Mission Cafe in the East Village

After the Carolina Herrera show, Hamid and I (and later Mohib!) decided to go for brunch in the East Village. We were walking up 2nd Ave., and Hamid noticed the low-key Mission Cafe. He says the hole-in-the wall places have less space but more love. Word.

Their menu is a mix of Mexican and American food (for some reason they say it’s Middle Eastern on Yelp.com, but I think that’s because it seemed like everyone working there was…c’mon people! It’s definitely not Middle Eastern food!), with plenty of healthy options. Hamid got the egg croissant and I got the huevos rancheros. OK, but I am a little confused because I could have sworn I had taken pictures of our food. Instead, we took these before and after videos of our meal. Enjoy.

The food tasted healthy but had just enough flavor — it was also unassumingly filling. I did manage to take a shot of Mohib’s veggie omelette!

Veggie omelette

Not bad really, and good prices. Service was great too. I love brunch.


Restaurant Info:
Mission Cafe

82 2nd Ave
btw 4th St & 5th St.
New York, NY 10003
212-505-6616
East Village

x
Shy

6 Comments

  1. Dee wrote:

    are you vegan? Just wondering because of your omelet. was this one of the better vegan eateries for brunch or are there better ones?

    Posted 2.16.10
  2. shyema wrote:

    No I’m not vegan/vegetarian..I think this was just a preference thing. I like Teany in the LES for vegan food!

    Posted 2.17.10
  3. Jess B. wrote:

    this is kind of irrelevant to the post but I found out what a ‘hole in the wall’ was last summer when my co-worker was telling me that there were so many Mexican (my fav food) ‘hole in the walls’ Im like wow I cant believe ive never seen one or heard of them, we had this conversation for about 45 minutes before i realized Hole in the wall was not the name of the place rather that it is the name of places like that…knowing that made me understand this post just a little bit more…though id share

    Posted 2.17.10
  4. shyema wrote:

    Hhahahahhaha Jess, you’re too cute!

    Posted 2.17.10
  5. Sabeen wrote:

    wow I serrrrriously LOL’d when Hamid’s croissant just slid off the plate…priceless.

    Posted 2.17.10
  6. shyema wrote:

    That was so funny!!! And it was just a croissant with egg or something and he’s like ‘it’s just so beautiful’ hahhaha..i love these videos

    Posted 2.17.10

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