Covered with palm trees from outside, The Shack restaurant, at 5201 Folsom Blvd., welcomes each customer with their chart of 70 available beers. This restaurant does more than most people would think a shack could do. They serve hot, flavorful fresh food for under $10 and most customers leave with leftovers.

Not only that, your server is likely to become your friend. Our server, Anthony, was checking in on us consistently and our food came out in less than 20 minutes. When it did come out, steam was hitting my face as I dug into the Jenny-Bene, a vegetarian eggs benedict.

While eating, I noticed that neon and aluminum beer signs take most of the wall space. During brunch, The Shack smelled of a combination of fried potatoes and antique wooden furniture. The open seating offers booths made of distressed wood and the tabletops covered with ancient photos of Sacramento. One photo was the construction of Tower Theatre in the 1930s and another was the price of a one-acre lot just off Elvas Avenue in 1933.

The Shack was filled with the chattering of children, families and young people, the sound of sizzling potatoes and Coffee Works coffee, a local coffee company, being brewed and refilled cup after cup.

Each plate passing in the hands of the smiling college-age servers was piled high, whether it was a breakfast burrito wrapped in a sunset-colored tortilla with sauce drizzled over the top, or eggs benedict stacked several inches tall.

My first bite filled my fork with a moon-shaped piece of an English muffin and a tomato dangling with cooked spinach, topped with a portion of a poached egg covered in hollandaise sauce. The textures meshed together with the crunchy English muffin to the slightly warmed tomato, the sliminess of cooked spinach, and the fresh egg white drooling with yoke. The hollandaise sauce brought each of this bite together to make an incredibly tasty first bite of Jenny-Bene.

For me, it was early to dig into the list of 70 beers but, the Bloody Mary washed my thirst away leaving my lips, tongue and throat sizzling from the spice. Spiked with a hot pepper, a stalk of celery, a lemon and cracked black pepper the SOJU Bloody Mary is recommended whether or not you are thirsty. In fact, if you drink enough you will have the pleasure of using the shack like bathroom stalls. Exiting the creaking door on the side of The Shack, customers are taken to a miniature shack covered in yellow paint and small “girls” and “boys” signs.

The Shack fulfills the growling stomach for comfort food in an elbows-on-the-table type atmosphere and beers from the entire world.

Vanessa Garibaldi can be reached at [email protected]