Alon's Bakery

This morning after coffee on the patio and watching our next door neighbor hiding Easter eggs in their backyard for their daughter we decided to head over to Alon's bakery for an Easter morning brunch. Alon's is an Israeli bakery and marketplace. Upon entering the premises you are greeted by a homemade dessert case featuring small single serving sizes of a decent selection. I had my eye on the peanut butter mousse cake for a future visit.

There is a pastry case with danishes and the like, artisan bread station, local and imported artisan cheese case, a vast assortment of house made gelatos and a grocery store sized prepared foods case which I made a bee-line to ( I'm always looking for a quick plan for dinner when I don't feel like cooking ). This prepared foods case offered such yummies such as salmon wellington, veal and wild mushroom meatloaf, polenta cakes with shitake mushrooms and honey smoked duck. There was also a selection of prepared salads with the usual chicken and tuna salads, hummus, tabbouleh, and a shrimp curry salad.

At the far left of the prepared foods case lies a counter where you can order cooked to order meals and sandwiches. Brian opted for an omelet with artichoke hearts, sun dried tomatoes and feta cheese.
I chose the cornbread and crab meat eggs benedict. Two squares of homemade cornbread topped with sauteed spinach, lump crabmeat, two poached eggs and drizzled with an Old Bay seasoned hollandaise sauce.

The cornbread was speckled with kernels of real corn with a chewy texture on the inside and crusty on the outside. The eggs were poached to a soft boil stage although I would have preferred a nice runny yolk that would ooze all over the cornbread when pierced with a fork like lava flowing down a mountain side. All in all it was good.

Brian bought himself a small bottle of whole milk to go along with his omelet and after opening the bottle discovered a somewhat thick consistency. No sour aroma was noticed. The manager on duty told him that all the milk was like that. Is that what really fresh milk straight from the udders looks like? He chose not to drink it.