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| - I've been on a brunch binge recently, and this place has been on my list for a while. I finally made it over today to check it out. Briefly, it's situated in the lobby of the Ace Hotel, which is in an old YMCA building. I thought the decor was pleasing, and enjoyed the artwork on the wall, though personally I felt like it was missing something, but I can't put my finger on it. I'm not sure the mcm design aesthetic meshed with the original flooring. But that's a minor point.
We ordered two items off the specials menu: donuts with a cherry jam and lemon(?) cream, and a plate that had pancakes, pork belly, and eggs; and one item off of the regular menu: the Whitfield, which is essentially an eggs benedict.
The donuts were AMAZING. We ate them so fast I didn't get a photo. My only complaint is that there were only 3! They were light and airy and fresh and warm and melted in your mouth. Omnomnom.
My partner got the special with the pork belly and pancakes, and I tasted some of it. The pork belly was good, but it's hard to go wrong with pork belly. The pancakes, though, were some of the best pancakes I've ever had. I don't even like pancakes much, because there are too many dry boring pancakes in the world. This was fluffy and ever so slightly chewy and tasted a bit like lemons and powdered sugar. I'm not sure what they did, but it was magic. I can't praise the pancakes enough.
The Whitfield was okay. The eggs benedict portion was not bad but not great. It did come with a beet and potato little croquet/latke that I enjoyed a lot. It tasted a lot like it latke, instead of, say, hashbrowns. It was kind of sticky like a latke. I couldn't overtly taste the beets, but perhaps it added something that enhanced the flavor.
Oh. And I thought the coffee was quite good too. :)
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