Saturday Brunchin...

Day by Day

2101 Sansom Street

Philadelphia, PA 19103

www.daybydaycatering.com/ 

A friend of mine from Elon's family owns a restaurant in Philly, but I didn’t really find out about it until after we moved back up in the area. We began hearing more and more about it as we spent more time in the city and started dining out more. We decided to head up one Saturday morning and grabbed ourselves some brunch. As luck would have it, our friend was home visiting for the weekend, so we actually got to talk to him in the restaurant while we were there. It was pretty cool to see his family in action. 

The menu was pretty standard for brunch, with little tweaks here and there. We both looked over the menu and as we do a lot of the times when we go for brunch, we ordered one savory dish and one sweet dish and split them. I decided on the poached eggs Florentine and she ordered the banana bread French toast. We enjoyed our cups of delicious La Colombe coffee while we waited for our food to arrive. 

When the food came out there were some definite inconsistencies. Some things were great, while others definitely needed some improvements. The eggs were poached beautifully, so that when I cut into them, the yolk ran out nicely. The spinach and sauce were very tasty. The biscuit and potatoes were not as successful. The flavor of the potatoes was great, but they were a little underdone and definitely not hot at all. The biscuit was a complete miss though. It was hard as a rock, and it really didn’t add much to the dish at all.

The banana bread French toast was the star of the brunch for sure. They had taken what seemed to be a loaf of banana bread, and toasted it up in a skillet like it was French toast. The flavor was amazing! The banana flavor really came though, and the sweetness of the syrup and freshness of the banana slices only made it that much better. 

Two and a half pints for Day by Day. Since it was so up and down, its hard to give it a better rating than that. The banana bread French toast was amazing, while the poached eggs Florentine were a bit of a miss. I will be back to check on it again in the future and I hope I find more dishes like the banana bread French toast. Give it a try and let me know what you think! Cheers!