Brunch @ Hattie’s
So today it was back to work. The holiday’s aren’t really over for me yet; I’m taking off the second-half of this week for New Year’s. Today was just a necessary snap back into reality for a day or two to get some work done. Yesterday we finished the long weekend with a little post-Christmas brunch. What better place to go than Hattie’s? It was beautiful, as always. It such an adorable restaurant—lots of white, an antique tin ceiling, dark wood & simple table arrangements.
(Looking back, you can tell we really love this place.)
On my plate was a slice of banana nut bread to start. Sourdough was the other bread option, but I decided to go sweet over savory. I sipped on a spicy Bloody Mary (the perfect choice for a Sunday morning, if you ask me) & decided I was definitely in the mood for poached eggs. Hattie’s offers their poached eggs atop crab cakes with a spoonful of hollandaise sauce. Sold.
The eggs were poached perfectly. They could have probably won a medal for them. Light & delicate, the crab cakes had just a minimal amount of breading & were really flavorful. As for the hollandaise sauce… ah-mazing. I know I should’ve trusted Hattie’s from the very start, but I was a little nervous about it. I’ve had some really unpleasant hollandaise sauce before: thick, gloopy, yolky, weird… I almost asked for the sauce on the side, but decided (daredevil that I am) to risk it. There was no need to worry. It was rich, but not overpoweringly so. The eggs liked it. The crab cakes liked it. I definitely liked it. On the side I had bacon, which was standard but very crispy (bonus!) & cheesy grits. Health food, basically. No matter. It was definitely worth a little more time at the gym.
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Mmmm… grits sound good!