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| - Monty's Blue Plate Diner is an overall good diner with a little bit of a hipster spin. They have good sandwiches and breakfast items you'd expect to see at a diner like burgers, montecristos, or french toast, but they also do a lot with vegetables to keep thing interesting like their sweet potato hash or the caponata and pesto omelet. They also feature a lot of classic dishes with international inspiration, and they bend over backwards to meet dietary restrictions. They have lots of pie and other desserts available, reminiscent of the late Bluephies (RIP). Throw in a full bar featuring boozy milkshakes, and you have a solid brunch spot if I've ever seen one.
I went with a salmon hash because i was in the mood for something different while still getting my hands one of their biscuits. I found the salmon scramble to have a tame amount of fishy salmon flavor that fits in well with the potatoes since they finely chop the potatoes and salmon into the same size. I was hoping for dill or some other herb, but I didn't notice any.
The biscuit was pretty nice. It's big, warm and pillowy with a relatively neutral flavor. I prefer a crusty, hard, and flaky biscuit, but this was nice and really satisfied my craving for a good biscuit.
Because of the gaudy display of desserts, I couldn't resist getting something sweet. I went with a sprinkle doughnut and a boozy mudslide milkshake. The doughnut was good enough; nothing amazing but not bad. The milkshake was pretty great. It's big and will probably give you a stomach ache from all that ice cream, but it's real good if you like tasting booze in your shake.
Overall, I didn't find Monty's to be a favorite, but I will probably be back for some boozy shakes at brunch.
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