EJ’s Bayfront Café, the favored breakfast/lunch/brunch vacation spot in Bayfront Place, is taking its act on the highway.
Proprietor Eric Becker is taking up the previous Meridian Café, positioned eight miles northeast in Meridian Market on Pine Ridge Street. Becker is a classically educated chef who graduated from Le Cordon Bleu School of Culinary Arts in St. Louis. He labored in nation golf equipment and was a accomplice at Eli’s Restaurant & Lounge in Carlyle, Illinois, earlier than opening EJ’s Bayfront Café in 2012. His menu concentrates on traditional morning fare: omelets, benedicts, scrambles and skillets, complemented by plenty of vegetarian and vegan decisions.
EJ’s serves 450 to 500 diners per day in season. Regardless of the excessive quantity, Becker is dedicated to utilizing contemporary, seasonal produce in practically each dish. “Our mission was to create a family-oriented restaurant that may carry the group collectively and provide a home made, high quality product,” he says. The restaurant is pet pleasant on the massive out of doors terrace, and a county canine park is straight throughout the road.
Becker hopes to have his new location open by mid-Could. He’ll have entry to the recipes from the previous Meridian Café, which was recognized for gluten-free dishes. EJ’s Meridian could have 80 seats to start out and can be open from 7 a.m. to three p.m. day by day.
