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BREAKFAST IN RIPON
Good food, good coffee, good friends
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Four Ripon friends toast each other with their coffee mugs at Ripons My Garden restaurant on West Main Street at the corner of Wilma Avenue. They are, from left, Harold Van Duyn, Fred Van Duyn, Fred Drost and Gary Bolhuis who comes back to Ripon in the winter from his home in Montana. - photo by GLENN KAHL/The 209
Two restaurants in Ripon are the “people’s choice” for breakfast opening before dawn every morning of the week – Frank’s Place and My Garden Café.Both are located west of the old downtown in a shopping center at Wilma Avenue and West Main Street where certain farmers – regulars pretty much every day – go to be with friends and chat over their cups of coffee before daybreak. Those interested in more of a breakfast show up about 8:30 a.m.Frank Correa sold his restaurant on East Yosemite Avenue in Manteca about six years ago and opened Frank’s Place that has become one of the favorites to go for breakfast in Ripon. My Garden Café – just up the street – was opened about 12 years ago by Lisa Welch of Salida and was an almost instant favorite with the community.Welch quickly opened other locations after her first year in business with one in Sonora, two in Modesto and one in Ceres under the My Garden Café name.