I chose the sausage links for variety, and they were crisp-jacketed and tasted of sage, but very mild - I prefer sausages with some spice-heat. Le Peep's cooks made my sunny-side up eggs perfectly, with the yolks wet and jiggly but stable, and the whites solid. These two cakes were plate-sized, smoking hot, fragrant with whiffs of vanilla, and were that perfect pancake-brown color that was past khaki, but not quite to espresso. The Lumberjack Breakfast is two eggs, any style, with the choice of two bacon strips or two sausage patties or links, Peep's signature "Peasant Potatoes," and two pancakes, which I figured would be small - but they weren't. (FYI: Folger's coffee now tastes like boiled carrots after a cup of dark-roasted Komodo Dragon.)īrunch delivery took around forty minutes, and I was pleased with the pancakes. By the second sip, I was thinking that my years of buying Starbucks have spoiled me to lesser brands of coffee.
My server returned much later with a mug of coffee, and it was stale-tasting, over-roasted and over-watered. I ordered the regular Eggs Benedict and the Lumberjack Breakfast, with coffee - lots of coffee.
The outside of the restaurant features rows of patio tables for some munch-gazing over at the traffic on York Street, and the inside dining room looks like it was decorated with things bought at Sears - pink tablecloths on some of the tables and terrible prints of "rustic" objects and scenery. I breezed into Peep's around noon, when the dining room was filled with a brunch crowd - of almost all elderly patrons.
I visited the Le Peep location at 1875 York Street to see - and taste - for myself whether or not it had improved to the point of being good-list-worthy. I hadn't been to Le Peep in well over a decade - since I discovered eggs Bennie made from scratch are better - but I noticed that the recent chain-restaurant survey in Consumer Reports put Le Peep among the most popular restaurants in the U.S., ranked on taste, value, service and mood.Īlthough I was skeptical about the control group in this corporate-chain eatery experiment, I thought perhaps, just perhaps, this meant that Le Peep had improved.
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