooked by oompa loompas. They Cook Them On-Premise. How official...and tasty.
  
• Kick-ass bagels, with so many options you KNOW there was some funny shit gettin' smoked when the menu was created.
• Sandwiches are OTH, very fresh. Cold, hot, room temp. Whatever. It's all guuud.
• They serve wine and beer. Nuff said.
  
• Yummy smoothies.
• Best breakfast burrito around - meat or veggie. We get our veggie sans avo. Why the hell is avo on everything in California, isn't it pricey?

Funny thing: A Tahoe 2nd homeowner (BTW, prolly with a big pine branch up her ass) once wrote into the Tahoe City Newspaper about how all of the people that live here are a bunch of "Low Life Locals". Ouch. Tahoe folks went mad. Rightly so since so many of them work at establishments that make this biotche's home valuable.  Now it's an official local movement empowering the community. So the folks at the Dam Cafe had a ton of 'I'm A Low Life Local' t-shirts printed up!

Stop in and get one! Tell them "Veggie burrito, no avocado, large drip + caramel syrup" sent ya! And oh yeah, smoke 'em if ya got 'em.