East Egg - 6907 Sears Dr · Portage · (269) 366-4344

Wow, it's been a year and a day since my last post. Good Lord, I'm lazy. Since the last post back on September 21, 2010, I've gone back to Zehnder's in Frankenmuth for their fried chicken (although I'm still debating on whether I like their fried chicken or Bavarian Inn's fried chicken more). I also spent almost a week in South Beach between Christmas and New Years Eve of 2010, ate at the Whitney in downtown Detroit (twice), spent about 5 days in New Orleans at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, etc. Essentially, I ate my way through the last 12 months. Oh well, what's done is done. Hopefully I'll be more diligent with this from now on. No promises though. Lol. Oh, there is one thing I absolutely have to mention. The fresh oysters that are shucked 3 minutes before they hit your plate in New Orleans are simply amazing. There is no other way to describe it. I can't find anything of that caliber up here in the Midwest. Guess I'll just have to go back.

So...

General Thoughts - I heard about this East Egg place from my boyfriend's mom. Based on her descriptions of the restaurant, it sounded like it was the perfect place to be on Labor Day. When we got there, the place was packed, we ended up waiting for at least half an hour when they told us 10 minutes. We were told we had to wait that long because the tables are generally 4 tops, to add an extra person is a fire hazard. So seeing there were only 2 tables in the whole place that could accommodate more than 4 people, we had no choice but to wait. Half an hour later, we were seated. Here is the menu -

Foods tried - Cinnamon donut holes, Blackened Salmon Benedict

Thoughts -

1. Cinnamon donut holes - I think the waitress felt bad for us, so she brought enough donut holes for the table. I don't know if that is enough to make up for all the pain we had to go through to get that table, but it was a good start. They were fresh out of the fryer, still glistening with oil, hard to pick up because of the temp, but so very delicious. If they served hot cider, I wouldn't need anything else. Who cares about the rest of the stuff on the menu if East Egg served cinnamon donut holes with hot cider? Bam! Winning!

2. Blackened Salmon Benedict - You don't usually find this on the menu at a standard brunch place, and it came highly recommended by the server. I was sold. Check this out, how can you resist?

The eggs were poached perfectly, the seasoning on the blackened salmon wasn't overpowering everything else on the plate, and the hollandaise was just right, not too watery, not too thick. It was very obvious the hash browns was cooked with a lot of butter, but no complaints here. I could've gotten grits instead, but I simply can't turn down potatoes.

Final thoughts - Was my meal Very Yummy in my Tummy? Yes. If I was 7, I would've held the plate to my face and licked the plate clean. I was so full, I passed out in the car on the way home due to food coma. There was no fighting it. Will I come back? Heck yeah. But I think the next time we'll have to go at 8:39am to make sure we can grab a seat right away. Clearly, 12pm wasn't the best choice.

p.s. Maybe I should pretend I "relatively" kept up with this blog over the last 12 months and recreate the what would've been my string of New Orleans blogposts based on what I remember, and lump everything into one since some of the details have now escaped me.