Eat This Blog: Eggs & Corned Beef Hash, Freeway Restaurant, Toledo

I love a good breakfast. Have I told you I love breakfast before? Yeah well, I still do. If it were at all possible I’d have breakfast for breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, lunch, afternoon tea, luncheon, dinner, supper, before-bed snack, in-bed snack, a midnight snack, and even a two a.m. feeding.

This morning’s was a good breakfast. This is a Three Egg and Corned Beef Hash breakfast with the toast being replaced by a couple biscuits and whipped butter. Luna Pier Cook reader Dorothy might recognize this Corned Beef Hash as being from the Freeway Restaurant, across Navarre from St. Charles Hospital in Toledo. The restaurant’s been around since 1957, and many people I know recall eating there when they were kids. Yeah, this is real Corned Beef Hash. As the restaurant advertises it, it’s obviously “straight from the brisket”, being moist, tender and flavorful, with just the right amount of saltiness, cooked as perfectly as those three over-easy eggs.

Eggs like that make me jealous, as I need so much more practice at making them like this. I have the right pans …

Oh, and we can’t forget the restaurant’s signature “copper-topped” register counter.


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  1. yes I do recognize this hash and I think I need to get back over there for some:)

  2. MMMMHHHH. Looks good. Wish I was there. Oh wait, I was there. That place was better than I expected.

  3. My first time here, I will be back. I’m with you – I love breakfast! Looks good!

  4. I admit that I could probably eat breakfast at every meal. This one looks great! Personally, I’d give up 2 of the eggs for some crispy hash browns though.

    I love corned beef hash but it’s one thing I have never ever made for myself. Is it really that color at the restaurant or is the photo a wee bit off? The other colors looked perfect so I suspect it’s the former.

    I think more places should serve breakfast all day!

  5. For some reason, it seems like Toledo is a hard place to find a meal – you have to know where to go I guess. But corned beef hash is a treat that would make seeking out this place worthwhile it appears. 🙂

    kim

  6. @Dorothy, you know, there’s ways to make your own, too!

    @Aaron, I had the same impression the first time I ate there.

    @Carol, did I mention breakfast is my favorite meal? 😉

    @Durian, I used the light from the window for that photo and at that point it faded a bit. The corned beef, being real, is a little less pink than usual … but doode, it’s the flavor that’ll get ya!

    @Kim, there are plenty of good places down there in Toledo (6 whole miles from us). Tell me what you’re looking for, and I’ll make a recommendation.

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