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Coming off le Diner en Blanc the night
before I hopped onto Yelp to find a real Cincinnati breakfast
option. Sugar n Spice was highly recommended but I was sort of jaded
by how good Tom n Chee had been. You
ain’t gonna capture lightening in a bottle twice on a first trip to
a city. Their website makes a lot of noise about something called
wispy thin pancakes and I saw a ridiculous breakfast platter named
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I read it, Vonnegut isn’t really my super fav but I did enjoy the reference and figured we ought to be set. The building certainly stands out in bright blue, yellow and pink. There is also an international pig themed statue in celebration of pancakes off one corner of the restaurant. The place is beyond tiny. There is a small square counter and a limited number of booths against the walls. There doesn’t seem to be empty seats for more than a couple of seconds.
The staff has a hint of Mel’s Diner to them in a fun sort of way, I
was waiting to hear the required “Kiss my Grits” at some point. The
walls are painted with exceptionally well done pictures of breakfast
classics (my one picture was horrible) and there is a near
exhaustive collection of little rubber duckies shelved around the
entrance. Ernie would be beside himself. |
 Don't Worry, There Is More Chocolate Inside |
 I Now Have An Official Definition of "Wispy" |
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 The Special Of The Day |
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When we got there they had biscuits and gravy on special and I was
suddenly torn. We got both, there was no way we were finishing
either but it was our one trip. Steph ordered the wispy pancakes
with chocolate chips. They are thin and have chocolate chips mixed
in, not just a few sprinkled over the top. I'm not sure if they just
spread a traditional pancake batter thinly on the griddle or of they
mix a lighter batter more like crepes but they do turn out "wispy".
I think they have something, instead of dense discs of sweet the
thinner version increases the proportion of the browned proteins in
the flour, it works. It must. They’ve been making them since 1941.
The biscuits were fine, the gravy was seriously rich with huge
chunks of sagey sausage just hanging out, a steal at $5. The
slaughterhouse five is a thesis in the deliciousness of hog.
Alongside two eggs, homefries and toast are a rasher of bacon, a
sausage link, a pork patty, smoked sausage and half a goetta. The
first three were fine, the bacon was done to a nice crisp without
going dark and the link and patty were full of porkiness. The smoked
sausage was spectacular, oozing juiciness and spice with a warm note
of smoke. This was the first goetta I had tried in its purer state
(without the rest of the sandwich from Tom n Chee) and alone that
bite of the oats really stands out. One city in two days, two great
meals and three great times. We will be back to Cinci. |
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 I'm A Goetta Convert & Probably 5 Millionth Person To Say Gotta Getta Some Goetta |
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| A- | B | B | A | C | B+ | ||
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