B. Matthew's: Brunch on this

With the tourists gone and classes underway, I expected my life to get back to normal.  With one exception.  Mike kept reminding me about my promise to go chain-free while writing this blog.  He’s kind of a jerk.  And he recently quit smoking so he is twice the jerk he was before.

Mike steals food from my plate (again)

 We decide to go to breakfast together on Sunday morning.  And I would have been fine with going to J. Christopher’s for the 100^th time, but wait, what’s that you say?  It’s a chain.  Yep.

While I can’t tell you an exact number, there are 14 pull down choices of cities alone on J. Christopher’s “Find a restaurant near you” portion of the website.  Most of them are in Georgia, but some are in Tennessee. Not only do I love everything on their menu, my friend John goes there all the time.  And we all have a mutual friend who works there.  Boo.  Blog project. 

So Mike and I agree to get up early on Sunday and go to B. Matthew’s.  I’m not sure what the appeal is of first initial/last name places, but this one is not a chain.  I’m sure of it.  I even reviewed their website ahead of time. 

So Mike and I walk there, they are open for breakfast and lunch during the week and on Sunday when we went, they had a special brunch menu.  They do this for both Saturday and Sunday.  This also means they do not open until 9am.  When we arrive at 9:03 the hostess asks if we have a reservations.  Nope we sure didn’t.  But crap, do we need them right when the doors open?  The hostess asks us if we want to sit at the bar.  Nope we sure don’t.  So we get a table and a very witty, friendly server.  Hooray.

I decide on the Bay Street Scramble, here is the menu description: 

Scrambled eggs smothered with hashbrowns, applewood smoked bacon, mushrooms, tomato, green onion and cheddar cheese topped with a sundried tomato hollandaise and a homemade biscuit $9.00

Bay Street Scramble

It was a whole lot of food and taste for $9.00.  This is definitely something to order again.  The homemade biscuit was to die for and my dish was almost like an omelet on top of roasted potatoes.  I typically put ketchup on my eggs because I am a Yankee but this meal did not require it.  This says something for the food if I shied away from my trusty ketchup bottle.  The applewood bacon, scallions, cheddar cheese and sundried tomato hollandaise sauce make it completely unnecessary.

And Mike ordered the black-eyed pea cake sandwich.  I hate to admit it, but his was better than mine.  His meal was a big savory black-eyed pea cake seasoned just right with awesome bread and what won my heart was the side of blue cheese pasta.

Black-eyed pea cake sandwich w/blue cheese pasta

Here is the description:

Black-Eyed Pea Cake Sandwich on wheatberry bread with red onions, lettuce, tomato and pepperjack cheese with Cajun remoulade served with your choice of side$7.75

Overall B. Matthew’s was a big win.  The food was great, the restaurant was comfortable and our brunch cost maybe $20 for the two of us.  I think this weekend we are going to check out Firefly Café. 

Happy eats y’all.