Salt Yard Cafe & Bar at the Canopée by Hilton Portland Waterfront offered pudding options with sweet and savory bread for his entry into the incredible breakfast cook this year: 1) Maple / Blueberry with maple. 2) Local sausage with gruyere and fines herbs. Shawn Patrick Ouellette / Portland Press Herald
It was a turbulent start until 2025 on a national scale, so we are happy that there is one thing on which we can count in our own backyard: if it is at the end of February, it is time for the incredible annual breakfast cook, an extravagance of 11 dishes which collects funds for the street prebler ($ 8,000 this year, according to the organizer of the Gillian Britt event).
The event early in the morning, which took place in Sea Dog Brewing Co. in South Portland on Friday, attracted around 250 people, a closed window crowds, which voted on their favorite items. The cook launches the Maine restaurant week, so no surprise, the menu was certainly not the start of your grandfather’s day.
The 2025 winner at The Incredible Breakfast Cook-Off, a Danish cooked by Georgia Macon de Pretice Hospitality Group is not a bakery. BRI BETTS photo of @Seedsandandspirits
This year, the executive pastry chief of the Prentice Hospitality group Georgia Macon (twelve, Evo, The Good Table) took first place among the 11 competitors with his Danish. The elegant laminated dough in square shape was filled with an egg yolk, goat cheese and coffee “jam”. Macon was in competition under the auspices of Not a Bakery, a Prentice Hospitality catering truck which should be launched this spring.
The second place went to the head of the Bowdoin College Isaac Aldrich for a unique breakfast in Maine: maine lobster eggs, made of brunish celery, tarragon and chives, and garnished with crisp fries, smoked paprika and butter lobster. The third place show was union (at the Portland press hotel) the chief of the brioche of the chief Christian Bassett of Christian Bassett, made from pork to apple cider BElly, the Pacans collapse and smoked with hot honey. Breakfast items Aldrich and Bassett said Britt, were just a separate vote, “neck in the neck. As close as possible.
The culinary students of the Southern Maine Community College entered this article in the incredible breakfast cook, the event which opens the week of the Maine restaurant: the Toast at La Ricotta, which was made up of Relish-BlueBerry-Basil, of thyme-citron thyme infusion, scrambled eggs, ricotta at home and toast. Shawn Patrick Ouellette / Portland Press Herald
The egg shortage clearly did not inhibit the competing leaders, who also served articles with scrambled eggs, Dutch sauce, steak and eggs and savory egg yolks.
“Everyone who is witnessing is always very happy,” said Britt about the incredible breakfast cook. “First of all, there are 11 competitors, so it’s a breakfast of 11 dishes. I don’t know how people do it, but they do it. It’s just a fun, relaxed and very satisfactory breakfast that is also a fundraising, so everyone feels good. »»
John Savasuk of Portland and Shirley Lavoie from Saco take steaks and eggs, made of shaded downwards, browns of chopper fried with tallow, salted egg yolk, bearnaise aioli and chives. Sea Glass Inn by the Sea at Cape Elizabeth did the article for the incredible breakfast cook, where participants voted on their favorite breakfast items. Shawn Patrick Ouellette / Portland
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