Breakfast of Champions // Highland Bakery

This is my all time favorite place to visit in Atlanta.  I have never been disappointed coming here.  Breakfast is the love of my life and Highland Bakery is bae. It's located in the Old Fourth Ward historic district of Atlanta and is really close to a bunch of cool stuff in the A.  My favorite menu item is shrimp and grits because they do a great job with that southern classic, adding a creamy jalepeno cheese sauce and a side of grilled foccacia.  Here is a close up of that goodness

Another menue favorite is the fried chicken benedict.  I'm not a high fan of eggs benedict cause egg yolk weirds me out as well as hollandaise sauce.  This takes the idea of eggs benedict but uses fried chicken instead canadian bacon, gravy instead of hollandaise, and a biscuit instead of an english muffin.  Yeah, it;s crazy and huge and delicious. And when they ask "grits or potatoes", I always go for grits ;)

Sometimes when I bring friends, the insist on getting "The Highland Breakfast" which is totally fine, it's the classic bacon, eggs, grits etc.  But I always tell them, "try something else", but of course my opinion goes unheeded.  To taut them, I get the cilantro corn pancakes.  It sounds crazy and weird and it kind of is but in all the best ways.  The cakes are savory, with little chunks if sweet corn in them.  They are layered with beans and eggs and avocado and salsa.  It's so unexpected and so so so good. 

The only thing that can make breakfast better is an appetizer.  And Highland has that.  It's this cinnamon bun.  OMG.  They mill their own grains here (side note: buy bread on the way out!) and this cinnamon roll tastes wholesome rather than overly sugary.  Mmmm. 

I go here multiple times every time I am in town.  If someone hasn't been before, I make it my mission to introduce them to it.  It is always a hit.