Category Archives: Breakfast

Sugar Bees Bakery, Las Vegas NV

Sugar Bees Bakery Pineapple Pink Peppercorn Macaron Cinnamon Vanilla Bread Pudding Raspberry Financier Coffee Kahlua Macaron Almond Croissant Chocolate Chip Cookie Already in the area for breakfast at The Cracked Egg and having stopped in to Sugar Bee’s only once … Continue reading →

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The Cracked Egg, Las Vegas NV

The Cracked Egg Coffee Peach Coffee Cake Monte Cristo – Turkey, Ham, Swiss Peanut Butter Stuffed French Toast – Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Filling, Honey, Bananas Croissant French Toast – Seasonal Berries, Banana, Powdered Sugar With my mother in town … Continue reading →

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Dee’s Donuts, Las Vegas NV

Dee’s Donuts Buttermilk Bar Strawberry Raised Blueberry Cake Apple Fritter Stepping out of Babystacks well aware that the next eight hours would be spent amidst mountains of boxes and unpacking Dee’s simply proved too convenient to pass-up, a quartet of … Continue reading →

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Babystacks Cafe, Las Vegas NV

BabyStacks Café Coffee Lemon Ricotta Pancakes – Three Crepe Style Pancakes, Lemons, Cream Cheese Syrup Cookie Butter French Toast – Fresh Whipped Cream, drizzle of Nutella, dusted with pie crust and powdered sugar Kalua Grilled Cheese – Kalua Pork with … Continue reading →

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La Belle Terre Bread French Bakery Cafe, Las Vegas NV

La Belle Terre Bread French Bakery Café Baba Au Rhum Kouign Amann Butter Croissant Almond Tart Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookie Palmier Blueberry Cream Twist When I heard rumor that an independent French Cafe was turning out superlative Kouign Amann just … Continue reading →

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The Egg & I, Las Vegas NV

The Egg and I Coffee Cinnamon Roll Banana Nut Muffin Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Pancakes Carrot Cake French Toast with Sassy Apples With a house full of boxes waiting to be unpacked and a long run already in the morning’s rearview … Continue reading →

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Siena Tavern, Chicago IL

Siena Tavern Biscuits and Gravy – Smoked Brioche Bread Pudding Biscuit, Prosciutto Sausage Gravy Lobster Hash – Poached Eggs, Truffle Hollandaise Gnocchi – Truffle Cream, Fried Sage, Crispy Pancetta Coccoli – Crispy Dough, Stracchino Cheese, Prosciutto di Parma, Truffle Honey … Continue reading →

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Longman & Eagle Donut Shop, Chicago IL

Longman & Eagle Donut Shop Chocolate Ring Vanilla Cruller Cinnamon Ring Chestnut Filled Modestly impressed by the food but disgusted by the service during my first visit to hipster hotspot Longman & Eagle it was with guarded curiosity that we … Continue reading →

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Roeser’s Bakery, Chicago IL

Roeser’s Bakery Red Velvet Donut Caramel Apple Donut Strawberry Donut Pumpkin Donut Sweet Potato Donut Crunch Donut Nutella Dobash Torte A Humboldt Park mainstay predating even the classic Dinkel’s and Lou Mitchell’s of Chicago’s dining scene a visit Roeser’s Bakery … Continue reading →

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Lou Mitchell’s Restaurant & Bakery, Chicago IL

Lou Mitchell’s Restaurant & Bakery Milk Dud’s, Orange, Prune Coffee Banana Meltaway Pancakes French Toast Apple and Cheese Omelet with Potatoes and Greek Toast Vanilla Donut Cinnamon Sugar Donut Almond Coffee Cake A part of the Chicago dining scene since … Continue reading →

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Reno, Chicago IL

Reno Cornmeal English Muffin Cheddar Biscuit with Peach Preserves Pumpkin SourDougnut Sesame Bagel, Peach Jam Pine – Chicken Thigh/White Cheddar/Dill Pickles/Hot Honey/Trinity Bun Muffaletta – Mortadella/Muffaletta Spread/Red Onion/Mozzarella/White Bread Hook – Toagarashi Lox/Cucumber/Avocado/Artichoke Cream/Cheese/Red Onion/Old Bay Bagel Poutine – Fried … Continue reading →

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Dinkel’s, Chicago IL

Dinkel’s Rum Tart – Meringue, Rum Infused Cocoa Buttercream, Nuts Red Velvet Cupcake / Carrot Cake Cupcake Apple Fritter Sourcream Donut Caramel Nut Raised and Glazed Moving from modern to classic the second stop on our morning tour was at … Continue reading →

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Enoch’s Doughnuts at Endgrain, Chicago IL

EndGrain La Colombe Americano   Enoch’s Doughnuts Pumpkin with Spiced Pepitas Bourbon Vanilla Chocolate Turtle Salted Caramel Bacon Butterscotch Honey Glazed German Chocolate Waking up early on the day of ‘The Game’ for a long morning run I was a … Continue reading →

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Eleven City Diner, Chicago IL

Eleven City Diner Matzo Brie Moshe Cristo – Ham, Roast Turkey, Melted Swiss, Challah French Toast Red Velvet Cake With traffic in the South Loop sparse as we made our way from Dillman’s it was with a bit of surprise … Continue reading →

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Dillman’s, Chicago IL

Dillman’s Lemon Almond Pound Cake Canele Cookies n’ Cream Cookie Coffee Tea Sweet Cheese Blintzes French Toast Potato Pancakes Separated from our Thanksgiving feast by nearly twelve hours plus a twelve mile run Black Friday began with the back-to-back “Jewish … Continue reading →

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Serenade, Las Vegas NV

Serenade Pistachio Latte Garlic Honey Toast Honey Toast With Las Vegas undergoing their independent coffee shop renaissance a few years after most major cities it is perhaps a testament to the local Asian cultures that one of the more well … Continue reading →

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Du-par’s, Las Vegas NV

Du-Par’s Coffee Bread Pudding with Ice Cream, Caramel, Walnuts, Raisins Short Stack Pancakes Short Stack French Toast Glazed Donut Hot at 7am Almond Bear Claw Hot at 7am A veritable Los Angeles institution that I’d always neglected given their ever-evolving … Continue reading →

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Born and Raised, Las Vegas NV

Born and Raised Homemade Mac & Cheese Bites – chipotle cheese sauce, cheetos dust Warm Garlicky Pretzel Bites – hummus Colonel’s Fried Chicken – baconnaise, pickle chips, sweet potato tots Monte Cristo Sliders – French toast stuffed with ham, turkey, … Continue reading →

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The Peppermill Restaurant & Fireside Lounge, Las Vegas NV

The Peppermill Restaurant & Fireside Lounge Coffee Ambrosia French Toast, No melon, with whip Carrot Cake Rarely one to stay out late and certainly not the sort to do so while drinking heavily only to find myself craving greasy food … Continue reading →

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Ronald’s Donuts, Las Vegas NV

Ronald’s Donuts Bearclaw Apple Fritter Cherry Cake Cinnamon Twist/Tiger Tail Buttermilk Bar Apple “Burrito” With friends in town for the second weekend in a row since moving to Sin City and my temporary housing located on Spring Mountain Road it … Continue reading →

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