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Categories: American (Traditional), Breakfast & Brunch [Edit]
Neighborhoods: Williamsburg - South Side, Williamsburg - North SideBedford Ave (L)
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How can you not love a place that serves breakfast for dinner? How can you not love a place that serves collard greens and cheesy grits?
The decor is pretty stark (much like an egg), but the food is very light and doesn't sit like a brick in your stomach. My friends and I very much loved our food, but we didn't find the dining space very comfortable or warm.
Yes I would like my beer right f-ing away on a Friday night...and then I want another one. Note to the current hostess: If I have to ask twice, you screwed up. Don't give me an exasperated "Everything is coming!". Just bring the damn beer and smile.
The fried chicken is good but boring. Sides are usually the star in a meat and two wannabe but they are again good but not outstanding here. For instance, they do a really vinegary version of collards. I got used to it but would not do it again. My tablemate, Johnny Reb, spit it out. But, we both loved the cheese grits. His duck and dumplings special was 5 stars. We ended up splitting it.
Not sure if I would go back. Maybe for breakfast.
Mmm. Egg.
When I'm not half-dead before 2PM on a Sunday afternoon, I try to make it to Egg for brunch. What I like: cheddar grits! Scrambled eggs! Eggs Rothko! Bacon! Oh, and sometimes brunch comes with a complimentary and amazingly tiny donut (hole).
Drawbacks: the one time I went to Egg for non-brunch was lunch. BAD IDEA. I got a chicken sandwich and my friend got the chorizo sandwich. Cruisin' for a bruisin'! My chicken sandwich was blander than bland and bigger than Texas, and my friend's chorizo thing was overpoweringly flavored. Yuk x2. Also, uh, don't pay $3 for a personal French press. Their coffee is no good. (What people mistake for "strength" of coffee is actually the fact that the shit is roasted out of the beans and then over-steeped when it gets to your table, delivering an especially smoldering, dirt-like cup of blech.) And yeah, the wait is long, but I mean, whatever, bring a book, antsy-pants.
So, only go for brunch (and dinner, I hear).
Mmm. Egg.
Egg has been slipping. It's still REALLY good, but when you're waiting for up to an hour to be seated, you expect amazing. And they used to deliver. But now... the past three times I've eaten there have included some telltale signs.
1) Kale - much too salty, kinda burned, and this past time, I noticed they stopped cutting it up so now you just get a huge stalk of it. Hm.
2) Omelette - a lot of people will disagree with me but there can be such a thing as too much cheese. As an experiment, I ordered the omelette with half the amount of Grafton Cheddar as usual, and it was perfect. No grease puddle!
3) Brioche. My friend's egg-in-hole order was made with a piece of burnt brioche. It was not black, but it was definitely well past well done.
To be clear: I will ALWAYS love Egg and doubt I'll ever stop going there. But, I just can't stand by my 5 star review anymore. Maybe I'll update again. I hope so.
Okay. At this point I've re-evaluated my stance on customer service. If the food is any less than… Read more »
4 stars and not 5 because their current hostess straight up sucks.
We were waiting there for an HOUR after being told that our wait would be about 20 minutes and were told we were the "next table" for 30 minutes after promising us "10 more minutes" several times. She seated 4 groups before our 4 person group (both larger and smaller). If I hadn't been craving the Rothko eggs like a mofo I would have left, also I'm a total sucker and when someone says "no really, you're up next" I want to believe them.
I know the wait is often long I've been eating here for years but this grows absurd. I'll wait an hour on amazing food but for some reason "amazing" has turned into "good" as they've gotten more popular.
I'll start by saying that I hate waiting to get a table for brunch - Why should I wait to eat when I'm hungover/tired/ornery/cold/hot, etc.? With that, I heard so many great things about Egg that I settled and decided we had to wait because it would be worth trying. I went on a recent Saturday morning with one friend (it's easier to get a table just for two, you know?), and despite the 45-minute wait, I think this is a must-try for anyone who likes good, genuinely well-prepared breakfast food.
Egg is extremely popular and now I know why. The restaurant itself is really nothing more than a bare-walled room with an eclectic mix of tables and chairs (with paper tablecloths and crayons for all the kids and big kids!), but the food is what is so great here. The menu presents a fresh, New American twist on brunch with an emphasis on locally sourced and sustainably harvested ingredients. I had the Eggs Rothko, which was essentially a thick piece of bread topped with a sunny-side up egg, and cheese, but it was SO good. Ahh, I can't even stop talking about it. Served with their homemade breakfast sausage, it was one of the best breakfast dishes I've had in a long time. With that, the menu is relatively small, but well thought out, and in looking around at what everyone else was eating, it looks like everything on the menu is great.
The restaurant is tight and you might get in someone else's way on your way to your seat, but it's all worth the little hassles. The dishes are priced extremely reasonably, the portions are enormous and the service is efficient and friendly. Definitely a must-try and must-go-back place for an awesome brunch.
The inside is nice and the staff is attentive, but my french toast was soggy like a lost sponge in the the East River and my orange juice was watery like the tears in my eyes when I got the check.
Lack luster service: waiting by the door for minutes without being acknowledged gave me a bad taste in my mouth that was only furthered once the hostess/waitress actually acknowledged us with her lackluster self.
Lackluster food: Pale, soggy hash browns, pulpy mush passed off as a broiled tomatoe, greasey eggs passed off as "cheesy." Impressed by the french press but the coffee was acrid - I never use sugar and cream and here I piled/poured it on.
Lackluster me: sucked the life out me. NEVER BELIEVE THE HYPE.
Cash only.
I'd give egg 3.5 stars for breakfast. Went with my roommates and everyone really enjoyed what they had. A great place to get a tasty breakfast.
Biscuits & gravy w/ pork sausage was a little too peppery for me.
Loved that they have scrapple on the menu, and it was probably the best tasting item that I ordered although I'm not sure that it was made of all the "parts" that scrapple is normally made from.
My friend and I trekked an hour from manhattan to get here today. The wait on Saturday is quite long unless you get there earlier. We waited for about 30-45 minutes for a party of two. The two of us got biscuits and gravy, chorizo & eggs, a side of hash browns and a side of sausage. I really really like the atmosphere of the place as well as the food of course. The flavors are very clean and no one's rushing you out! Also, in the beginning they give you this cinnamon sugar covered donuts that tastes like churros, yum!! When we were leaving, we had to get a biscuit to go, and it came wit homemade strawberry jam! I love strawberry jam and can eat it with a spoooooon by itself! Loved this place, would come back again ;)
ORGASMIC breakfast!!! Wish I could give it 10 stars.
They source their cheese from Wisconsin! They have French press coffee! Their eggs are cooked PERFECTLY!! The waitress was helpful and friendly! Ahhhh I am going crazy just thinking about it because I'm now in Toronto so I can't have it whenever I want anymore!! :*(
I miss you Egg!!!
On a quiet Tuesday morning
my lackluster service provided me:
Just one cup of coffee,
A plate with missing hash,
Undercooked bacon,
Two cold eggs,
And a receipt for an overpriced breakfast.
I like Egg. It has all these weird breakfast concoctions on the menu that I wouldn't ever think of ordering in real life. Plus, their food comes from the "farm", though I'm not sure which parts, everything? Not clear, I don't know. I ate here twice, once I had the kale dish, second I had eggs Rothko. Both were very hearty, creative, and delicious. My dining partner had the very much talked about fried chicken, we found it tasty and crispy, but could have used more spice.
As for the complaints in service, I didn't feel affected at all. Seemed like any other hipster-filled restaurant in Williamsburg. The crayons and paper on the table ROCK.
Simply put... its the best breakfast I had ever tasted.
It's no wonder that all you taste is freshness when most of the produce comes from their own farm. I ordered the standard, hash browns, eggs, and toast and it was better than expected, actually the best!
This is a place where you can go to have coffee and leave thinking that was the best cup i'd ever had. there i something about their beans and the individual coffee press.
If you are in the area just try it, the toast and coffee alone will keep me coming back.
AWESOME candied bacon. AWESOME.
OK I was just expecting sugar-cured bacon (like that served in Clinton St Baking Co) but the candied bacon is .... SUPER AWESOME.
Had the biscuits and gravy with sausage. That was pretty yummy. Good ole southern taste. Also tried the grits (alright... I'm just not that much a grits person), omelette, and the hash brown was pretty darn good too.
BTW cash only. yeah, well, whatever.
While we were initially trying to beat the crowds and hoping to get here at 11am, we ended up here at 1125am and still had to wait quite a bit for a table. Good thing is we scored the huge table outdoors so didn't have to be cramped up like the others.
Great breakfast/brunch spot. The broiled tomatoes are great, I literally want to put them on everything I order. You can definitely have just that and be satisfied! I tend to go there for breakfast on the weekends and I always get "Two eggs any style" with a biscuit instead of toast. The hashbrowns are awesome and so is the coffee. The atmosphere is lovely, though crowded and they don't take cc's which sucks (but not enough to deduct a star!).
I highly recommend this spot... Happy eating!
This place is the m*****f****** s**t yo...never before have I ever had such good breakfast food and I doubt I will again in this lifetime. If you live anywhere in the 5 boroughs, you have no excuse not to get your ass out here for breakfast one of these days, that's all I gotta say.
One of my friends raved about this place for ages, so I decided to give it a try. He warned me to not go near it on the weekends for breakfast because it would be a crazy long wait.
Not the case, which was great since we didn't have a ton of time to wait.
My best friend was visiting from Seattle and I decided that we should try this place out for breakfast on a Saturday morning. No wait, we were seated right away.
The decor of Egg is great. Clean white walls with simple furnishings and I am always a fan of places that let you color on the place settings.
My friend ordered the French Toast that is made with Amy's Bread Brioche and I ordered the biscuits and gravy. I am happy to say that they use high quality ingredients, local and organic whenever they can get it. The biscuits and gravy had a LOT of sausage which isn't always the case with this dish. The gravy, however, was bland and incredibly disappointing, My friend's french toast was great. I do prefer the Amy's Bread Challah to the Brioche though... it makes much better french toast in my opinion. The hashbrown was interesting and very good but a little too greasy for my taste. The biscuits were very soft and tasty and the complimentary doughnuts before the meal came out were awesome.
My friend also ordered a side of sausage and just as he was cutting in to the second patty, there was a nice long hair that was wrpped on to the end of the fork. That was pretty much the end of breakfast.
When choosing breakfast places in the future, I don't think I would pick this one again which is sad because I am a big fan of breakfast and this one came so highly recommended.
Dare I say that EGG was as good as, if not even BETTER than my Manhattan favorite breakfast at Clinton Street Bakery? There are obviously things to consider: I went with my favorite person to eat with, it was an absolutely beautiful day, and there was barley even a wait (I've been to Clinton St and been quoted 3 hours yikes!)...but I think it may have just been the food.
I love the decor in this place: bare high white walls and small wooden tables. I may have been hallucinating, but I swear taylor swift was on the radio. It reminded me of a well kept barn--and the food reflected this freshness (all grown on their organic farm!)
I ordered the Grafton cheddar 3-egg omlette with a side of perfectly cooked hash browns and broiled tomatoes. James H. and I also split the carmalized grapefruit with mint. The graffton cheddar omlette didn't even taste like your usual egg--it was much smoother and rich. The broiled tomatoes are what really got me, as its almost tomato season and I've been holding out for August. They were incredible, so full of flavor and perfectly plump and succulent.
Make sure to go before this places gets too popular, because it will, and then you'll really have to complain about the wait.
Meh. Had brunch (Country Ham Biscuit) since I love me some biscuits. First of all the whole meal was flavorless and just not good. The biscuit was hard, not too hot, chalky and just bleh. The wife had the Eggs Rothko which was better but not great. I'll try again someday for lunch/dinner but not impressed with brunch.
Another all around gripe but egg belongs, what the hell is with the no credit cards in NYC at a lot of restaurants???? I feel a lot of places don't accept and it's laaame.
finally went here for dinner after many aaaamazing brunches. the best thing about dinner is there's not the same line, hopefully there won't be soon, but there may be soon. dinner was fantastic, and with the same local farm rasied foods, killer southern twist. same is true of dinner as breakfast: can't go wrong with the grits.
Maybe it was was because I was fucking starving.
Maybe it's because I've been devoid of NYC cuisine for 2 months.
Maybe it's because I was with the wonderful Ariel K. for the first time in 2 months.
But Egg was maybe the best breakfast I have ever had in NYC.
Drawing their ingredients from organic farms from upstate NY and producing their own organic eggs, Egg takes new-age hipster healthy and infuses it with Southern Loving in a way that made me orgasm with every bite.
Coffee - Fresh free-trade Sumatra, french pressed, best coffee I've had in months.
Eggs Rothko - An enormous slice of five-grain bread covered in two eggs over easy, globs of sharp Grafton Cheddar cheese, 4 strips of candied bacon (you can choose from many different meats or seasonal veggies/fruits) and broiled tomatoes (which were the best tomatoes I have ever had. One can only dream of a more succulent juicy tomato). At $8.50 I was absolutely blown away.
Caramelized Grapefruit - I've never had warm grapefruit, nor have I had sweetened grapefruit. Combined = sex in my mouth. $3.50.
Ariel K. got the three egg omelette. See her review. (though I had a bite and it was fucking awesome).
I wish I could eat here every day for breakfast. So so so so so so so good.
First of all, I have to emphasize that the food was quite excellent and strongly suggest at least trying Egg once, especially if you live in the Williamsburg area.
The extra crispy hash browns are a must-try! Also, the french toast rocks like no other (it's in the brioche bread).
The downsides include tight-quarters seating, sparse service, and a bit of a high price tag. There's also no indoor area to wait for a free table and it was raining when I went, so that wasn't so great. I imagine it to b more annoying in the winter.
It's not for every weekend, but I'll be back here soon!
First off, I can see why some people may have given this place low reviews, or have been frustrated. It's small, there are only a couple of servers, and the wait on a weekday morning was 30 minutes.
However, the food I had heard made the wait and small space more than worth while.
My boyfriend and I ordered a glass of fresh squeezed grapefruit juice. For my meal, I ordered the French Toast with a side of bacon, and cheese grits. Damian ordered the Grafton Cheddar Omelet with broiled tomatoes, which included hash browns as well.
The french toast was fluffy, slightly sweet, and literally melted in your mouth. I love bacon in any shape or form, so, it was perfect. But the cheese grits were un-fucking-believable. Only my mom has ever made cheese grits NEARLY this delicious.
Damian's omelet was this smooth, silky, fluffy egg, and the cheese it it was of such a color and texture, you couldn't tell it apart from the egg itself. The result was the smoothest, most delicious omelet I've tasted. The texture was such an anomaly, we had to ask how it was made; with cream? milk? She said they simply used clarified butter.
The hashbrown was also a hell of a treat; it was a dark brown fried ball of potatoes; when broken open a tasty, tender ball of hashbrown goodness was revealed. I LOVE EGG.
I believe an assassin prepared my food.
The hasbrowns were dangerously salty - so intense, they burned the tongue. I could only eat little nibbles and essentially used them like a condiment - to season the rest of my meal.
it was just bacon and eggs, how could they f that up? the most basic greasy spoon doesnt fk it up that bad. dennys does a better job.
this place rocks. if you go for b'fast/brunch, you'll probably have to wait by putting your name on the chalkboard. I hate waiting, but this place is worth it.
Winners include the Eggs Rothko for b'fast and the killer Chicken sandwich for lunch. the biscuits and the free donuts are good too.
The decor is kind of a hole in the wall but who cares. I guess the lack of decor or capital put into it keeps the prices down.
I'll admit that the problem with this place is most likely me; but I was severely turned off from Egg after my very first visit. For many years I was a gleeful patron of Sparky's because they would smother my (veggie) hot dog or make me a buttery grilled cheese with that phenomenally sharp and so complex that it's like I can close my eyes and see the farm the cows lived on and feel the sun and the rain on my face and taste the earth that the grass grew out of Grafton Cheddar! When Egg moved in they continued to use the same stupendous cheese, and so on my first visit I of course ordered the dish with the highest cheese-to-whatever ratio, the Grafton Cheddar Omelet with broiled tomatoes ($8.5)
But the dish disgusted me the minute it hit the table... it's a big pile of beige! The plate overflowed with shiftless lumps of pale beige omelet, dark beige hash browns and pockmarked pulpy tomatoes that all looked the same... but worst, they all taste the same. Maybe this whole southern style cooking thing is lost on me, because I imagine this is what its like to subsist on gruel. No thank you!
I know, I know, I should have heeded Yelp advice and ordered the Eggs Rothko... but how could I have known that ordering to maximize cheese intake would be a bad thing....
Check out the alien-looking hash browns in the reader photos. They're the bomb: a perfectly crispy, salty, almost Crustacean packet of fried potatoes. And they're only one of the standout menu items at Egg, which is wildly, justifiably popular. Other exceptional dishes include the Grafton cheddar omelet served with broiled tomatoes; the biscuit with ham and fig compote; and of course the complimentary donuts that precede your meal. Enough cannot be said about starting off your meal with these delicious knots of fried, homemade dough. It's the perfect preamble to a Southern breakfast that is smart and shockingly delicious (although not for the faint of heart), almost regardless of what you order.
The decor is great -- pared down and clean, with minimal detailing and great southern light in the morning. Paper placemats, crayons on the table, simple glassware, and coffee arrives in individual French presses.
The crowd is the usual Williamsburg weekend brunch hassle: fresh-out-of-bed hipsters and the girls who've just slept with them, plus a smattering of parents and Manhattanites tired of waiting three hours to eat at Clinton St. Bakery. NB: annoyingly high stroller density at Egg in recent months (or at least that was the trend when I was last a habitue).
Don't be deterred. Egg is awesome. Go early or on a weekday if you can manage it (they open early) and savor it sans toddlers. For a while I lived a block away, and came to Egg pretty much every Sunday morning with my girlfriend. Now I've changed apartments and girlfriends (c'est la vie), and I don't eat at Egg that often. But sometimes as I'm passing by I get wistful for the donuts (and pretty much everything else on the menu).
P.S. dinner here is also excellent, especially the fried chicken, which might be the best this side of K-Town.
We happened upon the place at exactly the right time on a Sunday morning. OK, so we still had to wait for 45 minutes, but after that, the two parties of 6 in front of us were nowhere to be found, so they sat the four of us at a table where we could actually move around.
The only downside being the stinkeye we continually received from the party of seven seated next to us at the exact same size table. They looked horribly cramped, and were clearly envious that since my legs weren't mashed together, I might be able to procreate.
As we deliberated over the simple menu, they brought out little donuts for everyone. They were nice, almost beignet-like, and you can't really complain about a little lagniappe.* And then after we ordered, they brought us more! Obviously an oversight, but a happy one.
I decided on the chorizo and eggs. Living up to the promise of their name, they cooked them a perfect over-medium. The chorizo, ground up and mixed with jalopenos, was geusioleptic** and had the perfect amount of spice. I think I made the best choice.
Her French toast was not everything I expected it to be. I believe the term she used was "yeasty." It was nice, but there is better French toast around. The seasonal fruit turned out to be nothing but strawberries, and the two egg plate was exactly that. Well-executed, but eggs alone can only be so good.
*OK, maybe a little. I would've vastly preferred if they were warm.
**I learned this word in the elevator. It means flavorful. http://Dictionary.com doesn't even know it. What.
I don't see what the hypes all about. Any place with the word "Egg" in its name automatically gets 5 stars in my book and really has to try hard to lose them.
Complaint numero uno: The place is ridiculously hot and uncomfortable. Fortunately for the restaurant the weather in NY has been crappy all summer. Down to 4 stars.
Complaint 2: The Grafton cheddar omelet was more cheese and not so much egg. The cheese was over powering and the ratio of strong cheese to egg seemed to be close to 1:1 Toast isn't included in the dish and will run you an extra couple of bucks. Down to 3 stars.
Complaint 3: I really do love eggs and wished there were more actual egg dishes on the menu. I just felt the menu was a bit limited. Oh yea and they forgot to bring me my side of grits. 2 stars it is.
Go find a diner, shell out 5 bucks, don't wait on line, and get yourself a couple of fried eggs with toast and a coffee.
Today was a very special day for me, and when I have those special days I sometimes like to treat myself to breakfast out.
I'd heard great things about Egg (especially their breakfast), so I made the trek over to Williamsburg after studying their menu earlier this week.
I often think about portion size, but don't always mention it in my reviews. After all, portion size carries some pretty hefty symbolic meaning, right?
Big portions connote value (or, at the very least, a generous invitation to pig-out to your heart's delight). Small portions, by contrast, connote refinement, delicacy, connoisseurship. I guess a smaller serving works to focus your attention on the food you're eating. Because it's small, you are obliged to register every bite.
That's the funny thing about egg. The menu would lead you to think that the portions would defeat a big-rig trucker carrying hogs to market. But, instead, they're quite delicate.
I'm not sure how I even feel about the portion size here...I mean, you don't go to this place because you're looking for the best possible deal you can find. You go because you like that they have their own farm supplying them with the goods, because you like the fact that they use old school chairs for seats, etc.
Should a serving of scrapple be delicate? Should we focus on our scrapple so closely? I leave that for you to decide. Anyway, it tasted gooood here, spicy, fatty with a nice crunchy exterior. Great scrambled eggs, too. Rich and light.
They serve coffee in French presses, which I personally love (although it does get the restaurant off the hook from providing re-fills).
I'd take a place like this for my own neighborhood. I'd probably go often. I'm not sure I'd make the trip out to somebody else's neighborhood just for breakfast, here, though.
My server was really nice -- She was great.
Despite the name, the best dish to get here is the fried chicken. Rarely do you find a place in the city (except for maybe Birdie's) that takes the time to actually brine their chicken properly.
The egg dishes I have had here were acceptable to good. The rothko is ineffably rich, whereas the grit was ...meh. Overcooked and didn't have the same grit-ness or interesting flavor profiles that grits from, say little giant and tocqueville, have.
Also, I'd avoid coming here before 1:30 or 2 on weekends unless you have an hour or two to kill.
I usually shy away from writing reviews of places this popular and with so many reviews.
So let me just say a couple of words about the pulled pork sandwiches.
I lived in North Carolina for a couple years, so I like to act like I'm a BBQ expert. The BBQ at Egg is as close to NC BBQ as I have had in New York. It's vinegar-based, it's sloppy as hell, and it's murder on the buns. It's slightly spicier than most BBQ I've had, but that's OK. I love to sweat while I eat.
Our server was sweet, but a little easily distracted, and maybe not quite as attentive as we would have liked. But what the hell, it's good, cheap and trendy.
Cute hole in the wall, really delish coffee..I liked the donuts they bring for the table. Also like the crayons so you can draw on the table...gave it 3 stars bc the service was slow and even though my French toast was mostly delish, it was super soggy in the middle. Eggs and hash brown were decent. Overall a cute breakfast place, but not amazing.
Great priced brunch. Awesome selection of breakfast meats. No bloody Marys is the only downside.
Egg accepted my challenge and I'm happy to say that my second visit was pretty close to perfect (they were out of High Hope Farms Scrapple...grr...).
- 3-Egg Grafton Cheddar Omelet with Broiled Tomatoes and Hash Browns ($8.50)
- Side of Candied Bacon ($3.50)
- Country Ham Biscuit with Homemade Fig Jam, Grafton Cheddar, and Grits ($7.50)
- Sauteed Apples ($4.50)
- Pot of Mint Tea ($1.50)
- French Press Coffee ($2.25)
So much delicious food for such a small bill! And unlike other boastfully organic/sustainable restaurants, you can really taste the freshness and overall quality of the ingredients at Egg. After signing up for a table on the giant pad of paper outside the door, we were seated in less than ten minutes on Easter morning. Was everyone at home getting their prayer on or what? It's usually packed on weekends! The service was much more attentive than my last visit and we left feeling full and happy. Why can't every brunch be this relaxing?
I met my out-of-town friend here for breakfast on a weekday morning, and was pleased to be seated… Read more »
I have been wanting to go here for a year... But it seems every time I go there is some ridiculous wait in which I usually wander elsewhere. But this morning was a Monday and my boyfriend and I were on a mission to try it. There wasn't a wait which was nice. We ordered 2 fried eggs, bacon, and toast. Which was great and reasonable priced. We also ordered the Brioche french toast which was lovely nice and fluffly not dense like most. Nice strong french press coffee. All with a 25 dollar price tag, not bad considering most breaky places now days are charging a whopping 12 dollars for eggs and toast. I felt like this was a pretty good deal. YUM once bad note! Music was awful and service was a little slow but this is expecting in the Burg ;)
Fantastic! We have tried to go here numerous times for brunch/breakfast and the wait is ALWAYS too long to stomach. This time, we made an executive decision to wake up early and head over there before the rest of Wburg could take our table. We arrived at 9:30 and were seated right away (supposedly unheard of) and LET ME TELL YOU it was worth waking up for. The French Press coffee was awesome. I had the cheese omelet with amazing hash brown (more latke than hash browns but I'm a fan) and broiled tomatoes. OMG was it delish. And good prices, good service and good use of local farmers means 2 thumbs up from yours truly!
is it possible that all men from Kentucky are colonels? Col. Bill's country ham biscuit was smoky good. The fig jam a nice touch too. Grits could have had more seasoning - they were quite bland actually.
That being said, overall menu was perfect brunch food to satiate one's southern fix. Doughnut amuse bouche always appreciated (even better if they were warm).
There was however a very long wait - even at 1:30.
Egg is a nice place, little too expensive and busy, but nice. The line can get really long on weekends but it's in the trendy area of Williamsburg so it's easy to kill time. The menu is southern based with favorites like biscuits and gravy and the owners must me from PA because scrapple has found its way onto the menu. This is the first time in awhile that I've looked into a kitchen in Brooklyn and didn't see Mexican cooks so that might account for a higher standard of putting some love in the dishes. The place has bare white walls which would look better decorated to some extent. It's a small place but they really seem to care about what comes out of the kitchen. I'm sure I'll be back at least once or twice to try a little more.
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