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Nellie's

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Sunday Brunch is a beautiful phenomenon, and it's made even more beautiful by the advent of delivery services. Which is how I FINALLY got to try out some grub from Nellie's Cafe, despite some setbacks with delivery. 

Now I was fairly, shall we say, hungover so I only got one dish from the cafe. Voila!

Morning Maple BLT(Maple Syrup, bacon, lettuce, tomato on rye. Served with hashbrowns) $9.75
Nothin better for breakfast
This is a pretty standard BLT, but with maple syrup. Perfectly satisfactory, and filling. The hashbrowns were good too but I usually prefer shredded. Honestly, the food was good but nothing special. I feel like I'd probably love this restaurant in person, so I'm gonna reserve my rating until I can get a better sense of what Nellie's is about. 

However, the real issue here was the fact that it took the restaurant an hour to confirm our order, and then another 40 minutes for it to be delivered. SkipTheDishes is usually pretty good about letting you know that it's busy as hell, but they kind of dropped the ball on this one. I was pretty grumpy until I noticed on the following Monday that they'd given me $5 back on my account. So naturally, I used that on another order that night because I can't stop and I won't stop. 

Continued in my next post! Happy Eating! 







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