Market Street Café

LVA Review

This restaurant was reviewed in the November 2011 LVA; some of the information contained in the review may no longer be accurate.

The Market Street Café continues to serve its long-running prime rib special from 4 to 11 pm daily for $8.95. It comes with vegetable, baked potato, salad bar, and a big bowl of cherries jubilee for dessert. This one’s a classic that’s been in the Top Ten on many occasions, not so much for the 8-ounce prime rib—though it’s a better-than-average cut and comes with the super-hot horseradish if you ask—but for all the extras. Is it a Top Tenner again? Not quite. But since it’s much more about quantity than quality here, one thing’s certain: You won’t go away hungry.

This restaurant was reviewed again in the July 2017 LVA; some of the information contained in the review may no longer be accurate.

Every now and again (especially if you’ve spent time in Asia), you want steamed white rice for breakfast. The best place for that is the little slice of the Pacific Rim that is the Market Street Café at the California. The Philippine breakfast ($7.99) comes with two eggs, toast, rice, and tocino. In Spanish, tocino means bacon, but in the Philippines, tocino is sliced pork belly that, traditionally, is marinated in anise wine, annatto, sugar, salt, and possibly pineapple juice, then grilled. You get about a pound of the stuff with this breakfast, which you probably won’t finish; we were also asked if we wanted seconds of rice. Sit at the counter to bypass a line and get lots of attention from the friendly counter servers.