And it almost certainly explains why, for most of its hours of operation, despite being both a non-local creation and an eatery tucked in an awkward corner of the Tustin Marketplace (or is every corner awkward in a shopping center that large?), the wait for a table always tops an hour or more. This may explain the severe hype surrounding Snooze’s opening almost two months ago. Orange County has its fair share of greasy-spoon diners (I even worked at a great one, Harbor House, for many years) and a hefty helping of worthy weekend brunches, but when it comes to restaurants dedicated exclusively to contemporary takes on pre-noon food like Snooze’s, only a few places even skim the category, none of which are in Tustin. Or be a super-glutton like me, and replace your regular order’s toast with a cinnamon roll pancake bigger than your head sprinkled with candied walnuts and doused in a rum-maple reduction for $3.50. In addition to dessert-themed flavors like peach pie, pineapple upside-down cake and peanut butter cup (with a layer of actual peanut butter on top), the daily special is always something intergalactic, like banana cream atop an espresso chip pancake or a bacon pancake with bacon butter cream.Ĭan’t decide? Get a flight. Though sweets for breakfast aren’t always my preference, Snooze’s have proven themselves too good to resist. Hash browns, the perennial breakfast side, come not crisp and flattened across the whole plate, but as an inches-high cylindrical cake where, beyond the protective top layer, all is a glorious mush of shredded taters. The meal moves into hyperdrive with breakfast tacos a la Austin, corned beef hash not from a can, omelets as creative as stoner dreams, and the Breakfast Pot Pie, an abstract take on down-home biscuits and gravy that drowns a single buttery puff pastry with a lava flow of rosemary sausage gravy. Snooze is the first place where I’ve been able to break my fast not just with an everyday bloody Mary or mimosa, but also with a whipped cream-infused screwdriver (Orange Snoozius), a sparkling wine-splashed paloma (Palomimosa) or a so-called Snoozed Fashioned, made with Elijah Craig bourbon, cold-brewed coffee from Santa Ana’s Contra Coffee, blueberry shrubs and bitters. And with build-your-own stuffed spuds, 10 kinds of clever pancakes, six versions of Bennies to mix and match plus a full bar, it’s even making the first meal of the day - gasp - fun. chain first began eight years ago.Īt Snooze, breakfast isn’t just morning sustenance, it’s a ride through Tomorrowland. The other landed in Tustin this summer via Delorean from the retro-themed future in Denver, Colo., where the established open-til-2-p.m. One has been an all-American staple for over half a century. One is rubbery scrambled eggs, oily hash browns and overly buttered toast, and the other is a prosciutto-and-Teleggio-cheese Benedict on a toasted ciabatta topped with cream cheese Hollandaise and a salad of balsamic-splashed arugula. At Snooze, there’s breakfast and then there’s breakfast.
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