Biscuits 2 Burgers
Coffee
Challah French Toast with Bacon
Cheese Blintzes with Blueberry Compote
Cheddar and Black Pepper Biscuits
Located just down the street from Ace Donuts, locally owned and operated Biscuits 2 Burgers had been on my breakfast to-do list for a while and although mixed reviews warned of a hit n’ miss experience the proximity simply could not be ignored – an 8:15am arrival finding only one two-top filled as the staff-to-patron ratio swelled in my presence to 3:3, not a single other patron present during the rest of my hour long stay.
Featuring two chefs and one server, the later a young man who was friendly and mostly efficient in keeping water and coffee full, Biscuits 2 Burgers features a concise menu of breakfast as well as lunch staples and with everything but the outsourced pastries made in house a three-part order was assembled in a room featuring several medals and awards for various events alongside seasonal décor plus a television playing just a bit too loud.
Watching the chefs operated in a wide-open kitchen while perusing one of the free local rags it was just under twenty minutes before my order arrived and setting aside ice-cold butter, HFCS-Jam, and pseudo-syrup in favor of items brought from home the meal began with flimsy French Toast alongside crispy bacon – the former sliced so thin one would be hard pressed to know it was Challah as opposed to the also-offered Texas Toast while the later was rather par for the course, the $6.95 charge less than most places but still seemingly excessive for the quality or portions served.
Moving next to the namesake biscuits – offered as sliders, with gravy, or individually at $1.50 each – two of the daily cheddar and black pepper inspirations were selected and with the drop-style rounds as dense and toothsome as one would expect both the cheese and spice were quite restrained, the addition of honey helping to make the flavors pop, though certainly not to the degree of those famous versions served up at America’s most well known seafood chain.
Wrapping things up with an unlikely selection made mostly because the menu’s pancake options seemed genuinely uninspired, it was to a trio of tightly wound blintzes that I was treated and served over what was probably canned blueberry compote the lightly bronzed pockets proved superlative, each creamy bite making me wonder why so few breakfast places offer such things…and why anyone would pay nearly twice as much for the ones at Carnegie Deli on the Strip.
TWO AND A HALF STARS: All in all a fair to middling breakfast venue in a city full of excellent local alternatives suffice it to say that for those looking for good blintzes Biscuits 2 Burgers definitely warrants attention and while other options failed to ‘wow,’ the friendly prices and lack of crowd may prove appealing to those looking for a good deal or lack of a line during peak weekend hours.
RECOMMENDED: Blintzes.
AVOID: French Toast.
TIP: Apparently owned by an accomplished Chef, Joseph Giancaspro, who was extremely cordial with the other table while ignoring me entirely those interested in Personal Chef services or the restaurant’s occasional ‘date night’ menus are encouraged to contact them directly – business cards are available at the restaurant or visit www.thecustomcook.com for more information.
WHAT THE STARS MEAN: 5 World Class, 4 Excellent, 3 Good, 2 Fair, 1 Poor
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