Another Broken Egg Café

I had arrived in the West University neighborhood a bit early for my brunch reservation at the soft-opening for Another Broken Egg, and found easy parking right next to the restaurant, and decided to walk around a bit and take in the beautiful (finally felt like fall) afternoon. After we explored a cute little vintage boutique, and a strange little co-op, our tummies began to grumble. Brunch time!

First off, the interior of the place was truly so inviting and really what one would expect from a clean, comfortable, warm and inviting place to slow down, and enjoy a beautiful afternoon and meal. They do offer outdoor seating, but my mom and I really just wanted to take it all in and enjoy people watching, and honestly I wanted to see what everyone else was getting.

The first course my mom and I decided on was a bowl of Blackberry Grits. Blackberry grits are basically southern style grits topped with blackberry compote. Let me tell you something: I've never been able to actually LIKE grits outside of my home, but these were something special. My mom said they were the best thing she'd had in a while.

They were so creamy, and a they actually had a bit of a chew which provides an amazing texture. The blackberry lent an almost desert-like-decadence while still being completely appropriate for breakfast. Basically, you should go get some.

For our entrees, I settled on quite possibly the least brunchy thing on the menu: The Grilled Tuna Wasabi salad - fresh gulf tuna, seared rare and sliced over mixed greens with cucumber, red onion & mandarin oranges. Drizzled with wasabi mayo, served with Oriental vinaigrette.


The Ahi tuna on my salad was perfect for me, but I can see it leaned more toward totally rare than seared. I wouldn't have it any other way, but that's me. The quality was where the tuna wasn't at all fishy, had a really wonderful firm and tender texture, and the flavor bordered on mildly sweet. The wasabi mayo added just enough heat, but it didn't overwhelm at all.


My mom got the second least brunchy thing on the menu: The Southern Shrimp Salad - Marinated, grilled shrimp atop a bed of spring mix, with cucumber, mandarin oranges, sliced strawberries, feta & sprouts.


Yes I wanted brunch, and some of you might be confused about the salads, but isn't that the beautiful thing about brunch? You can get whatever the heck you want! We had grits, and salad. To add more breakfast to the mix, I got a side of some country potatoes to even everything out.


I can't finish talking about Another Broken Egg Café - Austin without mentioning the franchise co-owner Cody. The passion he has in this business and the drive he embodies is really very stimulating as someone who shares similar passions. The excitement he had in his smile and the truly charming nature about him made the experience very special. He made the rounds around the restaurant, taking time to talk to each and every person, and made a genuine effort to shake everyone's hand and share a few moments with each party. I was impressed, to say the least.

Another Broken Egg just opened on November 7th and I have a feeling it may fill its seats quickly from all of buzz. Being the brunch enthusiast myself, Another Broken Egg caught my taste buds' attention. So, I set
time aside last Friday morning to quench my curiosity.

Holy Mimosas! Brunch just isn't brunch to me without my favorite morning drink. And, oh how delicious it was! Another Broken Egg's Mimosa isn't your ordinary run of the mill mimosa. They take pride in what they serve. Their mimosas are made with Prosecco, an Italian sparkling white wine, that sets them apart from the mimosas you'll get at any other brunch place in Austin. (Believe me, I know. I'm a self-proclaimed Mimosa expert) If you're as much of a mimosa fan as I am, this is is a must-order for you.

Then it was on to the mouth-watering biscuit beignets. The ratio of powdered sugar to bread was spot on and they were still warm and perfect when I ate them. I could honestly eat their beignets all day long. They are so absolutely delicious and melt in your mouth!

You can find my full review with photos on my personal blog: http://misslizaface.com/post/12657701892/another-broken-egg-austin-my-new-favorite-brunch

Another Broken Egg - Austin is definitely my new brunch hot spot.

This is right down the street from my house and it's been open for about 3 weeks. I've already been here three times and I keep wanting to go back for more. I'm satisfied everytime!!

The belgian waffle is AMAZING. the shrimp florentine is AMAZING. and the biscuits and gravy are AMAZING.

Everything here is soooo good! I strongly recommended this place to anyone who doesn't mind paying a couple more bucks for a classy atmosphere and delicious breakfast/brunch.

Me and some coworkers came here for lunch and found the place relatively empty. Our waiter was quick and attentive, brought our drinks and took our orders fairly rapidly. We split some of the beignets, which came with orange marmalade something or other. They were fresh, light and powdered with sugar. The orange marmalade sauce, which I thought would have added a lot to the beignet, didn't actually add that much.

I got the mardi gras as my main entree, but they forgot to give me the english muffin that was supposed to come with it. They give you a lot of homefries too, and those were very good. Not greasy, not too salty and nice and crisp. The omelet itself was very imbalanced. The sweetness from the crawfish was at times overpowering and the andouille sausage, which I expected to be the strongest flavored ingredient, didn't taste like anything. I also realized they didn't add milk to the eggs for the omelet to soften it or any type of pancake batter to fluff it. Well, the problem with that is then you can a relatively crispy edge, tougher omelet. Sure, dairy deflates it a bit, but rather not be needing a knife just to cut my omelet instead of my fork.

On top of it all, I paid probably close to 1.5 times what I'd pay at Ihop for an omelet. Not saying this wasn't great and definitely on a different level than ihop, but who would pay $12-15 for breakfast/brunch? Especially near a college campus? Wrong market...

We ate here for brunch this morning. I had the bananas foster french toast and my husband had a cheeseburger. Delicious on both accounts. It was a little pricier than I'd usually think to pay for breakfast, but still good. The manager (owner?) stopped by our table just to say hello, which was nice. I want to go back and try the Southern crab stack some time soon.

Since we came in through the back door, I think we may have scared a waitress a little when we snuck up to the hostess station. If you go, I suggest using the front door if you don't want to weird out the staff and all the rich people enjoying their nice brunch.

I received a postcard last December for a free order of beignets with a breakfast entree purchase. Since I got the postcard, I had been wanting to try this place out. Beignets bring back memories of when my daughter was just walking. My husband and I used to take her for leisurely Saturday breakfasts by going to Cresent City Beignets, which had closed down a few years ago.

Now, we are a family of four. We took everyone last week for lunch. The service was totally horrible. Yes, we came during weekend lunch time rush hour, around 12:30 pm. But we must have sat there waiting for our food for 30 - 45 minutes. My young son kept telling me he's hungry.

I ordered one of their potato skillet. This is one of those dish with fried country style potatoes, topped with cheese and two other toppings of your choice. I chose mushroom and sausage. The potatoes, which disproportionately was the major ingredient, were a bit on the salty side. When my hubby heard this kind of comment from me, he would ask "Where did you put my wife?", as I love savory/salty dishes. The mushroom was a bit sparse, I could probably count the pieces with the fingers on my two hands. The sausages were too dry. Overall, my dish was quite disappointing.

With this kind of experience, I am not sure I want to go back.

Cute brunch place with bright colors. Atmosphere is not too loud for a group of ladies to have a conversation.

I went on and on about the biscuit beignets and had to order them for us to share. Formed crust with a tender crumb inside = perfectly fried pillows. They come with honey orange marmalade which they make fresh in-house as told by our waiter. It was TASTY.

The cinnamon roll french toast was recommended by someone who goes there often. Read the description and I was hooked. French toast alone gets me excited so any version is a go! Yes, sugar is good. There was fruit on it. That totally counts. Now let me just roll out of my chair home.

Walked into this place after a TV fail at a bar down the street as I wanted to watch a football game. I had noticed as I walked by earlier that there was a small bar with a couple TVs showing the games.

The bartender quickly took our drink orders and handed us a food menu. I realized everyone sitting at the bar was an employee, and who I assume was the manager offered to turn on the volume "since they were closed". So wow, they let us in and graciously served us outside of business hours! I ordered the Cajun Tuna Sandwich which was seared, dusted in Cajun seasonings, topped with cucumber, alfalfa sprouts and came on a Kaiser roll with smoked tomato mayo. The seasonings were great and caused my drink to disappear quicker than I had intended (next time will order a glass of water). The veggies were fresh the the tuna steak was good quality and a generous portion.

Some of the employees were eating a burger and a couple others were eating the french toast, both looked delicious and they raved about how wonderful the french toast is.

I really hate to write a negative review about Another Broken Egg, especially since my friends on the East Coast like it so much.

But, you gotta do what you gotta do.

First off, the wait was terrible. On Sunday at 11:30am, we waited for almost an hour to get a table. That's not bad for a Sunday, but you know what was? Seeing the empty tables and hearing the hostesses say that they wanted to wait to seat their customers to give the cooks a break. HELLO?! You're going to leave your GUESTS seated OUTSIDE and make them wait, without asking them if they wanted something to drink? To me, that made no sense at all.

Once we finally got a table, our waitress was not very welcoming, but rather looked tired and lethargic. I'm not going to complain about her too much.

Food:
- I got the biscuit beignets at the recommendation of fellow Yelpers. It was a nice, faint reminder of what you'd get in NOLA, but that's it. A nice reminder. And at $4 for 8 beignets, underwhelming. The marmalade was just TOO sweet too. It definitely overpowered the beignets.
- Biscuits and gravy. I've become somewhat of a biscuit and gravy connoisseur. I appreciate that their biscuits are home-made, which is nice. However, the gravy was just thick and bland, not the sausage-embedded gravy that should accompany a biscuit. This probably ranks outside the top three that I've ever had.
- Homemade sausage. This was probably one of the redeeming things about this place. I really liked their homemade sausage! It was moist and had the faintest kick, but was a little sweet too. Confused? Get it.

All in all, a long, sad morning. We didn't leave til almost 2, which is kind of a long brunch... I don't know if i'm headed back here again.

My husband and I had breakfast here one lovely Saturday morning. I had the French toast with scrambled eggs and bacon which was light and fluffy,while the Hubster had a potato skillet dish with ham, onions and cheese. The food was outstanding, but our server seemed stressed out. She apologized twice for not bringing our drinks order yet and we had been there only 10 minutes! The food (and drinks) came in a timely fashion, so I'm not sure why she felt the need to apologize. She had several large groups to deal with, so I kinda felt bad for her.
She gave us the drinks for free, so I wouldn't complain, EXCEPT.........the menu said "fresh squeezed orange juice" and it was definitely not. It tasted good, but if you say it's fresh squeezed, it had better be fresh squeezed.