Tuesday Feed: Pigs in a Quilt

By Jake de Paul on May 3, 2011

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The Hotel Murano describes the breakfast it serves at its Bite restaurant as "traditional fare with an elegant twist." In practice, its breakfast - as well as lunch and dinner - finds a happy medium between the two aspirations - its food and décor are interesting and pleasing without being demanding.

The breakfast menu offers twists like a Northwest Benedict (cured salmon with poached eggs and a plugra hollandaise), gingerbread French toast (with crème fraiche), "b&g" (cheddar biscuits, thyme white gravy, softly scrambled eggs and sausage), eggs Benedict Royal (with prosciutto diparma and plugra hollandaise - on the salty side but delicious) and a tofu scramble.

Of special note is the pigs in a quilt - a yeasty, circular, chewy, simultaneously savory and sweet, toasty and tinged the color of a tiger eye infused with smokehouse bacon baked in a Belgian waffle. Almost every bite includes the salty awesomeness of bacon.

[Bite inside Hotel Murano, 6-11 a.m. Monday-Friday, 7-11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, 1320 Broadway Plaza, Tacoma, 253.238.8000]

LINK: South Sound Restaurant Guide