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All-Day Breakfast Sandwiches at Homegrown

All day, and every day.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Dec 20, 2011 at 02:24PM 0 Comments

Homegrown ups its breakfast game. Photo by Nick Feldman.

Ben Friedman of Homegrown reaches out to Nosh bearing most excellent news: that all three of he and Brad Gillis’s shops are serving breakfast sandwiches every day—wait for it—all day.

Egg-and-cheese buffs know Homegrown’s morning loaves are among the best in the city but previously were hard to come by if you didn’t roll out of bed before 10:30. Now, however, they’re being offered from 8 to 8. Happiness.

Oh, and there’s a new breakfast sandwich with smoked ham, Beecher’s cheese, and sage aioli that Friedman says is “pretty damn tasty.”

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Where Can One Get a Tasty Breakfast Sandwich?

Some thoughts.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Aug 05, 2011 at 12:38PM 4 Comments

A beacon for fans of the breakfast sandwich.

Skillet Diner serves up a craggy mass of biscuits buoyed by American cheese and house-made guanciale—it’s an Italian bacon taken from the jowls and as succulent as it sounds. The newly minted Spring Hill brunch bar has something similar, only with kassler ham.

I Love New York Deli touts one of the longer morning menus out there. The counter cooks up omelets (a Denver, a veggie, a reuben-inspired one) or slices up meats and squishes them into kaiser rolls. Nook —so tiny!—also options multiple ’wiches, each on a scratch buttermilk biscuit. The one with goat cheese and tomato jam sounds particularly promising. (But note: the restroom is deplorable.)

The Cherry Street coffee houses are reliable stops for anybody on the go. And for sweet teeth eschewing eggs, Volunteer Park Cafe has a deliciously naughty panini slathered with melty Nutella and sliced strawberries. Also worth a mention is their brie and apple baguette drizzled with lavender honey.

Spankin-new Li’l Woody’s swaps bread for a hamburger bun with its all-day egg-bacon-cheese stack, while Geraldine’s Counter, the favorite breakfast boite of Columbia City, piles onto sour batard toothsome bacon, scrambled eggs, tomato, arugula, and (always a bonus) aioli. Another bonus: hash browns. They come on the side.

Every loaf Homegrown slices turns to sandwich gold, and its AM varieties are no exception. Same story with Macrina Bakery. Here you really should shell out the couple bucks for the Zoe’s bacon and ask for extra of the spicy tomato sauce.

Recently a friend visiting from Chicago—a friend who would subsist on breakfast sandwiches were it an option—decided she had found the ultimate in eggy-cheesy goodness at Dahlia Bakery, where the English muffins are housemade. People also go pretty nuts for the fried egg and dungeness crab, topped with avocado and kicky mayo, at Seatown Seabar.

Where else?

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Two More Potbelly Sandwich Shops Coming to Seattle Area

New venues for toasty sandwiches are on the way.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jul 06, 2011 at 09:42AM 0 Comments

Photo: Jessica Voelker

Potbelly’s second location Downtown will open in mid to late fall, confirms a company rep.

As Eater Seattle’s Allecia Vermillion reported, Potbelly, the Chicago-based chain that opened its first Seattle sandwich shop a month ago, is expanding its local reach with a Bellevue Towers location due to open later this summer.

And a company rep confirmed this morning that a third shop was on its way. Just a few blocks from Potbelly’s location at Fourth and Pike Downtown, the new branch is at 1111 3rd Avenue, near the corner of Third and Spring.

If you haven’t yet visited Potbelly, you may not know that it lists the calorie content of all its food and shakes. The sandwiches mostly hover around 500 or 600 calories thanks to reasonable portion size. But there is an ice cream sandwich that has more than 1,000, which is a fun fact that I like to throw out at cocktail parties. Honestly, people never seem to be as tickled by that information as I am. To each his own, I suppose.

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Tags: Bellevue, Downtown, Potbelly Sandwich Shop, Seattle Sandwiches