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| - Decent healthy dining with interesting flavors and fresh ingredients. Service is slow. The wait is long. The prices seemed high.
I first saw this place on Food Network's, Best I Ever Ate. Michael Symon was raving about the sausage gravy. We arrived at 1 p.m. on a Saturday and still had to wait about 25 minutes. Once seated it took our waiter another 10 minutes to come to our table.
The brunch menu is concise. It is full of fresh veggies, vegan options, egg dishes and the cheddar biscuits I was anxious to try. My friend ordered the waffle with homemade caramel sauce and baked apples. My dad ordered the shipwreck - an egg scramble with all fresh veggies and como bread.
The sausage gravy lived up to the hype. It is creamy, light and delicious. However, the biscuit was heavy and almost burnt. The waiter said it was supposed to be that way - cripsy. It really detracted from the texture of the gravy and soft scrambled eggs on top. I wanted it to be a perfect bit of the soft flaky biscuit, creamy gravy and perfectly cooked eggs. It wasn't. I ended up ditching the biscuit and just eating the gravy and egg.
My friend's gingerbread waffle was out of this world deliciously sweet. The shipwreck was fine, nothing spectacular.
This was a decent culinary experience. I liked that they used local, fresh ingredients many from their own garden. The bakery portion of the restaurant had yummy looking scones, muffins, tartes, etc but they were really expensive. Almost $4 for a brownie.
I'll be back, just don't know when.
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