Chris Fried, co owner of the Riverside Cafe at 7704 Ivory (and otherwise known as "dinerchick" on the P-D's Eat at Joe's forum), announced this morning that she was reluctantly closing the popular Carondelet neighborhood institution today due to her husband's hospitalization a month ago. Said Fried in the post: " I can't run a place and be at his side."
In an era of mediocre $10 breakfasts, Riverside's portions, prices, and neighborly attitude (especially Chris') will be missed. Back in a June 2009 Cheap Eats feature , SLM gave a shout to Riverside and its slinger-esque Big Biscuit Breakfast (ordered so often it was known simply as the BBB): a split biscuit, sausage patties, fried eggs, 2 slices of cheese, topped with sausage gravy. Back in 2009, it was $6. With coffee. Other breakfasts, including a humongous Eggs Benedict, were similarly priced.
Having suffered a brain aneurysm, Scott Fried remains in a coma. Thoughts and prayers, people, thoughts and prayers.
