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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).
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Sadelle's on West Broadway runs the city's most theatrical Jewish brunch in New York City. Located in Soho. Open daily 09:00-15:30. At 463 W. Broadway.
OrderThe Sadelle's Tower: bagels, lox, whitefish, sturgeon, the tableside cart.
TipThe Sunday booking is the hardest seat in SoHo. Weekday 11:30 walks in at the bar without waiting.
Jody Williams's Grove Street gastrotheque has poured espresso and steamed eggs in the West Village New York City since 2011. Open daily 08:00-23:30.
OrderSteamed eggs and tartine au jambon.
TipWeekday 09:30 is the fast seat; weekends run 60 minutes by 11:00. The tartine au jambon is the brunch order.
Five Leaves on Bedford Avenue has run Greenpoint brunch in New York City since 2008. Antipodean-style all-day breakfast, ricotta pancakes, fish-shop ceilings.
OrderTruffle fries and the ricotta pancakes.
TipWalk in at 10:30 to claim a sidewalk table; the wait runs 60 minutes after 11:30. Quieter on Mondays.
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