{"id":2696,"date":"2013-03-26T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2017-06-17T21:07:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T02:07:41","slug":"this-weeks-best-bite-pancakes-from-jam-and-shrimp-grits-from-carriage-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/26\/this-weeks-best-bite-pancakes-from-jam-and-shrimp-grits-from-carriage-house\/","title":{"rendered":"This week’s Best Bite: Maple pancakes from Jam and shrimp & grits from Carriage House"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Maple<\/a>
Maple pancakes with meyer lemon custard, Indian sugar br\u00fbl\u00e9e & citrus rind conserve, Jam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Shrimp,<\/a>
Shrimp, grits, hunter gravy & tasso, Carriage House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Why it’s this week’s Best Bite:<\/strong> I had two excellent brunch dishes this week, and they were different enough \u2013 apart from their color scheme, apparently \u2013 that it was too difficult to choose a favorite. On the sweeter side, these citrusy pancakes from Jam were like a light lemon cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e with a maple foundation from the cake itself. The toasty sugar and candied rind added great crunch…and don’t even get me started on the bacon-sausage I ordered on the side (that’s right: sausage made from bacon). I think I liked these even better than the decadent chocolate ones<\/a> I featured from last year \u2013 and I also promise that Jam has more than just pancakes!<\/p>\n

On the savory side, these shrimp and grits from Carriage House, which I first visited during Restaurant Week<\/a>, were just the classic I was hoping for. The head-on shrimp were nicely cooked, the grits were creamy, and the gravy didn’t skimp on smoky, meaty flavor. I was also satisfied with the portion size, especially since we couldn’t pass up a little skillet cornbread on the side (I still can’t figure out their secret, but it is delicious).<\/p>\n

I fight the sweet vs. savory battle on every brunch menu. Savory usually wins, so I’m glad that in this case, I can call it a tie.<\/p>\n

The details:<\/strong> Jam<\/a>, 3057 W Logan Blvd., Chicago; Carriage House<\/a>, 1700 W Division St., Chicago.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why it’s this week’s Best Bite: I had two excellent brunch dishes this week, and they were different enough \u2013 apart from their color scheme, apparently \u2013 that it was too difficult to choose a favorite. On the sweeter side, these citrusy pancakes from Jam were like a light lemon cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e with a maple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2179],"tags":[13,18,76,134,209,235,269,275,639,705,708,723,753,840,1042,1116,1214],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-bites-2","category-chicago","tag-2013-best-of-chicago","tag-2014-bib-gourmand","tag-bacon-sausage","tag-best-new-restaurants","tag-brunch","tag-carriage-house","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-brunch","tag-jam-restaurant","tag-logan-square","tag-low-country-cuisine","tag-maple-pancakes","tag-meyer-lemon","tag-pancakes","tag-shrimp-and-grits","tag-sweet-vs-savory","tag-wicker-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4702,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/4702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}