{"id":210,"date":"2007-10-07T22:04:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T06:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2007-10-07T22:04:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T06:04:48","slug":"el-monte-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"El Monte lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

When dropped CFI extraordinaire Andy Hoover off at El Monte<\/a> (EMT) last week, I noticed a restaurant open on the field.\u00c2\u00a0 I love an excuse to fly anywhere, so I filed El Monte away.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s not far to EMT, so I set out to do some stalls and steep turns before heading into El Monte for lunch.\u00c2\u00a0 This had mixed results.\u00c2\u00a0 There were Santa Ana conditions today, so it was clear and gorgeous (EMT was reporting 50 miles of visibility), but there was enough turbulence that maneuvering at low power settings was laborious.\u00c2\u00a0 I was hoping to do a series of stall recoveries tp work on some finer points.\u00c2\u00a0 Conditions were variable enough that such fine-tuning was difficult.\u00c2\u00a0 I did do a few stalls and some slow flight to get the feel of doing them in the turbulence and mountain waves, but didn’t get to my tinkering.<\/p>\n

Then, off to EMT.\u00c2\u00a0 It was bumpy, but fortunately there weren’t a lot of folks out because of it, which was nice.\u00c2\u00a0 I flew a wide pattern into EMT, and actually made a nice enough landing.<\/p>\n

Annia’s Kitchen is the restaurant on the field, and I was impressed by the\u00c2\u00a0 service and the food, even though I don’t think I ordered the best thing on the menu.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a chicken sandwich with a chile on it – the Santa Fe melt – and it was really quite good.\u00c2\u00a0 Offering either fires or onion rings with the sandwich is a good call.\u00c2\u00a0 (The onion rings were crisp and not over-breaded, just right). But from the size and looks of the various breakfast dishes that went by, that was the way to go.\u00c2\u00a0 The ham slices on the ham and eggs were enormous and the pancakes thick and tasty looking.\u00c2\u00a0 Next time I go I’ll aim for one of those; a ham and pancakes dish would be optimal.<\/p>\n

The staff was very pleasant and attentive.\u00c2\u00a0 The restaurant has a large patio – a veranda almost – overlooking the runway, and a half-hour watching airplanes while munching onion rings without my iced tea running dry would be worth it even if they didn’t serve any food.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s nothing too fancy here, but excellent quality for an airport diner.<\/p>\n

Thus fortified, I headed over to Brackett Field to put in a few landings, and then back to SMO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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