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| - I didn't know eggs benedict could actually be good. Stopped by here on a Saturday morning with my sister and were told it would be a half hour wait. No biggie, wanted to try Odessa anyway. I liked that they let us go next door and would fetch us when our table was ready. Suh-weet.
The wait was actually much shorter-- I'd say 10 minutes.
The place is really tiny. Like a bedroom with a couple of tables and narrow paths. It's small. Some might find this charming, but I like being able to sit comfortably and not have my shoulders bumped every time someone passes by. If we were all 5 years old and having a tea party--cool--maybe then there'd be enough space.
Just like the space, the menu itself is quite small. But I like this, because it means that they make a few things and they should make it damn good. The eggs benedict were a no-brainer to choose since most of the breakfast menu consisted of that. I went with the Florentine Benedict, which was an English muffin topped with ham, spinach, onions (?), and poached eggs. The eggs were covered in this rich, velvety hollandaise chipotle sauce. In an eggs benny, it's always the gross amount of sauce that kills it for me. Vieux Velo's hollandaise wasn't smothering the eggs and it actually had a pleasant taste. Way to go, VV, your hollandaise didn't make me want to barf.
Solid breakfast.
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