Breakfast | good eats by b

Folk Art, Inman Park

The line is nuts here every Saturday & Sunday but if you find yourself free as a bird on a weekday morning take the opportunity to eat here. It’s southern breakfast at its finest. Tom and I went one Friday morning before heading to the airport and ordered the Sweet Potato Pancakes of the banana nut foster variety and Folk Southern Fried with jumbo griddled biscuits. The pancakes were extremely sweet and the fried chicken with gravy on the savory side. It was nice to have both to balance you out but we both left feeling like we were going to explode. I remembered to take a picture of both plates before we dug in and as you can see the portions are huge each could have been split in half and neither of us would have gone hungry. I would say that is my only complaint. I appreciate leftovers but something about pancakes two days later just doesn’t sound right especially if they have already been “syruped”.

If you leave hungry you clearly ordered wrong.

The Echo Restaurant, Cincinnati (Hyde Park)

Did anyone else have an old diner in their town growing up that only felt right when you went with your parents and ordered a donut to kick off the meal? Well I did it and was called Ann’s; the food was dependably good and the waitress turn over was negative. When I walked into Echo on a very snowy Saturday morning with my friend Vanessa floods of memories came back of being a kid sitting in an orange vinyl booth and eating that sprinkled donut I so desperately needed.

I was craving everything that morning so I thought it best to order the Steph’s Sampler. I got two scrambled eggs, two pancakes, bacon, sausage, & potatoes. These pancakes were big & fluffy– kind you can only get out and I quickly devoured them. The eggs and bacon went next and by the time I called it quits only the sausage and half of the potatoes were left. I was completely stuffed but it was well worth it.

The waitress was friendly and the yellow walls were very welcoming. Echo is a place you could take anyone, who enjoys breakfast, and they would be pleased.