{"id":792,"date":"2009-05-25T19:24:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T19:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=792"},"modified":"2009-05-25T21:23:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T21:23:28","slug":"birmingham-eats-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/25\/birmingham-eats-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham eats, 2009."},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I get to the eats:<\/p>\n

* ESPNEWS hit coming up in a few minutes here at 3:40 pm EDT. It’s via phone.
\n* I filed a revised top 100 last week but it was never posted. A revised revised top 100 will go up on the draft blog tomorrow.
\n* Erik over at FutureRedbirds has a long and well-researched post on drafting prep pitchers in the first round<\/a>. I don’t agree with his conclusions – among other reasons, I think his dataset is too old – but it is well worth your time.
\n* Liza Minnelli might be the next lead singer of Queen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I only hit two new spots this trip, in part because I wanted to go back to two places where I ate last year<\/a> (Jim n Nick’s and Bogues), and in part because I only ate one meal after breakfast on each of the two days of the tournament. There’s a Publix right up the road from Regions Park where I could grab yogurt and fruit to tide me over, and really, a pulled pork sandwich at Jim n Nick’s with a side of collard greens was enough to keep me full for hours.<\/p>\n

I tried two new restaurants for breakfast. The better of the two is Edgar’s, a bakery that I guess only recently added a full breakfast menu, with everything made to order. I went with the usual EMPT, and oddly enough, the T wasn’t so hot but the EMP parts were excellent; the breakfast potatoes were small red potatoes, parboiled, then sauteed with onions and herbs (rosemary and thyme, I think), and, for once, they actually had enough salt on them. The biscuit was inedible; it was more of a biscuit-cake than a soft, Southern-style biscuit, so I bought a blueberry scone for the road. The scone was solid-average, which is weird given how bad the biscuit was, since the difference between a biscuit and a scone is minimal. They had a wide selection of cakes, cupcakes, cookies, and muffins, with two or three varieties of scones and a few other baked goods, while the breakfast menu includes breadier fare like French toast. They get bonus points for some seriously high-end bagged tea.<\/p>\n

Klingler’s<\/a> is a German bakery with a breakfast menu that is heavier on the, um, heavier fare. I went with the pecan waffle, because I find waffles very hard to resist; it tasted of pecans and a little bit of butter, but it was still on the heavy side for a Belgian-style waffle. (Belgian waffles should be light and airy with a crisp exterior and usually contain whipped egg whites to provide that lift.) The side sausage was a smoked bratwurst, split in half and grilled, kind of spicy and savory for a breakfast sausage. It was adequate but unremarkable, and I’d rather drive the extra five minutes or so each way to eat at Edgar’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I get to the eats: * ESPNEWS hit coming up in a few minutes here at 3:40 pm EDT. It’s via phone. * I filed a revised top 100 last week but it was never posted. A revised revised top 100 will go up on the draft blog tomorrow. * Erik over at FutureRedbirds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,56,65,338],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birmingham","tag-biscuits","tag-breakfast","tag-waffles","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}