September 26, 2009
吃蛋吧
Coffee and toast at home is nice and all, but we've missed being able to go out for a relaxing weekend brunch, now that we've got a little ball-and-chain. Finally the baby is able to sit up on his own in the stroller, so brunch seemed like a good excuse to take him out on a little local excursion. Omelet To Go has good reviews amongst the local food-bloggers, and its location near the XinYi-Jilong intersection next to a park wasn't too far to walk with a stroller. And the wife likes omelets.
Got there early, before the sun got too high in the sky and became too hot for the baby. Good thing, too, as the place filled up quickly, many are also young families out for weekend breakfast. Wife even ran into an old classmate, there with his own little baby, who was already being sent to classes!? The space was clean and well-lit with picture windows in front and solid wood furniture inside, definitely a step up from the typical Taiwanese breakfast-shack. The straight-forward menu is scrawled on blackboards that lined the walls, featuring a wide variety of omelets and sides, plus some other light lunch far like pasta and wraps. With a name like Omelet To Go, though, we certainly weren't going to order anything but. Wife had the Denver Omelette with hash browns. I had the weekend special cheese omelet with smoked salmon cream sauce, eggplant parmesan on the side. The omelets were generously proportioned with lots of filling, definitely American-style rather than French. The exterior perhaps a bit more singed than proper, but the interior still soft and gooey with melted cheese. The hash browns were thin and crispy, definitely not the thick, mealy, mass-produced stuff. Endless coffee is nice and decently drinkable, although they only had creamer cups instead of real milk, which was a minus.
Once the baby started to squirm in the stroller, we had to take turns eating while the other held him in our laps, and when that wasn't enough take him out for a walk around the park. But he never made a big fuss or bothered the other diners, which was awesome. It was nice to be able to go out for a meal as a family unit, and Omelets makes for an excellent morning option. Unfortunately we won't be able to indulge too often, with that pesky work and all during the week.
吃蛋吧
Omelet To Go
台北市信義區光復南路473巷11弄40號
(中興公園旁)
02-2720-8782