FRANK'S - TUCSON, AZ

At night this restaurant is called Francisco's and serves delicious Mexican food. We've eaten dinner there a lot and we've always been very satisfied. But during the day (this was my first time) this place serves delicious american breakfasts and lunches till 2pm.

The atmosphere is totally different from the evening. when we've gone its quiet, with maybe 3 other tables  filled. a lot of Spanish chatter and mariachi music but during the day - WOW. it is jammed; all the seats inside and the small narrow outside eating area were filled with a constantly changing set of buttocks.  And there were 4 or 5 waitresses working and the place is not big at all but they were running around all the time. There was a lag and some space around 11:15 until the lunch crowd started arriving and the smells went from toast to grilled burgers.

I love the atmosphere (day or night);very friendly and big portions with super reasonable prices (weekdays, they have an early bird breakfast special for $1.75 which includes 2 eggs, potatoes and toast or biscuit.) Its a very 'hole in the wall' joint; old with curling and dirty at the edges linoleum on the floor and not much in the way of decoration. Its near the corner of Pima and Alvernon.

Anyway, i had a sausage and cheese (4 choices, i picked provolone which i wouldn't do again; it was too stringy when melted) with tomatoes omelette. This was absolutely delicious. The omelette had the cheese melted in the middle but the sausage and tomatoes were sprinkled on the top; sort of an inside out omelette. There was so much sausage it spilled all around the eggs. This was accompanied by a a platter sized portion of extra crispy hashed browns. (another mistake in my ordering; i'll be prepared next time. The extra crispy request rendered the potatoes into a thin pancake of crisp; and no potato.)

And i paid 25 cents extra to have raisin toast instead of regular bread and it was the best raisin bread i've ever had. i was picking up crumbs from the plate.

All of this cost $9 with tax.

Frank's rocks just like Francisco's.