Monday, January 24, 2011

Clock Tower Bakery, Blue Grotto serve the hottest breakfast dish in America

Posted by Charles Ferruzza on Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:47 AM

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Blue Grotto's Panne Frattau/Photograph by Angela C. Bond

What dish is on the top of the "fastest growing breakfast foods" list for 2011? The breakfast pizza. A story posted on the Nation's Restaurant News website, "Fastest Growing Breakfast Items," lists the top 10 breakfast items, based on growth of mentions on menus in the second half of 2010.

Breakfast pizza, the story reports, wasn't even on any of the menus in Technomic's MenuMonitor a year ago. It's now number one.

Where to find tasty breakfast pizza in the Kansas City metro? Fat City has five potential choices for you, and we're always hungry to hear about more.

5. Figlio: No, this Italian restaurant on the Country Club Plaza doesn't serve a breakfast pizza, but it does offer delicious wood-fired pizza for breakfast during the hours of its Sunday brunch, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. But if you wanted to indulge yourself and spoon some scrambled eggs on top of your pizza, go for it.

4. The Clock Tower Bakery & Cafe: This intelligent bakery -- owned by two former librarians -- in old downtown Overland Park serves breakfast every day (except Sunday) beginning at 6:30 a.m. A favorite dish here is the breakfast pizza, served throughout the day, made with scrambled eggs, Swiss cheese and a choice of ham or mushrooms. It's baked to order on a pizza crust.

3. Ingredient in Lawrence: Interesting, the Leawood and Country Club Plaza locations don't offer a breakfast pizza on their breakfast menus, but the Lawrence location (at 947 Massachussetts) serves a great one: eggs, cheese and your choice of three toppings. You can request more than three, but the additional choices are 75 cents each.

2. Eggtc.: This breakfast-and-lunch restaurant is operated by the owner of the Minsky's Pizza next door, so naturally it serves a great breakfast pizza. It's a hefty number, too, topped with chorizo gravy, Monterey jack cheese, scrambled egg, diced tomatoes, green peppers, and red onions.

 1. Blue Grotto:

This popular Brookside pizzeria serves brunch on Saturday and Sunday

from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and has two variations on the breakfast-pizza

concept: a Panne Frattau constructed on a flatbread crust with pecorino

cheese, fresh tomatoes and an egg, sunny-side up; there's also a Pizza

Benedict on a pizza crust base with a poached egg, prosciutto cotto and

very silky Hollandaise sauce. 

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Might want to correct the headline - Clock TOWERY?

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