Blue's Egg + Bakery

The bakery side of Blue's Egg makes a cinnamon sugar king cake under royal icing, colored sugar, pearls and sprinkles. Beads and coins finish the Carnival presentation. It is a seasonal preorder from the Story Hill address, alongside the restaurant's year round breakfast and brunch.

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A Story Hill breakfast restaurant whose bakery keeps six pies on hand every day, five rotating and one seasonal, from French silk, key lime and salted brown butter to Dutch apple and bourbon pecan. Its pumpkin pie comes with a thick crimped edge and lavish swirls of spice-dusted whipped cream over a crust like a denser puff pastry, with strong clove notes in the filling. Order a slice of the Dutch apple.

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Blue's Egg makes breakfast feel abundant without losing precision. Stuffed hash browns are the signature draw, joined by seafood scramble, omelets, Benedicts, and warm monkey bread from the bakery side of the operation. The Story Hill dining room has the pace of a neighborhood institution, with enough range for both a celebratory brunch and a practical weekday plate.

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