Our judging panel is temporarily disbanded with Kreidl and Johnson away at college, but we hope all the restaurants are able to keep cooking so that we can keep eating and ranking when they get back.Just about anyone who needs a reminder of when to wake up these days relies on a smartphone or a smart speaker for their morning reveille. While Snooze took the gold medal at the end of the day, we want to commend all the restaurants on their fine variations of a true breakfast classic. We thoroughly enjoyed our taste test and would highly recommend the experience to every food enthusiast out there. It was to no one’s great surprise that Snooze won the competition with its truly magnificent OMG French Toast. However, the French toast itself was nothing special and the bread-baguette, if we are not mistaken-was too crusty. This dish comes with eggs, fruit and sausage as well as French toast, so we felt like we were getting more bang for our buck and appreciated that it was a complete meal. Lucile’s Creole Cafe 3/5įinally, we reached our last French toast: the Pain Perdu from Lucile’s Creole Cafe. The disappointing ratios of bread to custard to filling forced us to give Le Peep 2.625/5.
A mammoth amount of mascarpone filling to compensate for the size of this dish could’ve saved it, but it was scarce. We found it to be like eating a sandwich-the slices of bread were far too thick and it wasn’t clear that they’d been dipped in the all-important French toast custard. Le Peep was our fifth French toast of the day with their Stuffed French Toast. We gave Tangerine a very respectable 3.438/5. We enjoyed the pear sauce and toasted pecans, but they were simply toppings-the toast itself was unremarkable. Tangerine’s Pear French Toast was the next on our list. Kreidl didn’t see the issue with combining breakfast foods, so he scored The Village higher than the rest of us, bringing their overall to 2.813/5. However, we were looking for French toast and had to dock points because of that. Given that pancakes are my second-favorite breakfast food, I found it to be quite good. This classic take is often the best, but we found that their French toast tasted like pancakes. Their French toast stays true to the name, avoiding the plethora of toppings and complex flavors attempted by other restaurants. Snooze is a tough act to follow, but we hoped the student-favorite Village Coffee Shop would be up to the task.
We gave it 4.813/5, withholding the fraction of a point needed for a perfect score because there is always room for improvement and we were hesitant to award a perfect five so early on in our French toast ranking careers. It’s my go-to order at Snooze, so I expected it to be a front-runner in this competition and I wasn’t disappointed. Words can’t do justice to this holy grail of French toast, which consists of brioche stuffed with mascarpone, topped with vanilla crème, caramel, strawberries and toasted coconut. Next was Snooze’s OMG French Toast, which is as good as the name implies. We gave this dish an above-average 3.375/5. We liked how the frying brought out the toast’s cinnamon flavor, but the vanilla cream was deemed superfluous on top of the syrup. ( The Owl) The Buff 3.75/5įirst, we dove into The Buff’s French Toast Sticks, which are fried strips of French toast served with powdered sugar, maple syrup and some sort of vanilla cream. The score card for our comprehensive French Toast Taste Test. It was serious business, but someone has to discover the truth. We averaged the two scores to find the overall score, which determined the final ranking. We ordered French toast from six iconic Boulder eateries and rated their appearance and taste on a scale from one to five. I set out on this quest with Ella Johnson (’20), Max Kreidl (’20) and Ella Wiser (who doesn’t go to Boulder High but wishes she did). French toast is indisputably the queen of breakfast foods, so I made it my mission to find the best French toast Boulder has to offer. Now that leaving my house is an event in and of itself, I decided to re-enter the restaurant scene more judiciously.īreakfast is my favorite meal of the day (after the most important one, dessert). Before the pandemic, eating out was second nature and grabbing to-go from my favorite spots was hardly newsworthy.
We tried the French toast from six iconic Boulder restaurants and rated their presentation and taste, averaging the two to determine the overall score.įive months into quarantine, I was thoroughly bored with my family’s cooking and needed to broaden my food horizons.
0 kommentar(er)
