When someone mentions the word "brunch", most people think of a lazy Saturday or Sunday. I was in town for an extended period of time and met up with Nima on a lazy Friday and was craving brunch-y food. I had read about this place in a Chicago Magazine and they had mentioned that their lemon pancake was one of the top 50 things to eat in Chicago and the pictures looked amazing.
This place is a true breakfast/lunch place as it's only open until 3pm, so definitely get there early. Luckily, it was pretty empty on a Friday afternoon. The space itself is huge, airy with an artistic feel to it as it is apparently also a part-time gallery. The menu is very brunch friendly with a full breakfast menu as well as a full lunch menu. It was a true struggle to figure out what to eat because everything sounded great and when I looked around, everyone's dishes looked pretty good. Ultimately, all 3 of us ended up getting the exact same dish, the Kingsbury Cafe Breakfast - Deanna got it with vegan patties, Nima got it with bacon and I got it with turkey patties. The dish itself was 2 eggs your choice, 2 roasted tomatoes, herb potatoes and a cheddar cheese scone - all for $11! It was a ton of food and everything was fresh and very well made. I got my eggs soft scrambled and they were delicious but you could tell that they were a lot of butter or cream in it which made it soft. But regardless, I really enjoyed my eggs. The roasted tomatoes were an interesting touch to the meal - you don't really see that a lot and to be honest, I prefer raw tomatoes because cooked tomatoes can be too soft and mushy - this one was close but they took it out of the oven right before it got to that point. The potatoes were fine - again, they were of the roasted variety. I didn't really need them as part of the dish but it just seems wrong to not have potatoes with a breakfast dish. The same can be said for the turkey patties - they were a little bit on the dry side and it could have used a bit more spice and flavor to it, but it would have been weird to not have a meat dish with the eggs. But the real star of the show was the cheddar cheese scone. Holy shit. I actually had really low expectations for this as I'm not a huge scone fan and generally find them to be an uninteresting food item. But this was less like a scone and more like a buttery, flakey delicious biscuit with cheddar cheese inside of it. It was served with salty butter which just made the whole thing amazing. I wasn't planning on eating the whole thing but I just couldn't stop myself and could have easily had another.
Overall, I was really pleased with my breakfast here. It's a true breakfast joint but the lunch options also looked really good and I would definitely come back to try it out. It's located in this weird street that has a strip club, a giant Whole Foods and the British School all on one block but if you get get over that, I would definitely recommend you check out their brunch and maybe even get their famous pancakes as I'm sure they would be fantastic. Total bill: $20/pp with tax and tip
Photo Credit: Yelp
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