Kanela Breakfast Club

I first read about kanela breakfast club in the redeye, made a note in my phone that I should check it out sometime, and the promptly forgot about it for a few months or so. Months later I came across the note again and my phone  and though ohhh yeah, I should go there sometime. So on a Wednesday morning during spring break, I told my boss that I was going into work late and we headed up to Clark street to kanela breakfast club. I'm not entirely sure, but I think this is the kind of place that gets super crowded on the weekends, but since it was a weekday, there was only one other group in the restaurant, and we were seated right away.


While we were looking at the menu, the waiter came over and poured our waters, assuring us that all of their water is filtered for extra purity (something I guess I don't worry about too much, but apparently its quite a concern to some and now that I do think about it, with Chicago water you really cant be too careful). So we drank our filtered water and looked through the menu. The selection itself is pretty small, around 10 things to choose from probably, but everything sounded delicious. BF and I usually share whatever we order because i have the (not so?) endearing habit of wanting to taste everything that everyone around me ordered. I decided to go the sweet route with the bacon waffles (go ahead and drool right now...) and he went savory with the lorraine scramble.

We hardly had to wait at all for our our food, probably because there was no one there so it came out really quickly. I wasn't quite sure what to expect with the chocolate covered bacon waffles but it ended up not only being waffles with little bits of chocolate and bacon mixed in, but also three HUGE chocolate covered bacon pieces setting atop the whipped cream on the waffles. For all those people who swear that bacon and chocolate should not go together - let me tell you - you are wrong! the savoriness of the bacon goes perfectly with the sweetness of chocolate. this is probably one of my favorite breakfast things I've had. The heaviness of the waffles and the richness of all the flavors was a little much after a while so I couldn't finish the entire thing on my own, but it was absolutely divine.

Overall, its a little on the pricey side, but I've found that to usually be the case with specialty breakfast places, and the food makes it totally worth a few extra dollars! They have some awesome juice blends too so I definitely recommend checking those out too!!


Check out their website here!