Some people will tell you that true love doesn’t exist, but they’ve clearly never experienced the Crab Cake Benedict at Scrambled Southern Diner in Greensboro, North Carolina – a dish so transcendent that rational adults willingly sacrifice precious weekend sleep just to secure a table.
This pink-hued breakfast haven on Spring Garden Street has mastered the art of morning meals, but it’s their seafood-crowned Benedict that inspires pilgrimages from across the state.
The premise is simple: perfectly poached eggs perched atop genuine, lump-filled crab cakes, all blanketed with hollandaise sauce that achieves the culinary high-wire act of being rich without overwhelming.
But simplicity in description belies complexity in execution – and that execution is flawless…