Early Bird Breakfast Club

March 16, 2013. Saturday.

I noticed that since the year started there has been a healthy influx of new restaurants that carry all day breakfast menus every single day of the week! First there was Recovery Food, then the much publicized local opening of IHOP, and now we also have Early Bird Breakfast Club. Aside from sharing the same theme of offering breakfast food at all hours of the day, all 3 restaurants are located in BGC, Taguig. Considering the area is ripe with BPO offices and party places -- serving breakfast food at odd hours makes sense for me. Just think of them as your local 24/7 lugawan/ gotohan, only fancier and definitely more expensive.

I love breakfast food, and it doesn't matter what time of the day it is. It is sort of my comfort food, especially any -silog dishes. Just came home from drinking? Breakfast food. Tired from running and biking? Breakfast food. Lunch break while at work? Breakfast food. But I digress. For this entry we tried out Early Bird Breakfast Club (or EBBC as we'll refer to it for the rest of the entry).

EBBC opened roughly around the same time as IHOP. Being a smaller restaurant, it got lost among all the hoopla surrounding the opening of the bigger SoCal dining fixture. Kim and I initially wanted to try eating at IHOP, but then I found out about the lines during weekends and we decided to wait until the hype about it has died down. Luckily, we read the great reviews about EBBC and decided to give it a try.

The first thing you'd notice as you enter the restaurant is that it is adorned in very lively colors. On one side of the wall you have mirrors and a light figure of a half egg shell, while the other wall had a predominantly blue mural on it. Add to that the lights and high ceiling, making the place bright and well- lit just as you would want it to be when having your breakfast. The have the standard height chairs and tables, but we chose to sit on the lower chairs which had a round table between it.

We ordered the following:

Viva Longganisa. 345php.

I ordered the Viva Longganisa. First, I loved how this was plated. The fried rice was in a cup/ glass, and the vinegar was in an egg cup. Really a nice way to spice up what should otherwise be just a traditional  longsilog. The longganisa itself was really meaty and had a sweet flavor to it. You can choose which way you want your egg to be cooked, I had mine scrambled. I just wished they'd ask me before they sprinkled some kind of chili powder over it.

Sunny Salpicao. 315php.

One of Kim's favorite food is Salpicao and when she saw that EBBC had it in their menu, she just had to order it. She was so excited about it that she forgot to read one important detail about it.. it was chicken! So imagine our confusion about it when we tasted it. It certainly wasn't beef, and we only found out after ordering it. It was served on a hot plate, with the fried rice in the middle. It certainly made for a great looking plate, but it was sort of hard to eat it from there since everything was so compact inside the small hot plate. As for the taste, it was certainly different from a Beef Salpicao, but it wasn't bad at all. Granted that the texture of the chicken was different from the normally medium rare beef in this dish, good thing then that the taste of the garlic and the oiliness of it really satisfied Kim's craving.

Breakfast Sausage Tart. 285php.

The menu had a section called Breakfast and Eggs and I wanted to order everything from there! I loved eggs with my breakfast, err with almost every meal I mean. We settled to share the Breakfast Sausage Tart. Or at least that's what we ordered, but what was served was the Bacon and Cheddar Frittata. The tart was supposed to have sausage, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes, cheese and of course egg! While the frittata was egg and potato baked with bacon, cheddar and spinach, and that's what came to our table. I only noticed the confusion after the meal, so I forgot to ask the server what was really served (maybe next time). Whatever it was, I'm glad it was good! It was served on a hot pan, and came with a tomato and pepper salsa. If I had to choose which of our entrées was the best, this was it. The egg was light and fluffy, the potatoes was soft and filling. And the  melted cheddar was just heavenly. The bacon was a little lean for our liking though.

Nutella Cheesecake. 350php.

This is what we ordered for dessert and Kim absolutely loved it! I already knew how this was going to be served, so I told Kim that she's in for a surprise. And was she surprised, in a good way. The cheesecake was served inside a square jar! And if that's not different, this one was topped with Nutella! Surprisingly this was the most expensive thing we ordered. 350php might seem a bit much for dessert, but I'll gladly pay for this again. The biscuit base provided a nice contrast in texture to the smooth cream cheese and creamy Nutella topping. It is then topped off with chocolate shavings. It might seem too sweet when you look at it, but it's not. It's just has the right amount of sweetness and saltiness from the cream cheese. Really a nice way to end our meal. And oh you need to cough up another extra hundred pesos just to take the jar home with you.

EB Signature Iced Tea. 125php.

Ginger Peach Lemonade. 125php.

We ordered these for drinks. A little on the expensive side considering they weren't bottomless, but we wanted to try some of their signature drinks since it was our first time here. They were different from most Iced Tea' and Lemonade's we have tasted. Kim's Iced Tea had a nice minty flavor in addition to the subtle sweetness it had. My lemonade was certainly fragrant. You can smell a nice hint of the ginger as soon as it was brought to our table. I liked that it wasn't overly sweet or citrus-y.

We loved everything about EBBC! The ambiance, the courteous staff and of course the food. Breakfast for dinner? You can never go wrong with that! The restaurant's menu might not exactly be cheap, but you get real good value for your money. The food might be common and traditional, but EBBC has made it different enough to keep it interesting and fresh. So if you're nursing a hungry belly after a night of all- out drinking and partying and you just happen to be in BGC, a meal at EBBC might be the right cure.

Early Bird Breakfast Club
Unit C, Ground Floor, Fort Pointe 2 Bldg., The Fort Complex, 28th Street, Bonifacio Global City, 1634 Taguig
(02) 4708847
(0917) 859 4950
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