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| - Famous Toastery in Belmont, NC serves up tasty food in a prompt manner, but is a little bit expensive for what you get.
We stopped in early on a Sunday afternoon, after the church-crowd rush had dissipated. Seated promptly, our server offered us what was essentially an amuse-bouche of delicious, moist cornbread. We were really hungry so it was nice to have a little treat before we put in our orders.
I got corned beef hash with my eggs over easy, and biscuit on the side. The hash was well-seasoned and perfectly cooked with a great crust, and my eggs were ever so slightly overcooked but still runny for the most part. They also covered the eggs on top with hollandaise, which while not traditional for corned beef hash, worked pretty well with the dish. It served as basically more egg yolk to mix into my hash, which I'll never argue with.
The biscuit that came on the side was a savory Bojangles-style rather than a sweet Flying Biscuit type, but it desperately needed some salt. I won't hold it up against a Bojangles biscuit which are salty as hell, but the dough definitely needed a little improvement in the seasoning department. I only used it to sop up the yolk and hollandaise from my main dish, so it did that job just fine.
My wife got a turkey reuben with sauerkraut and cucumber salad on the side. She enjoyed it quite a lot and her only comment was that she wished the reuben had a little bit more spread on it.
Service was prompt and friendly, so my only quibble was with the pricing. The corned beef hash didn't come with toast or anything, so I'd say to either increase the portion size by adding toast or more hash, or decrease the price by a buck. You want to walk out of an afternoon hangover-cure brunch with a full belly, and I definitely could have put more away but didn't feel like ordering or waiting for anything else.
Since it's right down the road from us we'll definitely be back, as there aren't a huge number of local places that are open on Sundays. I look forward to our next visit.
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