Savory Cafe- Downtown Ventura, CA

Savory Cafe & Bakery in Downtown Ventura has been touted for its French breakfasts and amazing pastries and baked goods.  With these accolades, I was hard pressed not to give it a run.  Most places start off simple with a glass of water and I have to say that most good restaurant's water today tastes the same.  Savory started off on the wrong foot.  Their simple glass of water tasted seriously like lipstip..and not the delicious fruity kind you get when you make out with Freda Feltcher in the sixth grade (you all know my reference).  Anyway, it was horrible and the second glass wasn't any better so I ordered a hot chocolate.  Maybe I have been going to Starbucks for way too long now but when I order a hot chocolate, I expect it to taste kind of like chocolate hence "hot chocolate."  Well, Savory missed that day of class and served me a delicious glass of warm steamed milk with a milk frappe on top.  I thought maybe the chocolate was on the bottom so I tried to spoon it out.  Sadly enough, the Harvard Graduate barista somehow forgot the chocolate.  Two strikes Savory...two strikes!
After the early meltdown, I went with everyone's go-to...the omelette.  My omelette was a spinach, caramelized onion, and ham omelette with jack cheese melted inside accompanied by pomme frites and wheat toast.  Simple right?  Well, I went down the beaten path yet again.  The omelette was conceptually well prepared.  The eggs were on the outside and the meat and vegetables were on the inside.  The gaping hole was the 3-1 onion to everything else ratio.  The onions completely overpowered every aspect of the meal, even the garlic dipping sauce for the pomme frites. The spinach was a little soggy and there was a pile of cheese on one side of the omelette and not the other.
For those of you that don't know what pomme frites are, they are Belgian fries that are supposed to be crisp on the outside, and soft and tender on the inside.  Savory did a great job with the crispy outside, however it carried into the middle of the fries and they were crisp throughout completely destroying them.  The best part of the breakfast was the one thing that I had little interest in...the wheat toast.  At this point, it wasn't even worth trying the pastries for fear they would ruin what was left of my day!  That's three strikes...or is that four?  In any case, Savory Cafe and Bakery was not a solid food choice!