Honest Tom’s Taco Shop tweeted yesterday that they’re taking their truck on the road, this week stationing the vehicle at Broad and South. We took advantage of a lull in this morning’s apocalyptic downpour and sprinted down to the corner at about 7:45am. We watched lightning strike and the rain come down for 25 minutes or so but no sign of Honest Tom. Not that we blame him for lying low till the locusts receded but he claims he’ll be at the corner of BroSo all week from 8am to 2pm.

If anyone can bear witness, let us know.

Honest Tom’s [Twitter]

The Reading Terminal Market has launched a $7 Meal Deal 7 days a week for breakfast and lunch. 22 merchants are participating and offering everything some real value.

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Esquire named Kanella one of the best breakfast spots in America back in February. Last weekend Kanella actually added brunch to their hours. Living on the Vedge was there on the hummus paved road to satisfaction. [Living on the Vedge]

Finding Philly comes up with a list of South Philadelphia brunch spots to try when the wait at Sabrina’s and Sam’s Morning Glory are just too long.

1. Royal Tavern and Cochon
2. Carmen’s Country Kitchen
3. Los Taquitos de Puebla
4. Teri’s

[Finding Philly]

Fries with that Shake reminds us that it has been way too long since we had the whiskey donuts and the grits at Johnny Brenda’s. [fwts.net]

Veggicurious discovers Honest Tom’s at his Saturday hangout next to Clark Park. There she enjoys the $2.50 breakfast taco.[Veggicurious]

Living on the Vedge walks 15 blocks to Honest Tom’s weekday haunt at 33rd and Arch as much for the French pressed Stumptown coffee as for the breakfast taco. [Living on the Vedge]

Trey Popp rolls into Merl’s, a 20-seat diner at 16th and Dickinson. 

The meat-heavy menu loads the bases with bacon — pork, beef, turkey — and drives them home with the same trifecta in scrapple form. Six and change buys a platter with a meat and two eggs plus grits or home fries. But for my money, the only thing worth considering is the one in black marker. Merl’s chicken wings sport a crispy batter that pops with a few drops of Bayou Heat hot sauce, and meat as moist as it gets. The sprinkle of powdered sugar is all her Belgian waffle needs to play sweet foil to the savory fowl.

 

Merl-y Gates [City Paper]

Esquire Magazine comes up with the 59 best breakfast places in America and Philadelphia’s Kanella makes the list. We’ll pay no attention that Holiday Inn Express also is in there and we’ll ignore that Kanella’s web site doesn’t mention breakfast or even brunch. But those are just details, it’s Friday and we’d rather celebrate that Philadelphia’s lone Cypriot  restaurant has gotten some national accolades.

The Cypriot breakfast plate tastes heartier and more serious than its American counterpart: Sunny-side eggs fried in olive oil have a thick yolk and crunchy underlining, grilled halloumi and lounza (ham) are salty slabs, and the coffee is made Turkish-style by boiling finely powdered roasted beans (mixed with sugar) over a propane burner. Let the dregs settle.

Best Breakfasts in America [Esquire]
Kanella [Official Site]

If you watched the Super Bowl last night we’re sure you made a mental note that Denny’s was giving away free breakfast tomorrow from 6am to 2pm. Unfortunately for the free-breakfast-minded, there’s not a single Denny’s in the city.

Now if you can’t get to the burbs for a free breakfast, cheer IHOP who will be celebrating National Pancake Day on February 24th. On that Tuesday, all IHOPs across the country will be offering a short stack of buttermilk pancakes from 7am to 10pm. And there’s an IHOP right at Front and Snyder. And according to a couple people who have been there recently, this might be the cleanest IHOP in the world.

Denny’s [Official Site]
IHOP Batters Up to Raise $1,000,000 for Charity on National Pancake Day [IHOP]

It might take forever but Adam Erace finds that Cafe L’Aube is worth the wait.

Feather-light and tissue-thin, L’Aube’s lovely crepes washed out the bad taste. Cooked on a traditional circular griddle, blended wheat and buckwheat batters formed the sweet and savory canvases for ham, mushrooms and Swiss; sliced turkey, crushed walnuts and a drizzle of honey; simple cinnamon-sugar brightened with lemon; and the classic crepe trio: strawberries, bananas and the cure to all the world’s problems, Nutella.

Daily Grind [Philadelphia Weekly]
Cafe L’Aube [Official Site]

Adam Erace does breakfast, lunch and dinner at Du Jour on South Broad and finds it best before noon.

Think fluffy, triple-stacked flapjacks griddled with lovely vanilla-roasted peaches right in the batter, and amazing coconut-custard brioche French toast, like eating macaroons for breakfast.

The berries scattered atop a bowl of creamy Irish oatmeal were too ripe, and the half-moons of avocado upon the surf-and-turf eggs Benedict had oxidized into bruised black boomerangs, but that Benedict itself? Best thing I’ve eaten before noon in a while.

Bittersweet Symphony [Philadelphia Weekly]
Du Jour Gourmet Market [Official Site]

For all of October Bridget Foy’s will be offering free coffee with their 7-day a week breakfast. Get in by 11:30am and enjoy complimentary La Colombe coffee, espresso, cappuccino or latte with any breakfast purchase.

New breakfast menu after the jump.
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