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My soon to be bride (less than three weeks now for those of you keeping score) and I figured out that there are four places where we love having breakfast, and that we have a hard time branching out. One of those four places is Hugo’s in West Hollywood, where we brunched on Sunday. We go to Hugo’s the least out of our favorites, simply because of geography, but quality wise, it is one of the tops.

I’m not a creature of habit. When I go out to eat, I like to try different things. I’ve never thought it would be “cool” to be able to go into a place and order “the usual”. To me, that would mean going to the same place too often and ordering the same thing everytime. Who wants that? Hugo’s, however, drives me to break my rules. I simply cannot go there and order anything except for the Desayuno Fuerte. Good god, just writing about it makes me crave it.

The Desayuno Fuerte has four basic ingredients. Starting at the bottom: potato pancakes, veggies, eggs and cheese. If only it were that simple, I could whip it up at home. Starting at the top. The cheese is fresh shreds of parmesian, flavorful and robust. The eggs are two perfectly poached mini globes of goodness, with solid whites and flowing motlen yolks. The veggies, a mix of spinach, tomatoes, onions and garlic are sauteed until slightly soft, but not mushy. The potato pancakes, well the potato panckaes are the very specific reason why this dish is so tasty. The first time I tried them, I thought that it was some sort of sausage patty. There was simply too much flavor to be formed tubers. In truth, well, they are potato pancakes, but the flavor and consistancy is like no potato pancake I have had anywhere else. They are amazing, basically.

There are other options on the menu. Obviously. They used to have some great potato taquitos, but those weren’t on the menu Sunday. Hugo’s also serves chilaquiles, although I will have to leave it to someone else to sample those.

Free two hour parking in the structure across the street from Hugo’s.

By the way, the other three in the top four? Jinky’s, Amandine and John O’Groats. Feel free to through darts at that list.

Hugo’s Restaurant
8401 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, Ca 90069
323-654-3993

By Jonah (see more of his posts). Jonah is the founder of la.foodblogging and also created Digesty, a food blog aggregator and Cheww.com, a spam free foodblog search engine.