Brunch at Greenup Cafe

I'm not sure why it's taken as long as it has for us to write about this place. It's one of the first restaurants I visited when I moved to Northern KY earlier this year and, I've already frequented the place for brunch about 3x more than I've gone to any other restaurant in my entire lifetime . Suffice it to say the food is good: Damn good. But there's a lot of restaurants in the area with good food, so thats not the only reason Sierra and I are regulars.

First of all we need to discuss the pastries. A few years back I was in Paris just long enough to climb the Eiffel Tower and eat a few croissants. It was an eye opening experience especially for the burgeoning foodie in me who, up to that point, thought croissants were best had freshly warmed out of an exploding tube. These were different from anything else in the world. You could taste the history. You could sense years of trial and error, successes passed down through generations, finally culminating in the buttery layers between my teeth. Until I was introduced to Greenup, I hadn't experienced anything close. But the pastries here, honestly, are right on par. My favorites are the sticky bun and the raspberry cheese danish which, in particular, forces you to acknowledge why cheese and danishes were paired together to begin with. It's one of the best things I've ever eaten.

The second thing to point out about this place is that it's unique. There's always a place for pancakes and bacon but does everybody need to do it the same? You want to go out for breakfast/brunch on Saturday and "variety" usually means one egg or two. I can make plain eggs. But I can't make quiche like they do or homemade brioche like the kind they serve with their Eggs Benedict. And finally the coffee. I don't know where they get it but this, also, is the closest thing I've had to the European version.