Auntie Em's Kitchen

• Cuisine(s): American, Bakery
  Hours: Sun, Sat 8am-4pm, Mon-Fri 8am-7pm
  Price: $$
• Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Private Party, Catering, BYOF
  Serving: Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
  Alcohol: None
• Reservations: Not Accepted
  Parking: Street

Description

Terri Wahl's evolved diner may be the grooviest place in Eagle Rock on Saturday afternoons, a converted bungalow a few blocks from Occidental College, crowded with punk moms, rogue artists, and pretty much anyone who likes to eat breakfast at 3 p.m. The service is basically DIY, down to the menus tucked behind the napkin dispensers and the fetch-your-own Intelligentsia coffee. Cupcakes are what the people in that long line up front are waiting for, also chocolate chip cookies the diameter and thickness of old EPs. Sometimes, Auntie Em"s feels less like a restaurant than it does like a house party gone slightly out of control, plates filled with Cobb salad scrambles, BLT sandwiches with sprouts, impossible concoctions of cheddar grits and andouille sausage, or open-face breakfast sandwiches piled with Gruyère, meatloaf, salsa and eggs - food that seems occasionally less put together by a cook than grabbed out of a well-stocked fridge.