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| - I recently went to Merchant for the second time. The first time was for dinner during restaurant week a few years ago, and I just now had the opportunity to come back for brunch. Finally.
Their ingredients are locally sourced, and if you're really interested, you can flip over the menu and see a map of where it all comes from. While I know they're also known of their drinks, I'm much more a fan of their food. The drinks are far too complicated, the menu far too long, and I find it overwhelming.
The food though. Delicious. On this trip I had a breakfast burrito. A tequila braised pork burrito with scrambled eggs, black beans, corn pico de gallo, white cheddar, topped with cheddar queso, served with salsa, sour cream & field greens. I wish I lived closer than three hours away so I could eat this every day.
To drink, I had a mimosa, which was an average mimosa. I also had the "El Burbujas" cockatail. Altos Blanco tequila, peach syrup, grapefruit and lime juices, seltzer and Jamaican bitters. And it tasted nothing like what I expected. It pretty much tasted like tequila, seltzer and bitters. Odd. Like I said, food is better than the booze. They do have a decent craft beer list though, which is always a good fall back.
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