Wanting to celebrate California's Reopening, we headed to Old Town for breakfast at the Swing Inn Café, a haunt we used to frequent when we first moved to Temecula.
Dining on their new patio allowed us to people watch and remember how the town used to be. It was delicious and fun.The quaint old timey Swing Inn Café is the oldest building in Old Town with its original business still in operation. Old newspaper photographs show author Erle Stanley Gardner meeting outside the café with actor Raymond Burr, who played Gardner’s fictitious Perry Mason in the popular TV series. Oh to have been here then!
When Charles and Sarah Clogston first opened a restaurant here in 1927, it was called Mother’s Café. Sarah was the daughter of Eli Barnett, one of the founders of the Temecula Bank. Over the next four decades owners and appearances changed infrequently. Though in 1964, Tommy Hotchkiss bought the café and eventually enlarged it from a burger place with seven stools to a full service restaurant the size it is today.
I love breakfast out. And how special it is when OUT is a place not only in your memories but in your reality, too. Here's to life as we once knew it!
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