There's a glossy new breakfast and brunch spot in Dallas, but this time, it's local: Called
Eggdaddy, it's a restaurant open for breakfast and lunch only, and it just opened near Addison, at 15250 Dallas Pkwy #100, north of Belt Line Road.
Pretty much every item on the menu includes eggs, from breakfast dishes to lunch options like egg salad and tacos, and eggs are also used as a thematic/decorative lietmotif.
The egg theme is present from the moment you walk through the egg-like oval arched entryway. The interior also features two elongated egg-shaped booths for photo-ops.
Staff uniforms include egg-yolk-yellow shirts and black chefs' pants dotted with floating sunny-side eggs in amorphous shapes.
The
menu includes bowls, sandwiches, salads, and breakfast tacos.
The bowls are primarily standard breakfast plates in a bowl format, because having bowls is cool. The American Bowl, for example, has eggs, hashbrowns, English muffin, with choice of bacon, ham, or sausage. A Local Bowl has poached egg, sausage, hash browns, cheddar cheese, Cholula sour cream, and an English muffin.
Sandwiches are whimsical. There's a "sandwich" with peanut butter, jam, and bacon sandwiched between waffles; "Daisy Duke," a biscuit sandwich with egg, sausage, pimento cheese, and pickle; and an Indian version of a hot chicken sandwich with an egg, yogurt-brined fried chicken in a tikka masala rub, on a glossy brioche bun.
Tacos include eggs in combination with various ingredients such as brisket, flat-iron steak, and elotes (charred corn). Salads include an egg salad, Cobb salad, and a "Green Goddess" salad with egg white, mixed greens, avocado, turkey bacon, tomato, toasted nuts, and seeds.
Avocado toast comes with avocado and an egg, of course.
Cocktails include mimosas, espresso martini, and original creations such as a vodka martini with salted egg yolk syrup, and a "milk punch" with tequila, dark rum, falernum, citrus, and milk.
Eggdaddy is from Syn Group, the Dallas hospitality company whose concepts include Social House, America Gardens, and Sidebar. This local provenance sets it apart from the massive wave of breakfast-lunch (and especially boozy brunch) places that have debuted around DFW in recent years such as Yolk, Huckleberry's, and Snooze. Yay us, we have our own homegrown place for day drinking.