Sometimes some of the simple things we grew up on like scrambled eggs, bacon and omelettes are the best way to feature some of the great local ingredients we come across. We recently got our hands on some local goose eggs that we featured as a frittata with local oyster mushrooms, our house cured and smoked pork belly and hand cut french fries. We've also featured super creamy scrambled eggs, with house smoked local trout and fresh farmer's cheese as a starter. These are simple preparations that deliver a ton of great flavor.

Chef Greg Biggers utilizes waffles in a sweet and savory application in his Waffles and Foie Gras dish, combining Hudson Valley foie gras, smoke aged maple syrup and an over easy quail egg. Appearing on Cafe des Architectes' brunch menu, the dish also includes lingonberry jam, house made ricotta and miso passionfruit gel.

These are both fairly regular features on our various menus, particularly savory waffle dishes. One of our most popular brunch dishes has always been an antebellum rice waffle with crispy duck & garlic confit, duck fat fried pecans, and fried sage served with a sunny duck egg. Bennecake waffles with pea gravy and charred andouille always sell well also. As far as French Toast goes, I like to season savory French toast with fines herbes and serve it with soft shell crab and a piquant tasso and olive vinaigrette.

At EL ideas, we've been doing an ossetra caviar course with coffee and toast. Originally, it started as a white chocolate pairing with the caviar a la Heston Blumenthal. The idea of pairing it with a coffee (wiith milk & sugar added) seemed exciting. Though there was some skepticism on discussing the idea, we all agreed the flavors worked very well & the course has been a huge hit.

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day so my menu often has eggs on it. I had a "breakfast for dinner" stack on the menu and we still have guests asking for it. It was a mini Belgian waffle with house made sausage, a crispy fried panko egg and Blis bourbon maple syrup. AWESOME! My perfect little waffle iron broke so I took it off. Coincidently, I was just looking a new commercial one a few weeks ago : )
Celina Tio
chef / owner
JULIAN
Kansas City, Missouri
816-214-8454
www.JulianKC.com
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We serve a seared La Belle Farms foie gras atop a savory rosemary and sage
housemade waffle over hazelnut butter creme and spiced nebbiolo gastrique
at SILVER in Park City.