Shake Shack’s Breakfast is Real, and It’s Spectacular
Lunch is great, but there are few things better than a good breakfast sandwich. So when I heard that Shake Shack, the newly public billion dollar company and makers of one of the best burgers in the city, were offering breakfast at their Grand Central Station location (plus JFK, if you’re going somewhere), I had to try it out.
Shake Shack’s breakfast menu is served daily until 10:30am and includes three sandwiches – egg and cheese for $3.75, plus bacon or sausage, egg and cheese for $4.75 – and a few drinks. They offer Shack drip coffee, a special blend from Stumptown, as well as bottled and cartoned Stumptown iced coffee, as well as breakfast tea.
Being a proper cheapskate, I skipped the coffee (my office stocks Foldger’s) and went for the sausage, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich.
The sandwich is made with the same bun that Shake Shack’s burgers use. That’s a downer for me, because breakfast sandwiches made on bagels are clearly the best (only) way to go, but I didn’t come here for the bun, I came for the sausage – a pattie of pork sausage the size and thickness of a burger that tastes like it was made with a bit of maple syrup. In fact, the sandwich eats more like a sausage burger with an egg than it does an egg sandwich. It’s a nice spin on the traditional egg and cheese sandwich. The egg itself is fried over hard in a disk (like McDonald’s does it), but good. The American cheese is properly melted to bring the sandwich together. But again, the star of this sandwich is the sausage.
I’m sure a point of contention will be that the sandwich is small. And yes, as it’s served on a burger bun, it is a small sandwich. I tend to favor quality over quantity, so I think it’s a fine size for a breakfast sandwich. But yea, big eaters will want to skip it and head directly to their favorite bagel place.
I can’t in good conscience say that Shake Shack’s breakfast sandwich beats out a good bacon/sausage, egg, and cheese on a (preferably everything) bagel, but it’s a good sandwich at a fairly competitive price. The next time I have a hankering for breakfast sausage, I’m heading to Grand Central.
Shake Shack, Grand Central Terminal
Posted by Dan at 8:00 am, February 3rd, 2015 under Shake Shack.
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“…because breakfast sandwiches made on bagels are clearly the best (only) way to go”
I mostly agree, as long as you get the sandwich from a real bagel store. Since you mentioned McDonald’s, I actually prefer their breakfast sandwiches on a greasy biscuit.