Blue Moon Grill Wakefield

I love Blue Moon Grill in Wakefield! The food is excellent, and the service is always great. There is nothing wrong with breakfast for lunch, and they also have lunch items. More importantly, they have Scali bread.

They are only open for breakfast and lunch and get wicked busy on weekends. You can call ahead for reservations. Their prices are very reasonable, especially since you get three eggs with your egg dishes.

They are located on the busy main street so parking can be iffy. Read the signs and DON'T park in the plaza next door. Of course they added outdoor seating.

The chairs are new, and there are plexiglass separators between the tables. There is more seating in the back left. Or should that be, front right?

OLD FASHION BISCUITS & GRAVY ($11.95). "Eggs, biscuits, & sausage patties, topped with homemade sausage gravy. Served with home fries". I always tend to ask for Scali Toast, and this time I actually got it instead of the home fries. The owner must have remembered that I'm not fond of their home fries. This worked out really well. My over-easy eggs were cooked perfectly and were actually fried, as you can see. So many places give you eggs with no color at all. They are more like steamed eggs and not fried eggs. The biscuits are soft, and the sausage patties are tasty. The hero here is the appropriately peppery sausage gravy that is chock full of sausages. The Scali slices are cut in half so that they can be properly toasted. 07/08/21

EGGS & HASH ($9.95). "Potatoes & lean corned beef with three eggs any style on top. Served with home fries & toast". The corned beef hash is excellent and made with corned beef brisket and not round. The home fries have improved, but they are not nearly as good as when they were peeled. Eggs cooked perfectly as usual. I'm not sure if I'm happy to get one egg with three yolks when promised three eggs 😁. 08/05/21

CRABMEAT EGGS BENEDICT ($11.95). "Eggs Benedict claw crabmeat, add asparagus or tomato (1.00 each), topped with hollandaise sauce. Served with home fries". I added asparagus and got a boatload of them for $1. I don't think they only claw crabmeat anymore, but real crab, at least that is what it tasted like. It was also way less crab than when it was claw meat. Two of the three poached eggs had a runny yolk. The hollandaise sauce was 10 seconds away from a complete split but wasn't as lemony as on my last visit. Homefries were almost as tasty as the old version. Their English muffins are light as a feather. 08/27/21

Irish Omelette ($9.95). "Grilled corned beef hash, home fries, cheddar cheese wrapped in an omelette". I ordered it wet, and it was. It was also loaded with their excellent corned beef hash. I got two toasted pieces of Scali bread and two untoasted. I also ordered a side of sausages (+2.95). 09/10/21

IRISH EGGS BENEDICT ($11.95). "Eggs Benedict with corn beef hash, topped with our own homemade hollandaise sauce". Two of the eggs were poached correctly, the third one was not. The hash was tasty, big chunks of corned beef and diced potatoes and onions. The home fries were cooked well but with the skin still on. The muffins are feather-light. The hollandaise sauce lacked lemon, and this time it had split. 10/08/21

For some reason, they use their excellent house-made corned beef brisket for the hash but are using round for their Reuben. The reason? We have always done it that way, and the previous owners did it the same way. Hence, no Reuben was included in this writeup.

Address 955 Main St, Wakefield, MA 01880 Phone number (781) 245-4470

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