Weather making you blue? Here’s a brunch spot that will color coordinate and brighten your mood: Blue Door Farm Stand.
True (blue) to form, I stepped through a blue door into a modernly decorated space. The Lincoln Park restaurant’s white walls and light floors sent me on a direct flight to California. For a moment I forget that avocados don’t grow in my backyard.
The California vibes permeated upstairs, as well. The place was huge, and was poppin’ with moms with strollers, older ladies on their weekly Sunday brunch outing and millennials like me. The blue door does not exclude.
After sitting in a blue-backed chair, I glanced over the tempting cocktails list. Option paralysis took hold; I couldn’t decide between the three flavors of mimosa or one of the two (yes, two) types of sangria. So an oat milk latte it was. (As for the oat milk…the atmosphere made me do it, okay?)
The menu features in-season food only. What a fresh take! The brunch menu is egg-heavy, and offers omelets, breakfast wraps, benedicts and pancakes.
Call me boring, but I went with the “Diner Classic”: two sunny-side up eggs, hash browns, sausage patty and multigrain toast.
After seemingly no time at all, a big blue speckled plate came my way. You know how they say that eating food on a blue plate makes you eat less? I can personally testify against that theory. I ate the food almost as quickly as it arrived.
The picture doesn’t do it justice, but the plate is enormous. It was delicious but so filling that I couldn’t finish it off. As my grandpa likes to say, my eyes were bigger than my stomach. But, eyes still hungry, I made a mental note to try the pancakes next time.
I definitely recommend coming here for a healthy escape from the Chicago blues! Let me know what you think 🙂