Thursday, October 2, 2008

Brunch at Clinton St. Baking Co.

Apparently, in a city with thousands of places to go to for brunch, this one just simply can not be ignored. I mean this place has been voted best brunch in the city by this one, that one and everyone else! So we must try. So we pull up one saturday afternoon (yes pull up, we drove from brooklyn) to Clinton st., right off of houston. Theres a fair amount of people gathered outside under the red awning, so I jump out of the car to put our name on the wait list, since I know usually theres no reservations for brunch, and let the Mish look for parking. The wait:1 1/2 hours!!! No way, I'm already starving, I may hurt someone by the time my turn comes to eat! Ok, we wait, walk around, get some coffee, come back, wait some more, make fun of some of the people we're waiting with (believe me there's plenty to make fun of with all these ohioan wannabe nyers), and then seriously an hour and half later we sit! I thought i heard angels sing! It's bitter sweet, we're happy to be sitting, but angry cuz we know we still have to wait for out food after we order.
Finally the food is here, Misha got the spanish scramble with chorizo, onions, tomatoes, monteray jack cheese with hash browns and it is gooooood. The hash browns are awesome and crispy and the scrambled with the melted cheese and bold flavors were a hit! I got the buttermilk bisquit sandwich with scrambled eggs, cheddar, tomato jam and hash browns. It was ok. My hash browns were great too, but after trying mikes really flavorful breakfast, mine seemed a lil bland, even with the tasty bacon. Don't get me wrong, it was good, the eggs were fluffy, the cheese melted all over & the bisquit was good, as it should be, hence the baking co. in the title. I do hear the pancakes are the thing to get here, I just usually prefer savory over sweet. I think this place does brunch well. Reasonable prices, organic eggs, quality ingredients & fresh squeezed oj. This is a bakery people, so try some baked goods/sweets for me since I don't always have the desire for that kind of stuff.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

My judgment on this place is a bit off cuz I soooo fu%&*ing hungry due to the endless wait. But the food was good, simple, fresh. Def. reccomend. 8 of 10.