Sundance Grill & Bar was the last stop on our Michigan brewery tour. It was not on the list and is not a brewery, however after a long, long night in Grand Rapids we needed a hearty breakfast. Sundance Grill & Bar was recommend to us by some friends. Their specialty is Mexican breakfast. Breakfast burritos, tacos and even nachos. The theme of this post is "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"
Well let’s start with the good, the BLT Bloody Mary "Spicy." Now I love Bloody Marys. I even use to ask for just blood Mary mix when I was flying as a child. I think that stems from seeing my parents, aunt/uncle and grandparents have a bloody Mary every Christmas morning while we opened presents. Sorry I have gotten off topic. The BLT Bloody Mary is really a light breakfast in itself. As you can see from the picture they serve this BM with some flair. It comes in a fairly large glass (looked like a Stella Artois glass) with a good amount of Ice, but still enough bloody Mary so you’re not done in two sips. Sundance puts 1 LARGE leaf of lettuce in the BM which forms a cone around the other extras. In center of the lettuce sits three crispy strips of bacon and a large tomato slice. Now comes the part that I have never seen before but is really pure genius. Sundance serves the BM with a piece of toast, a little mayo and a shorty of beer. I have no clue what beer it was, but by the end of this craft beer trip any light beer tasted so refreshing I didn’t care. So, I took all the ingredients and made myself a half BLT and sipped my BM and beer before my breakfast. The Bloody Mary itself was spicy as I asked for. It also had sort of taco meat flavor, which was unique. Not my favorite BM I have ever had, but the BLT concept was great and I will be doing this at a brunch party in the near future.
Well let’s start with the good, the BLT Bloody Mary "Spicy." Now I love Bloody Marys. I even use to ask for just blood Mary mix when I was flying as a child. I think that stems from seeing my parents, aunt/uncle and grandparents have a bloody Mary every Christmas morning while we opened presents. Sorry I have gotten off topic. The BLT Bloody Mary is really a light breakfast in itself. As you can see from the picture they serve this BM with some flair. It comes in a fairly large glass (looked like a Stella Artois glass) with a good amount of Ice, but still enough bloody Mary so you’re not done in two sips. Sundance puts 1 LARGE leaf of lettuce in the BM which forms a cone around the other extras. In center of the lettuce sits three crispy strips of bacon and a large tomato slice. Now comes the part that I have never seen before but is really pure genius. Sundance serves the BM with a piece of toast, a little mayo and a shorty of beer. I have no clue what beer it was, but by the end of this craft beer trip any light beer tasted so refreshing I didn’t care. So, I took all the ingredients and made myself a half BLT and sipped my BM and beer before my breakfast. The Bloody Mary itself was spicy as I asked for. It also had sort of taco meat flavor, which was unique. Not my favorite BM I have ever had, but the BLT concept was great and I will be doing this at a brunch party in the near future.
Now that I have talked about the good lets continue on to the bad. This was really disappointing. I am talking about the breakfast nachos. Now I love mixing breakfast with Mexican (see Taco Bell Breakfast post) but they really missed the mark on this. First I will preface this by saying I believe my nachos were sitting in the kitchen for a good 10 minutes. I could tell because everyone else got there food 10 minutes before me and the cheese on top had already started to solidify. This was basically your classic nachos but with eggs on top. The problem was it wasn't scrambled eggs on top it was like an omelet with peppers in it and cheese on top just plopped on the top of some chips. My opinion is the chips should have been topped with scrambled eggs nicely broken up and peppers separate so that each chip could pick up a little bit of everything. Instead I had to try and cut the omelet like egg puck which then broke the chips underneath. Don't get me wrong this still tasted great it was just poorly executed. Maybe bad is too harsh of a word, but the breakfast nachos were defiantly disappointing.
Let's move on to the ugly. Now this wasn't my meal it was my friends and it has nothing to do with the taste of the food as I did not try it. However, he waited even longer than I did for his breakfast to come. We eventually asked about it and we were told that the kitchen staff started to eat his food because it sat there so long. What a joke. I will say the manager handled it well and took it off his bill and still brought a new one for him. So that was ugly but I applaud the manager for admitting his team’s mistake.
Overall
BLT Bloody Mary - BLT great, BM good, A-
Breakfast Nachos - B
Service - C
Thanks for reading!
Let's move on to the ugly. Now this wasn't my meal it was my friends and it has nothing to do with the taste of the food as I did not try it. However, he waited even longer than I did for his breakfast to come. We eventually asked about it and we were told that the kitchen staff started to eat his food because it sat there so long. What a joke. I will say the manager handled it well and took it off his bill and still brought a new one for him. So that was ugly but I applaud the manager for admitting his team’s mistake.
Overall
BLT Bloody Mary - BLT great, BM good, A-
Breakfast Nachos - B
Service - C
Thanks for reading!