Bachelor Farmer

Two words:  breakfast appetizers.  Not "sides" like yogurt, fresh fruit, slice of bacon, or a ho hum cinnamon roll that usually frequent the "sides" portion of a breakfast or brunch menu.  No, legit tiny breakfast masterpieces.  Bachelor Farmer's Sunday brunch menu consists of four sections (pertaining to food) and three of them qualify more as these breakfast appetizers.  I'll argue that these three sections - on the cart, smorrebrod (smear bread), and sides - of the Bachelor Farmer menu are more delightful than the actual main dishes.  Thankfully the main dishes on the menu are smaller in size so you can feel free to indulge from these other areas of the menu.

Our brunch started out with Mark Dayton himself opening the door for my sister as she ran inside to put our name on the list.  After an awkward "you go, no you go"/"I am staring at someone famous"/missed photobomb opportunity (love you seester!), she got our name on the list and we parked the cars. 

I did not expect it, but the menu is very Scandinavian.  We had to google some of the items on the menu to figure out what they were.  Here's what we ended up with:

Bottomless coffee!  Duh.

This magical pastry filled with chocolate and butterscotch cream. There's also a perfectly sweet cinnamon roll in the background.

Mini bacon pancakes with syrup

Deconstructed eggs benedict with speatzle

Deconstructed eggs benedict with kale and beans

Everything was quite delicious and sharable.  We ended up not venturing into the smorrebrod portion of the menu.  #fail.  City Pages actually just wrote an article about it yesterday.  The smorrebrod menu consists of open-faced sandwiches - Danish bread with Danish butter and various toppings like fish, bacon, egg, or cow's milk and seeds on top.  They sound wonderfully interesting, we should have gotten one.  Another perfect breakfast appetizer to share - the bread is cut into four small pieces so you can share and order a couple for variety's sake.  

http://blogs.citypages.com/food/2015/03/21_brunch_toasts_at_bachelor_farmer.php

I was also very impressed with the prices - the sides ranged from $4-$7 and the main dishes ranged from $9-$14.  Very affordable for a North Loop brunch.