Cheesesteak from Sonny's, brunch in montclair and

We got a chance to go to Toast in Montclair for brunch and as expected the food was excellent and Murphy even got the chance to beg a little bit for the bananas foster french toast.  I had to try for the first time ever the carrot cake pancakes. These could have been deserts instead of brunch.

The night before we ate at the remodeled Rosie's trattoria on the new patio and we had fresh pasta dishes. My pasta had a nice amount of crab and Leslie's had really good salmon.

Great surprise last night when Allie and Tyler came back from Philly with Allie handing me a cheesesteak sandwich from Sonny's in Philly.  Definitely top 3 of Cheesesteaks I have had in Philly so add that to the list.

My quarterly visit to Americana Diner in East Windsor yielded a very good combo of Burrata en Carrozza and coconut shrimp.

Local brunch places

The last few weekends we have focused on some really good local places for brunch in NJ.
In no particular order we went to Rockaway and Missy's Main street cafe.  I had one of the Specials in the Bananas Foster French Toast which was delicious.  Neat place with the check coming in a mini mailbox.

Mara's cafe looked good as a bakery but my Steak and Egg Burrito was a super Summer special. The pepper jack cheese and siracha sour cream was a really nice addition to the Steak and scrambled eggs.

Next up was Sweet Basil's cafe in Livingston.  Reviewers of this brunch spot focused on a number of good looking options but I had to go with something I never had in the Shrimp Benedict which was excellent but unusual. The ingredients were roasted corn & yucca hash with shrimp, topped with guacamole, two poached eggs & cilantro chipotle hollandaise co     rn & yucca hash with shrimp, topped with guacamole, two poached eggs & cila

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