(ukulele strums)
- After the 300th episode aired,
we went out and celebrated big!
- Fill it up again!
- In fact, the crew only just found me this morning.
So I need a strong coffee, and a big breakfast.
(restaurant clammer)
Thank you, Jennifer, Matt, and Michelle for sending us to
Roger's Park and Smack Dab.
Tansy, I need my pillow, and my cuddle cuddle.
(rooster crowing)
(hip hop beat)
Why breakfast, what is it?
Clearly you're a morning person!
- It's so good, so good.
- She's bright and vibrant, and I'm not even
awake before, like, 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
- I'm dying.
- So it sort of was a mix of, like, one, I love the cuisine.
I love making people feel taken care of,
and I like being more casual and more open.
- I'm never disappointed.
- Food is delicious, the coffee's great.
- It's a very community-oriented place.
- You guys have actual menu that encompasses
and empowers people with dietary problems, people with-
- I'm that person.
- Did you want the vegan sourdough bread?
- Serving a lot of gluten-free, vegan,
alternative vegetarian, is, it's just part of that.
- What would you say is your best seller?
- A little on the nose, it's called The Best Seller.
It is our cheesy herb biscuit, our house made
bacon jam on it, which is like a spreadable bacon.
It is delightful, if you do eat meat.
- That hits all, all the bases.
- It's getting there, but then we came out with
The Bestest Seller, because in addition to all those
components, it has our house-made sausage
scrambled into the egg.
- That's the kind of community
I wanna belong to, right there.
And I can get behind that,
and I will support that community.
First thing that went through your head
when you took your first bite into that?
- Cheesy biscuit, delicious.
- That's a great foundation.
- All the ingredients are top notch.
- Two kinds of cheddar, that's actually
a vegetarian biscuit, but it has the umami flavors of
meatiness in it for even people who don't eat meat.
This is our house made pork sausage.
It's an english style sausage.
- This is, like, a little breakfast portion
that my mom would send me off to school with.
(school bell ringing)
Like, in a little premade thing, with a little note
on there saying, "When are you gonna move out?"
- Look at that, skills.
And if you flip it too much,
now you're losing precious sausage.
- Well that was off-camera so you didn't see that.
One piece did fly out, so thank you for that, Christine,
for sharing that with everyone.
Oh yeah.
- You're just gonna be lifting and allowing the
egg to kind of fold underneath,
'cause what we're looking for is a foldable,
little bit gentle, gentle.
There we go, yeah, there we go.
Look at that.
Then you're gonna season it
with our southern blend of seasoning.
You know the moment of truth.
Now you're gonna flip it.
(tense music)
- [Elliott] That was an anticlimax.
- Mozzarella, provolone, and then again,
the smoked cheddar, and the the white cheddar.
Pop that little sucker right into Sally.
- Sally's short for salamander.
If you wanna get super, super, like, friendly with it,
it's Sal.
What is this?
- That's gonna be a spreadable bacon.
It's cooked down with onions, honey,
and it's literally just, spreadable bacon.
- Do you wanna let that sink in?
Bacon jam.
- Now we have our garlic chive mayo.
Then, you're gonna come back over here, trusty spatula, and
you're gonna fold it once, and then fold it again, because,
really we're gonna slide that right onto the sandwich.
- All that's missing, couple cups of coffee,
something for you to eat, and a table for us to enjoy it at.
- Perfect.
- [Elliott] It's fun to just people-watch other people
trying to take this sandwich down.
- Yup, I mean, you have a big mouth.
- I appreciate you noticing.
Clink it first. - Cheers, clinky.
You're, like, doing really well with that.
Like, in a hand, though.
- I'm a pro.
There is an aromatic essence to it, with the rosemary too.
So many different flavors.
It's a bouquet of flavors.
There is a reason it's called The Bestest Seller,
because it really is the bestest.
- Hyperbolic, but true.
- Right, which means this segment on Chicago's Best
isn't Chicago's Best, it's Chicago's Bestest.
- We're making history.
- Really is Chicago's best, you make history every day.