Friday, January 2, 2009
Breakfast on Banks
Posted by Ian McNulty on Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:13 PM
A new breakfast spot called Huevos (4408 Bank St., 482-6264) opens today in Mid-City, serving a short menu of Mexican-style egg dishes.
It's another new addition to the city's mysteriously short list of casual breakfast joints, and it's also a nimble turn for the restaurant's owners, who saw themselves doing something quite different just a few months ago.
By the start of 2009, owners Jeff Baron and Bart Bell fully expected to have their gourmet pizza shop Crescent Pie and Sausage open in Mid-City. That plan suffered a delay in the most dramatic fashion when Hurricane Gustav blew down the dilapidated, one-time appliance repair shop they were renovating for their new restaurant.
Baron says they hope to begin construction on a new building for the pizza shop in the coming weeks and open in time for Jazz Fest, a timeline which would seem to call for a Herculean effort and a few miracles of permitting efficiency based on the state of the site today (see below).
In the meantime, he and Bell decided to turn the adjacent building into their new breakfast restaurant.
Huevos serves coffee from Bywater-based roaster Try Me Mills and baked goods from Alois J. Binder's Bakery as well as those made by Bell in house. The menu lists just five dishes, and none of them are the expected pancakes, waffles, etc., but each is distinctive. The huevos rancheros are made with a charred-tomato salsa, for instance, while the breakfast burrito is filled with spicy chaurice sausage made by Bell. The "huevos con tamal" pairs three tamales with two poached eggs and salsa verde.
Huevos is closed Wednesdays, but otherwise opens daily from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
--Ian McNulty
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Sounds good, I'll have to give that a try. Does everything on the menu have eggs in it though? I'm all weird and started on a vegetarian kick.
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Mid-City is making it's move! Thanks to the Sausage and Pie guys, we have delicious and serious flavor for breakfast. Other neighborhood joints are standard and okay, but Huevos is something else. These guys really know their way around the kitchen. The tamales are right on, and the sauces are great. Yes, almost everything seems to have eggs, but I'm sure some ovo-lacto-vegetarian fare is available for your palate. And fresh and rich coffee, doughnuts and muffins are a good choice too. We love you, Sausage and Pie Guys! Can't wait for the pizza joint too!
Just flew down there in a fit of ravenous hunger and BABY! Those huevos con tamal are some of the best I've ever had and I'm from So Cal aka Mexico. I almost ordered a second helping but then I remembered the high cholesterol level in 4 eggs. Anyway, absolutely deelish!
Just got back from Huevos and still hungry! Went with a group of 3 and left without having eaten. The menu is good but the place functions very inefficiently. First of all, the seating and ordering arrangement is very confusing and doesn't operate well. You have to seat yourself and there is no line or place to put your name, so good luck finding a place and keeping peace while you do this. Second, there aren't any waiters or waitresses; once again, not very efficient. The kitchen is too small to get food out in an appropriate time. That is why I left with no food. I waited almost an HOUR and it still wasn't ready! All these kinks have to be worked out if this breakfast joint is to survive in a city with way better places that run 100 times more efficiently
Stay far, far away from Huevos restaurant in New Orleans. The young, inexperienced staff does not know the first thing about service or diplomacy. We waited an hour for our order. Finally, I asked this clueless chick where our order was, and she told us they had run out of what we ordered. When I asked, "And exactly when did you plan to tell us that?" she replied, "Well, I'm telling you now." I hear the food is good, but we'll never know, because we're not going back. There are just too many good restaurants with excellent service to put up with this malarky.
