CBC Stampede Breakfast kicks off the 2010 Calgary Stampede season

Stampede breakfasts are a wonderful thing, and the CBC Calgary Eyeopener has become one of the best in town.  It's also the one of the first, and as far as I know, the first big one.

Thursday, that's tomorrow, July 8, 2010, in the parking lot at the CBC building, from 7 to 9 a.m.

The CBC's address is 1724 Westmount Boulevard NW but if you don't know Calgary, forget that and just drive along Memorial Drive heading west, and you'll find it about halfway between 14th Street and Crowchild Trail.

Once you know where it is, drive a few blocks into the neighbourhood and find a considerate place to park.  Yes, it may be challenging, but it can be done if you don't mind walking.

Better still by far, take Calgary Transit or get someone to drop you off.


CBC Stampede Breakfast webpage

Calgary Transit info webpage

And bless her heart, the lovely Julie Van Rosendaal has posted her recipe for great pancakes on the Calgary Eyeopener's website.  I heard them being made and eaten on the air the other day and if made me reach for the bottle.  (Of maple syrup.)

Where to find a pancake breakfast during the 2010 Calgary Stampede

And a big Yahoo again this year to the two pancake locator websites we saw last year.  Check out:

StampedeBreakfast.com

and

FlapJackFinder.com

And there's even an iPhone app for the Flap Jack Finder.

It's getting so easy to find just the right Stampede Breakfast.

The traditional breakfast is a pancake, usually with butter and syrup, and some kind of meat, either bacon or a sausage, and sometimes eggs too. You can always count on the pancake, but not the meat and eggs.  Any combo can happen.  Other extras:  coffee and juice.

There are lots of free breakfasts, and also some that have a cost, often in support of a community or charity group.

Wear your cowboy hat to breakfast.