I was up in Grand Rapids for this past weekend for a friends wedding, and while I was hanging out with some friends someone brought up that I hadn't posted in awhile, my bad guys. It was great seeing my friends get hitched, and just catching up with old friends... ahhhh, refreshing. That's what summer's really about. Between all the wedding shenanigans hanging out with the groom, catching fireflies and catching up with my friends at the infamous Ball House, and the rest of my friends, it was a busy weekend and I ended up leaving GR hours later than I wanted. I woke up Monday and before packing up at the ball house and being detained by my good friends for an extra three or four hours (thanks Alex, Jamie and Melissa), I was picked up by my good friends Josh and Luke and taken to a place I'm not sure I had ever seen open. Wolfgang's Restaurant.
Now Wolfgang's is my kind of place, it's all about breakfast and it doesn't try to do everything. In fact it tries to do very little, but begrudgingly has a few lunch options and closes up shop at 4pm. I had told a couple friends only a few days before that they needed to come visit me and we'd go to Melt (an amazing grilled cheese restaurant which I'll write about sometime), and they proceeded to comment on how thats the new thing. Niche restaurants. You do one thing, you do it well. It's taken off in chains like Five Guys Burgers and Fries and Chipotle Mexican Grill. And as much as I love a fast food chain that makes food like a sit down restaurant at half the price, my heart belongs to those little corner dinners and hole in the walls. And that's Wolfgang's.This is not to say Wolfgang's isn't a nice restaurant. Oh contrare! Great atmosphere, clean, good service. But it's no chain, it's cheap and it's in East Town.
Now I love breakfast but I'm never up that early, so I felt like an early bird walking in even though it was noon. After all, in my three years in Grand Rapids I've never been past the place before 4pm. The menu at Wolfgang's is fairly large and almost all breakfast dishes with pop culture references or inside jokes for names. My dish was called the Mossad. Why? Not really sure. It had pork and cheese in it, so I'm fairly certain no member of Mossad would be eating it (for those unaware, Mossad is the Israeli Intelligence Agency).
Now this dish was such a mystery we had to ask the waitress how it was made, who was forced to admit she was herself unsure. However consensus was that the cook scrambled about six to eight eggs in a giant frying pan tossed in peppers, onions, sausage, mushrooms, cheese, you name it. After everything was mixed in, we suspect the hash browns he'd been cooking on the side were dropped in the middle, followed by a layer of cheese, then a slice of toast. At this point the entire foot wide pile of yum was flipped over on my plate, leaving a mound of egg literally the size of my face. Of course I smothered it in hot sauce and went to work, but the thing was so big even I couldn't finish it without causing myself considerable bodily harm. Luke's dish was large in it's own right but nothing like the mossad (which Josh also ordered).
All in all, Wolfgang's is breakfast done East Town style. It's reasonably priced, delicious, bang for your buck dining. So if you're in GR and it's too early for hot dogs, gyros, Ethiopian buffets, hooka, or cheap drinks, fret not! East Town is still the place to be.
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