Eggs Benedict appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Eggs Benedict · New York City
Eggs Benedict is two poached eggs and a slab of Canadian bacon on a toasted English muffin, draped in warm hollandaise. The classic New York brunch plate, invented in the city in 1894.
Eggs Benedict was created in New York in 1894, when stockbroker Lemuel Benedict, hungover at the Waldorf Hotel, ordered buttered toast, bacon, two poached eggs and a hooker of hollandaise; maitre d' Oscar Tschirky put it on the menu (replacing toast with English muffin and bacon with Canadian bacon). The dish became the brunch-menu canon across the city in the 1940s and 1950s. Today every Manhattan and Brooklyn brunch spot runs a version; Sadelle's in Soho, Five Leaves in Greenpoint and Buvette in the West Village all keep the form (Sadelle's plates a smoked salmon variant alongside the classic).
Where to eat in New York City:
- Sadelle's
- Five Leaves
- Buvette