Breakfast with DMB and Grits a la Vincent Gambini

Meal: Mediterranean Omelet with fresh spinach, tomatoes, garlic, feta and provolone cheeses

Restaurant: The Broken Egg Bistro, Chesapeake Virginia

My daughter LOVES breakfast, so much that often her favorite dinner is breakfast.  Around here, we call that Brinner (breakfast for dinner) and her favorite breakfast is French toast with bacon.  Usually she consumes her order of bacon, followed by her sister's, and any other bacon left on anyone else’s plate and then she starts on her French toast.   It only made sense therefore that we would go out to breakfast during her birthday weekend (she had school on her birthday so it had to keep until the weekend).

One of the best places for breakfast in Hampton Roads is The Broken Egg Bistro.  Owned by Dave Mathews Band fans, (their  license plates even proclaim “DMB FAN” and “DMB STAY”) the menu includes items such as 2E's Two Step – two portions of peppered bacon wrapped asparagus, charbroiled and topped with homemade hollandaise sauce, served with two eggs any style;  Cinnamon Swirl French Toast and the Kitchen Sink Omelet - a twelve egg omelet with your choice of four items.  If you can eat this omelet and sides, the restaurant waives the bill.

This visit I had the Mediterranean Omelet which contains fresh spinach, tomatoes, garlic, feta and provolone cheeses along with real grits (not the instant kind of mush), wheat toast and a great cup of coffee. 

A note here about grits . . .I am a Yankee and a Jersey one at that .  As such I am supposed to love home fries instead of grits (don’t even get me started about Taylor Ham.)  My wife apparently has the right Northeast DNA and wouldn’t eat grits if they paid her.  As for me - I love ‘em., if they are real grits, where you can almost taste the texture of the individual “grit”.  The instant pablum they serve at many restaurants as grits are not worth even a spoonful.  As Maury Chaykin told Joe Pesce, “No self respecting southerner uses instant grits. I take pride in my grits”.  I just wish Chaykin’s character, Sam Tipton would convey that to more restaurateurs as the preparation of real, not instant, grits seems to be a dying art form!  However, at the Broken Egg, real grits are in evidence.  Get over to the Broken Egg Bistro, try one of their wonderful omelets and get the grits as your side!