The second
instantiation of Cafe Milagro launched in March, 2005, not quite a year
after the first Cafe Milagro closed down at the same site. At
first glance, other than ownership and menu, not that much seems to have
changed. This trendy coffee bar and restaurant remains a great
place to go for breakfast, hot drinks, grilled panini sandwiches and hot
or cold sandwiches. Best of all, you can have a pretty good meal
or beverage while hooked up to the internet via Cafe Milagro's WiFi
connections.
Like its predecessor,
Cafe Milagro specializes in hot drinks, purporting to use the finest
coffee from all over the world as supplied by Red Rock roasters.
Not being caffeine crazed, I much prefer the hot chocolate made with
chocolate milk into which three Ghirardelli chocolates are added.
It is one of the best hot chocolate drinks in town. A wide variety
of fresh baked pastries is available daily. The cinnamon rolls are
prodigious and loaded with icing but direly lacking in the spice for
which these rolls are named. Also huge is a slice of pecan pie
which has the taste the Deep South loves.
From among the seven
grilled panini sandwiches on the menu, we've sampled three and the
Rubano Milagro is an early favorite. The restaurant's version of a
Ruben sandwich made Italian style, it features a basil herb focaccia
bread and a Dijon mustard piled with corned beef and fresh sauerkraut.
The focaccia on all the sandwiches is wonderful, but it's just a bit too
thick because it becomes the sandwich's prevalent taste.
Sandwiches are served with your choice of potato salad, coleslaw, or a
fresh side salad (available with a great green chile ranch dressing) in
addition to salsa and chips. The salsa is surprisingly good with
flecks of cilantro adding flavor.
