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Restaurant reviews | Six new breakfast spots
Breakfast is the new dinner. If you didn't know that, time to wake up.
Mexican chocolate waffles at Waffles
Nobody wants to spend money on dinner anymore, and you know what? I don’t blame them. After spending the morning in a well-lit room, nibbling on kuchen (soft cake surrounding ripe slices of peach), or digging into tender carrot-whole-wheat pancakes with whipped cream cheese, or drinking tall glasses of cool, ginger-spiked melon juice—who wants to eat a big dinner after that? And pay a hundred dollars for it? Nobody, that’s who. Wake up, Chicago.
No, really, wake up—get out of bed earlier, spend less time primping (your hair looks great) and get to a breakfast restaurant, half a dozen of which have opened in the past couple of months. Collectively, these openings have done something surprising: They have switched the main meal of the day. And it’s about nine hours earlier than you’re used to.
The sacrifice of such a move is negligible. There is no sacrifice when eating those carrot pancakes. You will not dig in to them and think, God, I wish I were eating a steak right now. For one thing, it’s impossible to think about anything else when eating a stack of something so uncommonly delicious. For another, steak is on plenty of breakfast menus, so just calm down.
