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The Cottage Newton MA

Crab Cake Eggs Benedict @ The Cottage- Chestnut Hill, MA

June 5, 2014

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Life with a baby certainly changes things. Obvious statement right there! I’m not complaining about it one bit since having Autumn has been that best thing ever but that meant that we missed going out for one of our best friend’s birthday festivities. We wanted to see him and celebrate so we figured out getting together for a brunch would work well.

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Neither of us had been to The Cottage in Chestnut Hill, which is actually part of Boston, Newton, and Brookline. Weird little factoid there! It’s a cute village that has some great stores, some of which are in a newly redeveloped shopping center along Route 9.

The Cottage serves lunch and dinner and have a great selection of appetizers, salads, sandwiches, and entrees. They even have a wonderful gluten free menu that is more than just ‘can you please hold the bun on my burger’. As well, their brunch menu is a nice mix of breakfast and lunch options. Price had The Garden Fresh Vegtables Omelet ($13) and our friend had the Fish Tacos ($15). They both enjoyed each of them. But let’s focus on the best brunch entree ever (besides waffles)… Eggs Benedict!

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Aside from my typical Eggs Benedict, I always like to get Bloody Mary’s. I like the savoriness of it and how it has a kick from the spice and the vodka. Mimosas are fun but I like how Bloody Mary’s come with accessories. Hello celery. Hello lemon. Good Bye Olives. Okay, so I don’t like olives but Bloody Mary’s are still so cool in my book.

This Bloody Mary has a nice crispy flavor from the house-made mix. I really enjoyed how much horseradish they used as well.

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I loved the look and feel of The Cottage. I would love to come back in the winter to sit by the fireplace.

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There are 2 Eggs Benedict options on the brunch menu. There is the standard Eggs Benedict, which is served with a Wolferman’s english muffin, canadian bacon, poached eggs that are topped off with a house-made hollandaise ($14). And then there is a Crabcakes Benedict, which has crispy crabcakes instead of the english muffin and canadian bacon for $15. Both come with homefries. I chose the later Eggs Benedict option since I enjoy crabcakes so much.

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Man the thing I love about Eggs Benedict is that runny egg and that buttery hollandaise sauce that just soaks into the Eggs Benny base and the homefries side. This Eggs Benedict was perfection in that regard.

The crabcakes that the Eggs Benedict were built upon provided a great foundation for dish. The crabcakes were made with large pieces of crab and little filler allowing the shellfish to star at center stage.  My only critique of the crabcakes is that they were not very crisp. I would have preferred for them to be crisper as the crunch was needed to balance out the interior crabcake texture as well as the runny egg yolk and the Hollandaise sauce.

The egg was the perfect kind of sunshine yellow that eggs should be. It was only slightly, every so slightly, undercooked (to my preference) where there was some clear albumin not fully cooked. It was slight but something that I had to pick out. Again it might not bother some but I’m a bit picky about the albumin not being fully cooked. Regarding the actual flavor of the egg, it was super fresh and the texture of the egg was lovely as well.

The homefries acted like a perfect little sponge to soak up any yolk that made for a quick escape. They were seasoned well, as nicely cooked with a tender center and crispy exterior.

I would order this again but might specify that I’d want the crabcakes to be very crispy. Kind of like when ordering hash and getting it extra crispy. uummm hash… Oh man, don’t even get me started on that.

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Rating

Crab cake– 32 pts

Poached Egg– 23 pts

Hollandaise Sauce– 25 pts

Hash-brown and Greens– 8 points

Total: 88/100

The Cottage- Chestnut Hill

Boylston Street

Chestnut Hill, MA

Filed Under: Boston, Dining Out, Exploring Tagged With: bloody mary, brunch, Chestnut Hill Ma, crab cake eggs benedict, Eggs Benedict, The Cottage, The Cottage Chestnut Hill, The Cottage Newton MA

4.4-6: Weekend Recap

April 7, 2014

{Friday}

work from home | get Autumn at 5pm | left overs | Grimm | popcorn | bed

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{Saturday}

dog park | haymarket | Petsmart | Price brought Autumn to NH to visit family & exchange stored breast milk | home doing work & chores | tacos for dinner | bed

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{Sunday}

fruit for breakfast | belated b-day brunch with Chris | shopping | make dinner and lunch prep | Price gave Autumn a bath | work from home for a few hours | bed

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Filed Under: Living Tagged With: brunch, crab cake eggs benedict, dog park, Eggs Benedict, tacos, The Cottage Newton MA, weekend, weekend recap

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