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| - Confession of a Banana Nut Muffin Lover:
It all started with a desire to find the Mister a good American breakfast joint. Having grown up in Vietnam, I do really prefer a French first meal (Vietnam was colonized by France and thus most of us are self-admitted Francophiles) and have subjected my loved ones to French breakfasts and brunches galore! My fiance, however, had a good ol' American upbringing in the Midwest and ate morning carbohydrates like pancakes.
Enter Egg Works: adorable down-to-earth breakfast restaurant, all themed around ...Eggs! Even the decor is completed with classic paintings with egg-ish slants, all the faces are replaced by eggs (including the Mona Lisa).
There is a plethora of egg dishes for you to order, my favorite is the egg-crepe, a tasty blend of crepe batter and egg (perfect compromise of French American traditions). But the various egg benedicts (called Bennys at Egg Works) are also done well, including one that comes with prime rib on top of a buttered croissant - truly a diet sabotage worth your time.
But like most food love affairs: you come across that one delight so casually and unintentionally, this was how it began for me and the banana nut muffin. I was not really even a muffin enthusiast, until then. Adjectives like moist, soft, warm, perfectly sweet cannot deliver the experience of this muffin. All I can say is, just try it and you'll know love, too!
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