The menu is quite unique as is the interior design of the Galaxie Diner. It's an "old school" diner with the design emulating a renovated street car from the '50s. The space is small and cozy and the chef cooks behind the counter. We were seated in one of the 6 or 7 booths. There are a few counter seats and very little space between. Each table has a wall jukebox. They aren't operational but it was fun to look through the music selections.
Bill ordered the Montreal Smoked Meat Omelette and I ordered the Breakfast Burrito. Both were delicious and had lots of fresh tasting ingredients. We always swap tastes and agreed that everything on our plates was excellent!
We go out for breakfast at least once a week so are getting pretty seasoned and probably a bit more discerning from when we started this project looking for cool and tasty places to eat breakfast in Calgary (or wherever we happen to be). The Galaxie Diner fits into my top five. The environment was so relaxed and retro that when we left the Diner, I half-expected to find the rest of the city transported back to the fifties! The restaurant is not far from Shelf Life Books on 4th St. SW where we always find something interesting to purchase. It always feels good to support an independent book store as there are not that many left in Calgary.
And now the books!
I've read a few books over the summer, mostly novels, and reread Eckhart Tolle's Power of Now. And by the way, I highly recommend it even if you've read it before. It remains one of the most profound discourses on the eternal space we inhabit from moment to moment. If I had the self-discipline, I'd read it at least once a year.
I now have 3 books that I'm looking forward to digging into. The first is Reader Come Home, The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf (author of Proust and the Squid) , Birds by the Shore by Jennifer Ackerman and Lars Kepler's The Rabbit Hunter.
I hope everyone enjoyed a great summer, good food and great reads!
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