Everybody loves a good brunch and the folks at Clinton Street Bakery are known to deliver in spades. Whether the hype is deserved or not you need to get to the Bakery pretty early in the morning to guarantee that you’re first in the line – and you may want to do this since there are only 32 covers and no reservations taken! We arrived probably about an hour before it was due to open and even that early in the morning we were soon joined by quite a number of people. The manager of the restaurant was quite concerned that the queuing throng not take up the pathway (maybe they get a lot of complaints from the locals) so she kept coming out to ask everyone to try and stay to the side.

Once in, we settled in to check out the menu. Their reputation is based on their awesome pancakes, biscuits and just general fresh-baked items. Pat surprisingly did not go for any pancakes but had a Country Breakfast consisting of three eggs sunny side up, ham steak, hash browns and buttermilk biscuit. Think it was the biscuit that enticed him. Our fellow diners, Pat’s friend from work I think, ordered on a similar theme. However, I went somewhere completely different and could not resist the Fried Chicken and Waffle with maple butter – come one, honestly, who can pass up fried chicken for breakfast!

In actuality the Fried Chicken was a small disappointment as it was just a touch over-cooked and being a piece of breast meat this resulted it being a little on the dry side. But thanks to the gorgeous maple butter sauce that came with it – I was still able to enjoy it and also enjoy the fact I was having fried chicken for breakfast.

Impressively for such a busy establishment we weren’t rushed to finish our meal. Instead pressure came in the form of the loitering diners in the queue! Still, if you can manage to ignore the throngs (they don’t let too many into the restaurant itself) you can have yourself quite a pleasant brunch. And, if you don’t fancy the long lines, they serve breakfast all day so you can always come when its not peak breakfast eating time.