Address: 1168A Howell Mill Road
Pricing: $5-$10 breakfast, lunch
Phone: (404) 872-3973
Hours: Monday-Friday 7 a.m.- 4 p.m.; Saturday/Sunday 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
How To Get There:
From I-75 North, take Howell Mill Exit and turn left.
Travel about 2 miles, go through light at 14tth Street, and turn right into the parking lot.
From I-75 South, exit at Howell Mill and turn right, follow directions above.
From I-85 North, take 10th Street Exit
Left onto 10th and stay on 10th Street for about a mile to Howell Mill Road
Right onto Howell Mill Road (Atlanta Humane Society will be on your right)
Left into the parking lot just before the light at 14ht Street (United Rentals will be on your right)
Driving South on I-85:
Take 17th Street Exit
Right onto 17th St., stay on 17th Street until it dead ends into Howell Mill Road
Left onto Howell Mill Road. Just past the second light (at 14th Street) take an immediate Right into the parking lot
Parking:Parking in deck at 14th Street is free.
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West Egg Cafe: Breakfast Worth Waiting For
Oct 27, 2009
The West Egg Café on Atlanta's gentrifying West Side has a waiting area furnished with overstuffed couches and paperback-filled bookcases. They're there to ease the long weekend wait for what many consider the best breakfast in Atlanta.
The wait is worth it: the tasty food is also easy on your wallet: nothing on the menu is over $10.
The folks at West Egg put an Atlanta spin on breakfast classics. Their Georgia Benedict replaced the ham and English muffin in the classic version with turkey sausage and gravy over a split biscuit. As any self-respecting Southern breakfast place, grits are available as a side, all gussied up with roasted garlic. The Peachtree Plate features eggs any style, brown sugar bacon, pimiento cheese grits, fried green tomatoes and a biscuit.
The daily menu includes a variety of sandwiches--including a Redneck Reuben-- salads, a daily soup special. But you can order breakfast all day every day, including your choice of tender and fluffy pancakes, crisp Belgian waffles, black bean cakes with eggs, build-your-own biscuits, the blue plate, and a fried green tomato breakfast wrap.
Creative Loafing, a free circulation weekly publication, named the West Egg Café as the city's best breakfast two years in a row, a few years after calling its cupcakes the city's best. For your sweet tooth, the pastry case is stocked with muffins, scones, cupcakes, cookies, s'mores brownies, and other delicious baked goods.
This independent coffeehouse and sandwich shop also provides free wireless internet access and a bottomless cup of coffee. Specialty coffees and teas will start your morning and keep you going all day.
West Egg Café -- not far from Midtown, Georgia Tech, Atlantic Station, Buckhead, and Downtown -- is in the "new" 1930s addition to the historic White Provision Company loft building at the intersection of 14th Street and Howell Mill Road.
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- by Diane Loupe, Atlanta Reporter for HelloMetro
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Diane LoupeA resident of Decatur, Ga., and a native of New Orleans, Diane has a M.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri. She has worked for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Associated Press, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Yale Medical School. A freelance writer and editor, her work has appeared in The Sunday Paper, Women's eNews, the Agnes Scott College alumni magazine, eSchool News, and PTO Today.
