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From gingerbread pancakes to chilaquiles with queso fresco, some scrumptious ways to wake up your taste buds and break the fast. Just add coffee.
EATING BREAKFAST AT A RESTAURANT IS ONE OF LIFE'S best low-cost, high-value indulgences. That's because chefs--unlike mere mortals--have the time and the help to do all those great dishes that the rest of us read about in cooking and lifestyle magazines: the custom omelets; the fresh, fragrant pastries; the glamorous pancakes; the perfect golden biscuits. So we went to the kitchenmeisters at some of our favorite restaurants and asked them to share their trade secrets. The result is four different breakfasts: healthful, homey, gourmet, and Mexican. Of course, we know you won't be doing these at seven o'clock on a Monday morning. But they're perfect when you're fixing breakfast or brunch for friends (or just one special friend). And there's no need to confess that you don't cook like this every day.
The Houstonian Hotel, Club and Spa Houston
No retro granola, the Houstonian's classy version updates the muhigrain cereal of the sixties with almonds, pistachios, and a medley of dried fruits, including cranberries, currants. and apricots.
Beau Nash Hotel Crescent Court Dallas
The surprising thing about scrambled egg whites is how good they are; in fact, you hardly miss the yolks. The cooks at Beau Nash add a colorful garnish of fresh Roma tomatoes and lightly sauteed shiitake mushrooms.
Bistral Dallas
Bistral's cool and wonderful dressing of yogurt, sour cream, fresh mint, lemon juice, and a bit of sugar dresses up any combination of fruit.
Homey Breakfast
Magnolia Cafe Austin
Ask the folks queued up at the Magnolia Cafe what their favorite breakfast dish is and nine times out of ten the answer will be gingerbread pancakes. You can put syrup on these fat, fluffy beauties, but they're great just by themselves.
The Daily Review Cafe Houston
Rolled, dropped, beaten--however you make them, biscuits are synonymous with breakfast. The Daily Review's fluffy buttermilk biscuits--rolled, incidentally--emerge from the oven buttery on the inside and golden on the outside.
Avalon Diner 2 Houston
There are hashbrowns, and there are hashbrowns. Then there are the Avalon Diner's chunky, spunky homemade cottage potatoes, dressed up with onion, nuggets of bell pepper. paprika, and a shot of Tabasco.
Austin Java Company Austin
History has not recorded the name of the genius who first cut a hole in a piece of bread and fried an egg in it, but no doubt the dish has been invented countless times by frazzled parents looking for anything that will get the...
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