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I hope this day is finding you the best and brightest that you can possibly be!
If you are a regular reader of LilyOnTheLam, you will know that I have recently spent some time in Orlando Florida with a one Mr. Cardamom Monroe, internationally renown Hello Kitty fan, looking for homes for sale. Mr. CM is being relocated to Florida and needs surroundings suitably lush to be called "Lily East." As I have always been good at spending other people's money, I was more than happy to accompany Mr. CM on his house hunting expedition.
Mr. CM's Realtor had told us that the Las Vegas restaurant Hash House A Go Go had opened a location in Orlando. The restaurant bills itself as having "Twisted Farm Food." Now if you want to fully understand who LilyOnTheLam is as a person, you need to know the following things:
1) LilyOnTheLam likes breakfast - and all things in hash form.
2) LilyOnTheLam likes houses.
3) LilyOnTheLam likes anything and everything "a go go."
4) LilyOnTheLam is pretty twisted.
So I insisted that Mr. CM take me to Hash House A Go Go for Sunday brunch.
The food itself was scary. I thought the Cheesecake Factory had large portions. This place makes Cheesecake Factory look like a starvation camp diet plate. Mr. CM and I were served these gargantuan platters of food, covered in sauces and gravies.
I had the entree best known for its appearance on the TV show "Man Vs. Food": The Fried Chicken Eggs Benedict.
It is sage fried chicken with fresh spinach, bacon, tomato, griddled mozzarella, chipotle cream and scrambled eggs on grilled mashed potatoes - all on a fresh split biscuit. With a gigantic steak knife (a.k.a. dagger) stuck in the middle of it. Since I'm not currently planning on engaging in a killing spree, I was a bit amiss as to what to do with this weaponry.
The fried chicken eggs benedict might as well have been a bowl of mashed potatoes drowning in very hot chipotle cream gravy because that is all I tasted. The spicy factor seared my tastebuds and the rest just tasted like one note incredibly fatty, heavy blandness.
If you like massive portions of overly spiced, doughy tasting food covered in gravy, you'll love this fried chicken benedict (which is not a traditional eggs benedict whatsoever). But I was unhappy. I ate about 1/6th of this monstrosity and felt sick to my stomach. (And trust me, my stomach is used to eating some heavy duty fatty foods.)
This was a "Hash House A No No."
Mr. Cardamom Monroe went with some egg thing - if I remember correctly this is the Farm Scramble. But I could be wrong, I was too busy wishing I had ordered a waffle instead.
Mr. CM was not impressed with his meal either. We looked sadly at the table of waffles and pancakes next to us. WHY, WHY, WHY didn't I just order a pancake as big as my head? I had to go "all fancy" and get the "as seen on TV" entree.
I would definitely go back to Hash House A Go Go to try one of their monster pancakes but I will steer clear of the eggs on potatoes on biscuit dishes - no flavor!
But there is one bright spot of my brunch at Hash House A Go Go. I wanted to start my meal with a Bloody Mary. The server asked "a regular Bloody Mary or a BLT Bloody Mary?" What? I was intrigued! What is a BLT Bloody Mary? The server said "It's like a Bloody Mary with a BLT on the side." Mr. Cardamom Monroe and I looked at each other, still not comprehending what this cocktail was supposed to be. But we decided in this land of twisted farm food, it's either "Go big or go home!" so I ordered the BLT Bloody Mary.
Out comes a spicy bloody mary with a large romaine leaf submerged in the drink, a piece of beefsteak tomato and a cold piece of bacon. At the base of the drink is a square of sandwich bread-looking melba toast and a packet of mayonnaise. An interactive cocktail!
I slathered the melba toast with mayo and then began the assembly. I pulled out the wet piece of romaine lettuce and placed it on the mayo-ed toast, then the tomato and then the bacon. I really liked the flavor of the lettuce since it had a generous soaking of my spicy Bloody Mary on it. The tomato was tasty.
The bacon however was too cold from sitting in the icy drink. It had a heavy congealed fat taste to it. Perhaps they could have given me a skewer and a candle so I could have warmed up the bacon table side? The melba toast was nice but I would have preferred a slice of lightly toasted white bread as a BLT to me both has the crunch but also the softness of the bread. Melba toast just has the crunch.
As far as restaurant gimmicks go, this was a cute one. But probably not one I'd try often. Because my entree was already food for 12, to have a drink with a side sandwich was just waaaaaay overboard. I could hear my arteries hardening and my thighs expanding as our coffee cups were refilled.
I'd like to go back to Hash House A Go Go to have a pancake as big as my head. They have them in traditional flavors (Banana, Brown Sugar, Apple Cinnamon) and non-traditional ones like Snickers, Strawberry Frosted Flake, Mango Coconut and Blackberry Granola. They also have bacon waffles and sausage waffles. I definitely need to go back to try a bacon waffle. But I'll definitely pass on their non-traditional eggs Benedict platters. I am not a fan of those!
I hope this day is finding you the best and brightest that you can possibly be!
If you are a regular reader of LilyOnTheLam, you will know that I have recently spent some time in Orlando Florida with a one Mr. Cardamom Monroe, internationally renown Hello Kitty fan, looking for homes for sale. Mr. CM is being relocated to Florida and needs surroundings suitably lush to be called "Lily East." As I have always been good at spending other people's money, I was more than happy to accompany Mr. CM on his house hunting expedition.
Mr. CM's Realtor had told us that the Las Vegas restaurant Hash House A Go Go had opened a location in Orlando. The restaurant bills itself as having "Twisted Farm Food." Now if you want to fully understand who LilyOnTheLam is as a person, you need to know the following things:
1) LilyOnTheLam likes breakfast - and all things in hash form.
2) LilyOnTheLam likes houses.
3) LilyOnTheLam likes anything and everything "a go go."
4) LilyOnTheLam is pretty twisted.
So I insisted that Mr. CM take me to Hash House A Go Go for Sunday brunch.
The food itself was scary. I thought the Cheesecake Factory had large portions. This place makes Cheesecake Factory look like a starvation camp diet plate. Mr. CM and I were served these gargantuan platters of food, covered in sauces and gravies.
I had the entree best known for its appearance on the TV show "Man Vs. Food": The Fried Chicken Eggs Benedict.
It is sage fried chicken with fresh spinach, bacon, tomato, griddled mozzarella, chipotle cream and scrambled eggs on grilled mashed potatoes - all on a fresh split biscuit. With a gigantic steak knife (a.k.a. dagger) stuck in the middle of it. Since I'm not currently planning on engaging in a killing spree, I was a bit amiss as to what to do with this weaponry.
The fried chicken eggs benedict might as well have been a bowl of mashed potatoes drowning in very hot chipotle cream gravy because that is all I tasted. The spicy factor seared my tastebuds and the rest just tasted like one note incredibly fatty, heavy blandness.
If you like massive portions of overly spiced, doughy tasting food covered in gravy, you'll love this fried chicken benedict (which is not a traditional eggs benedict whatsoever). But I was unhappy. I ate about 1/6th of this monstrosity and felt sick to my stomach. (And trust me, my stomach is used to eating some heavy duty fatty foods.)
This was a "Hash House A No No."
Mr. Cardamom Monroe went with some egg thing - if I remember correctly this is the Farm Scramble. But I could be wrong, I was too busy wishing I had ordered a waffle instead.
Mr. CM was not impressed with his meal either. We looked sadly at the table of waffles and pancakes next to us. WHY, WHY, WHY didn't I just order a pancake as big as my head? I had to go "all fancy" and get the "as seen on TV" entree.
I would definitely go back to Hash House A Go Go to try one of their monster pancakes but I will steer clear of the eggs on potatoes on biscuit dishes - no flavor!
But there is one bright spot of my brunch at Hash House A Go Go. I wanted to start my meal with a Bloody Mary. The server asked "a regular Bloody Mary or a BLT Bloody Mary?" What? I was intrigued! What is a BLT Bloody Mary? The server said "It's like a Bloody Mary with a BLT on the side." Mr. Cardamom Monroe and I looked at each other, still not comprehending what this cocktail was supposed to be. But we decided in this land of twisted farm food, it's either "Go big or go home!" so I ordered the BLT Bloody Mary.
Out comes a spicy bloody mary with a large romaine leaf submerged in the drink, a piece of beefsteak tomato and a cold piece of bacon. At the base of the drink is a square of sandwich bread-looking melba toast and a packet of mayonnaise. An interactive cocktail!
I slathered the melba toast with mayo and then began the assembly. I pulled out the wet piece of romaine lettuce and placed it on the mayo-ed toast, then the tomato and then the bacon. I really liked the flavor of the lettuce since it had a generous soaking of my spicy Bloody Mary on it. The tomato was tasty.
The bacon however was too cold from sitting in the icy drink. It had a heavy congealed fat taste to it. Perhaps they could have given me a skewer and a candle so I could have warmed up the bacon table side? The melba toast was nice but I would have preferred a slice of lightly toasted white bread as a BLT to me both has the crunch but also the softness of the bread. Melba toast just has the crunch.
As far as restaurant gimmicks go, this was a cute one. But probably not one I'd try often. Because my entree was already food for 12, to have a drink with a side sandwich was just waaaaaay overboard. I could hear my arteries hardening and my thighs expanding as our coffee cups were refilled.
I'd like to go back to Hash House A Go Go to have a pancake as big as my head. They have them in traditional flavors (Banana, Brown Sugar, Apple Cinnamon) and non-traditional ones like Snickers, Strawberry Frosted Flake, Mango Coconut and Blackberry Granola. They also have bacon waffles and sausage waffles. I definitely need to go back to try a bacon waffle. But I'll definitely pass on their non-traditional eggs Benedict platters. I am not a fan of those!
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