Grand Street Cafe now open for breakfast

​Grand Street Cafe launched its new breakfast menu on Monday with a number of sweet and savory options designed to lure in the Plaza corporate crowd. 

“We expect to have a strong business crowd, it’s definitely going to be a big component,” Chef Ian Hockenberger said when Fat City caught up with him in the dining room earlier this week.

The new menu grew out of an informal arrangement. Grand Street Cafe regularly hosts two to three breakfast parties a week; now it will be hosting breakfast on Monday to Saturday from 7 to 10 a.m. And brunch is still on from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sundays. 

Breakfast will feature staples of the traditional brunch — Griddles (pancakes, belgian waffles, or french toast, $6) and Benedicts (three kinds, including the Tide Water with crab cakes, $10). But it will also have a few wrinkles, like the Monte Cristo (house-smoked turkey, ham and brie on brioche French toast, topped with cranberry chutney ($7), and huevos rancheros ($8).