Category Archives: Breakfast

Wildberry Pancakes and Cafe, Chicago IL

Wildberry Pancakes and Café Bottomless Drip Coffee from Intelligentsia and $2 pure maple syrup (and a giant plate of syrup and butter) Red Velvet French Toast with Vanilla Anglaise and Fresh Strawberries Banana Bread French Toast with Cut Banana Signature … Continue reading →

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Little Branch Cafe, Chicago IL

Little Branch Café Cinnamon Roll Blueberry Scone Chocolate Chip Cookie Mascarpone Stuffed French Toast – 4 slices of brioche stuffed with mascarpone, grilled and topped with blueberry compote Selected largely as a result of its proximity to Burnham Harbor my … Continue reading →

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Brunch, Chicago IL

Brunch Fresh Baked Cinnamon Rolls Homemade daily and baked in a cast iron skillet, topped with sweet creamy icing Donut French Toast Two cake donuts, sliced, soaked with our homemade French toast batter and grilled until golden brown. Topped with … Continue reading →

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Daisy Café and Cupcakery, Madison WI

Daisy Café and Cupcakery Bottomless Coffee French Toast Strata (eggs, cream cheese, bread cubes, maple syrup) with oven roasted potatoes and fruit Morning Bun Lennie Small – Chocolate Bacon Bunny Face on Maple Buttercream Frosting, Baked Bean Cake with Coffee … Continue reading →

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Batch Bakehouse, Madison WI

Batch Bakehouse Carrot Cake Cupcake with Cream Cheese Frosting Bourbon Pecan and Salted Caramel Danish Strawberries and Cream Buttercake Monkey Bread Almond Croissant Located at 1402 Williamson Street and as such a logical follow-up to breakfast at Lazy Janes it … Continue reading →

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Lazy Jane’s Cafe, Madison WI

Lazy Jane’s Café Vanilla Coffee, Hazelnut Coffee, Organic French Roast, Light Roast Italian Smores Scone Maple Walnut Scone Blueberry Scone Morning Bun Almond Croissant Blueberry Pancakes Waking up early for a morning run around Madison it was after nearly ten … Continue reading →

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Greenbush Bakery, Madison WI

Greenbush Bakery Apple Fritter Almond Kringle Sour Cream Old Fashioned Blueberry Cake Donut Westward bound for Madison with dinner plans bumped back to seven it was to 1305 Regent Street that I set my GPS and arriving at Greenbush Bakery … Continue reading →

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The Comet Cafe, Milwaukee WI

The Comet Café Duck Confit Poutine with Fontina Cheese and Beer Gravy AJ’s Compact Turkey Dinner – Beer Battered Slow roasted Turkey, Sage Stuffing, Cheesy Mashed Potatoes Creamy Tomato Soup and Sauteed Zucchini Sourcream Pancake Blueberry Pie Having come to … Continue reading →

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Holey Moley Coffee + Doughnuts, Milwaukee WI

Holey Moley Coffee + Doughnuts Apple Fritter Fat Elvis Crème Brulee S’mores Bourbon Indonesian Vanilla C+DD – Coffee and Doughnut, Doughnut Picked as my second stop in Milwaukee given the impressive initial reviews and a planned visit to the Public … Continue reading →

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Blue’s Egg, Milwaukee WI

Blue’s Egg Grapes Apple Cheesecake Coffee Cake Monkey Bread “Crunked” with whiskey sauce Berry Smothered French Toast with almond crumble and white chocolate sauce, plus real maple syrup for $1 Key Lime Thumbprint, Chocolate Chippers, Maple Bacon Sugar Cookie Bottomless … Continue reading →

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Waffles Cafe, Chicago IL

Waffles Café Birthday Cake Wonut / Lemon Blueberry Wonut/ Mexican Chocolate Wonut Pound Cake French Toast with Balsamic Berries In search of something sweet after our disappointing lunch at Yum Cha it was to trendy hybrid food that we turned … Continue reading →

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Nico Osteria, Chicago IL

Nico Osteria Blueberry Coffee Cake, Kouign Amann, Strawberry Cream Cheese Roll Ricotta Bomboloni with Fior de latte, Vanilla Infused Honey, Fresh Preserves Oven Baked Pancake with Raspberries, Pistachios, Fior di latte, Burton’s Maple Syrup Porchetta Autostrada Sandwich with Roasted Purple … Continue reading →

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Stan’s Donuts & Coffee (North Damen,) Chicago IL

Stan’s Donuts & Coffee Biscoff Pocket Nutella Pocket Blueberry Old Fashioned Apple Fritter Pretzel Twist Maple Caramel Pecan Bacon Bar Imported from Los Angeles and all dressed up for a Chicago debut on Damen my early morning stop at Stan’s … Continue reading →

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Table, Donkey and Stick, Chicago IL

Table Donkey and Stick Bacon Steak – Fried Polenta, Gorgonzola, Picked Onion, Mushroom Jus, Poached Egg Fried Chicken – Smoked Potatoes & Corn, Chard, Spicy Aioli, Fried Egg Duck Sausage – Biscuit and Gravy, Caramelized Kale, Poached Egg Peach Coffee … Continue reading →

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Bad Wolf Coffee, Chicago IL

Bad Wolf Coffee Canele Blueberry Muffin Blueberry Buckle Cream Cheese Danish Located just minutes from Bakin’ & Eggs with Canele de Bordeaux guaranteed fresh from their copper molds at 10am it was only an unexpected closure due to the birth … Continue reading →

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Bakin’ & Eggs, Chicago IL

Bakin’ & Eggs Intelligentsia Coffee Bacon Donut with Maple Glaze Glazed and Raised Donut   Blueberry Scone Earl Grey and Golden Raisin Scone   Red Velvet Cupcake Carrot Cake Cupcake Triple Berry Pancakes – Raspberry, Strawberry, and lots o’ Blueberries … Continue reading →

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Cellar Door Provisions, Chicago IL

Cellar Door Provisions Kouign Amann Ricotta Peach Muffin    Canele Located in Logan Square, with a wall mounted menu that is rewritten daily, Cellar Door Provisions can best be described as a labor of love; a collaboration of three friends … Continue reading →

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The Griddle Cafe at SLS, Las Vegas NV

The Griddle Café Saturday Morning Fever Boozy panCAKE Shake – Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, Griddled Buttermilk Cake, Bailey’s, Kahlua, Sweet Cream French Press – Medium Roast Mouthful of Yum – Godiva Chocolate Liqueur and Crushed Butterfinger with Brown sugar-baked bananas … Continue reading →

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The Perq, Las Vegas NV

The Perq Banana Monkey Bread Bear Claw Chocolate Cranberry Scone Located just past the entrance of the new SLS and slinging LAMill Coffee from 6am until ten o’clock in the evening every day of the week it was largely a … Continue reading →

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Earl of Sandwich at The Palms, Las Vegas NV

Earl of Sandwich at The Palms Holiday Turkey – Turkey, Cornbread Stuffing, Gravy, Cranberry Sauce Hawaiian BBQ – Grilled Chicken, Ham, Swiss, Pineapple, BBQ Sauce Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Chocolate Chip Cookie Ghirardelli Double Chocolate Brownie Located across from the golden … Continue reading →

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