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| - I came to Lady Marmalade after a quick Yelp search for brunch places and decided this is the place to try. They had a whole section devoted to eggs benedict, so I thought it was right up my alley. Who doesn't like brunch?
I got there on a saturday at about 10:15am and there was a tiny lineup out the door. I waited probably for 15-20 minutes before I got a table (the place is pretty small). The wait is ok, cause you start randomly looking at things that make Lady Marmalade what it is. Art on walls (for sale), all the different salt shakers on the tables, the coffee cups that you remember from the 80s, the random plastic animals near the kitchen... you know, normal stuff.
After sitting down, we ordered the fruit crepe and the eggs benny with black forest ham. The fruit crepe was crazy sweet, so much that my sugar-fiend of a fiancé said it was too sweet. I agree, but I don't really like sweets that much.
The eggs benny was pretty good. The hollandaise was exactly what they said it was, "lemony". They also served it with a mixed salad with a sesame ginger vinaigrette so it kinda paired well with the hollandaise. The egg was cooked to a poached medium. Personally for an eggs benedict I like it a little softer so that the yolk kinda mixes with the hollandaise to form a sauce. The black forest ham was actually a pleasant change on your classic peameal bacon variety. They shaved the black forest ham on so it was really soft and light. It really matched the consistency to the rest of the eggs benedict.
The line up for this place just got worse and worse as we sat there, so if you do want to come for brunch I would come a bit earlier. I didn't stay long enough for it to happen, but I'm guessing when the church across the street gets out, Lady Marmalade probably gets stuffed with church-ies.
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