Parish

240 n. highland ave - atlanta, ga 30307

Saturday brunch is our new favorite pastime...especially when the weather is as lovely as it was this weekend. We discovered Inman Park a few weeks back and vowed we would go back and hit up as many of the brunch spots as we could in the near future. So this Saturday we settled on Parish. Parish offers delicious southern traditional foods with a modern twist. Very New Orleans type foods.

Their menus are printed on paper bags which is awesome. We sat on the patio, which is also covered, so you aren't forced to sit in the blaring sunlight. Their brunch menu covers the thicker menu, with specialty drinks listed on the back. The skinny menu is also dedicated entirely to beverages.

We ordered an English Breakfast tea and a Bloody Mary. Both had really great flavor...and look how cute the tea bag is! It has a little leaf on the end of the string.

With the drinks they bring out fresh, hot beignets.

Warm and crispy on the outside, moist and gooey on the inside. perfect.

Now onto the food. There were three of us on this visit. First up, the shrimp and grits. This consists of local shrimp, tomato and andouille gravy, logan turnpike grits, and a poached egg. Verrryyyy southern and a little spicy with a kick. Filling, but it doesn't leave you in a food coma.

Next, here is the fried green tomato benedict. What you see is an open faced buttermilk biscuit, poached eggs, smoked ham, fried green tomato, bernaise, and grits (which we substituted for their usual side of hash browns). Now this was our first encounter with fried green tomatoes, a southern staple...this was just fantastic! The perfect choice if you're craving something savory.

Lastly, you can tell we had a good ole american boy with us...not too adventurous (and possessing a massive appetite) he went with the American Breakfast: two eggs any style, housemade-ginger sage sausage or applewood smoked bacon (he took the bacon), hash browns or logan turnpike grits (obviously he picked the grits!). He also took the extra beignet!


We all left happy and full. The service was excellent and everyone was extremely friendly and accommodating. Our waiter kindly informed us that if we ever plan to come back on a Sunday we should definitely call ahead because it gets a little crazy. Parish is definitely on our list of places for brunch and if you get a chance you should definitely stop on by!

Park's Edge

913 bernina avenue ne - atlanta, ga 30307

Park's Edge has a slogan - Inman Park's Best Kept Secret. We had actually never even heard of this place until it came up on Groupon yesterday. The menu looked delicious, they have good ratings online, they serve brunch and the Groupon was pay $15 and get $35 worth of food so we figured 'what do we have to lose?!'

We got there at about 1pm (Saturday) and it was busy, but not crazy. We got seated on the deck in under 5 minutes. Sitting outside is DEFINITELY the way to go. They have big trees overhead, so even in the summer it's highly likely that it's still a nice atmosphere. Our server came to our table immediately. She was extremely friendly and even offered to make us drinks that weren't featured on the menu.

We decided to go with their $10 bottomless mimosas/bellinis. We started with a grapefruit juice/champagne combination (one of the off the menu drink choices). After we finished that carafe, we moved on to the bellinis. They were both good (and VERY strong...which is a plus in our book). The bellinis were definitely our favorite.


Less than 5 minutes after our server dropped off the first carafe she delivered a basket of fresh, melt in your mouth, buttermilk biscuits and strawberry preserves.

We are dying to figure out how they made these! Scrumptious.

The preserves were fresh and not over sugary. They had big chunks of strawberries mixed in. We then decided to order our food. Everything looked amazing so it was hard to choose just two plates. They have french toast, which is one of their signature items, but we were both in a more savory mood so we tried things more on the meaty/salty side.

This is what we finally settled on. You can see both of our plates and the presentation of their food is beautiful.

First up, this is their chilaquiles & fried egg dish. It's almost like a spanish breakfast lasagna layered with shredded chicken, corn tortillas, spicy tomato sauce, sour cream, scallions, and queso freso (this melty, creamy cheese). It was so filling that it could have been split between the two of us. We weren't sure about the corn tortillas (since we prefer flour), but we ended up giving it a try and are so glad that we did!

Second is the crab benedict with smoked salmon. We saw a bunch of people with this on their plate, so we asked them if it was any good. They all were in agreement that this was their favorite thing on the menu....and after eating it we agree. This was amazing. Neither of us enjoys smoked salmon for breakfast usually...like bagel and lox...just not for us. But this was executed perfectly. It's an open faced buttermilk biscuit layered with tender crab meat, poached eggs, hollandaise sauce and smoked salmon. The salmon wasn't fishy and the overall combinations of all the flavors was delicious and not heavy at all.

When it came time to pay, we only owed $10 total...so that's an extremely affordable brunch considering we each had bottomless drinks and a full entree. We got back on Groupon and bought another certificate, and we plan to head back very soon.