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Living a quarter mile from this fine establishment for almost 4 months, we decided it was finally time to try the restaurant we have driven by a thousand times. I will say that we have not heard TOO much about Food 101, and frankly, we are very surprised after Sunday morning.

We walked over to the Morningside restaurant at about 11. We had looked at their brunch menu before and thought that it was most definitely worth trying out. They had everything that a typical brunch menu would have on it, but most items had a personalized twist to it. Examples on the menu include: whole weat pancakes with unique syrup and blueberry butter, Alon’s french toast, the big nasty (with fried chicken, egg, cheese and bacon), egg mcmuffin style breakfast sandwich, omelettes with unique ingredients including goat cheese and avocado, crab eggs benedict, etc. I know your mouth is watering so check out their menu here:
Brunch menu

Real quick on the restaurant atmosphere before we get to the food…
It reminded me of a place that Jenny and I would go to often in NYC for brunch and drinks. Its brick walls, rich wood bar and fresh colored corner booths gave a relaxed feel in a classy yet contemporary setting.

When we walked in, we were pretty surprised with the lack of people in the restaurant. There were maybe 5 or 6 tables of people, lots of babies and families. It was not nearly as busy as the popular Murphy’s or American Roadhouse. We couldn’t believe this was the case after finishing our meal there. The food was by far the best we’ve had in town.

So after being thoroughly impressed with the menu and our taste buds were completely confusing us with what to do, we placed our order. We started with a hashbrown casserole. It was hashbrowns, onions, jalepenos, crabmeat, and cheddar cheese. We split it. It was amazing. Period. Jenny ordered the whole wheat pancakes that I mentioned above with the blueberry butter (what is blueberry butter?) and delicious Vermont maple syrup. She figured this way she fufilled her savory and sweet cravings. It was out of this world. She espeically enjoyed the little bit of burnt/crispy parts around the edge of the pankcakes.

I had a really hard time making a decision, but finally opted for the sausage eggs benedict. The menu mentions the “Riverview Farms sausage” a number of times, so I figured it had to be incredible. I was so right. The sausage had an incredibly flavorful taste and acted as a perfect compliment to the rest of the benedict. I have always been a fan of eggs benedict, but this one did right by me by having a much larger empahsis on the meat.

The service was good. Our waitress was nice. The manager (I’m assuming) checked on us a number of times to see if we were doing well. I don’t know what kind of response he got as we were stuffing our faces, but I assume he understood. The prices are good as well. All of the main entrees were between $7 and $14, so nothing outrageous, and you get A LOT of food with every entree. As we left the restaurant, it was definitely filling up more, but still not nearly as much as the other popular Highlands destinations for brunch. We are putting our complete butts on the line here when we say that you should run down North Highland(don’t walk) away from any kind of wait at the other places to Food 101 because they have the best brunch in town.