Consider yourself lucky if you wait outside less than half an hour and get hit up for change only once – but fresh-baked goods come to those who wait at Dottie’s. Cinnamon-ginger pancakes, grilled chili-cheddar cornbread, scrambles with whiskey-fennel sausage and other breakfast staples hot off Dottie's griddle are tried and true blue.
Dottie’s True Blue Café
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