The SunBreak Breakfast Team had heard tales of restaurant on Lower Queen Anne that was offering weekday breakfasts for $6. Étonnant! The only catch was the hours, 9 to 11 a.m. Committed to our readers as we are, could we spare an hour of the actual weekday for breakfast reportage?
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, I told Roger. $6 is a great deal, Roger admitted.
So last Friday morning we sat down at Toulouse Petit (introduced to you by Cornichon and rated four to five stars by everyone else). The restaurant was already three-quarters full when we arrived, at 9:15 a.m. It’s named for rue Toulouse in New Orleans, and a great deal of attention went into the interior’s faux-Big Easy decrepitude–the walls are scabbed with “crumbling” plaster. Ersatz culture isn’t that appealing to me, but we weren’t there to eat the walls.
We were there for breakfast. I don’t believe all the items on the breakfast menu are $6–plates that go for $15 normally may not be. But in general, options in the $9-$12 range are, and the dilemma you then face is how to choose from between them all. Roger decided on the Biscuits and Spicy Creole Sausage Gravy (with two eggs over easy), and I could not resist the “Big Easy” Andouille Scramble.
Our large French press coffee (Caffé Vita) arrived first, followed soon after by the food, which is unusually good for breakfast offerings in Seattle. Biscuits were fresh, the creole sausage is handmade in the kitchen (possibly the andouille as well, suggested the manager, though he didn’t confirm), the eggs over easy were plump, the scramble was light and flaky. (Roger says his was the best biscuits and sausage he’s eaten outside the South.)
These breakfasts would be well worth the regular price, but at $6 you feel a certain, deserved smugness for your deal-foraging skills. The office was calling, so we had to forego trying out the $6.95 breakfast cocktails. Otherwise I’d be telling you all about the Pomegranate Mojito, and at some length.
