Ethyl & Tank

So here it is folks, our maiden voyage.

Ready for action!

For our first restaurant pick, we chose Ethyl & Tank,  located deep in the heart of the OSU campus. We are no strangers to this restaurant - they have an AMAZING happy hour with a ton of great craft beers on tap and creative cocktails. Their lunch and dinner menu is also phenomenal ($5 nachos on Tuesdays and Thursdays?!), but that's not what you came here for..

Brunch!

Nothing hits the spot better when you're slightly hung over than a thick and salty bloody mary and a ton of food. Ethyl & Tank does not disappoint. They have everything from sweet to savory, and some dishes that offer both, but we'll get to that craziness in a minute.

Being early risers, we managed to make it to brunch around 8:30am. The restaurant was pleasantly quiet as many of the fine young scholars were probably still sleeping off parties from the night before.

Naturally, we all decided to start with coffee. The coffee is brewed in-house (the Ethyl component of the restaurant) and is dark, robust and absolutely delicious.

Nectar of the gods

No brunch is complete without a traditional AM alcoholic beverage. While Devyn chose the Mimosa, Grant and Marissa chose the Bloody Mary. The Mimosa was as pretty standard as they come, but the Bloody Mary experience was a whole other tomato filled ball game.

Unfortunately, the restaurant was out of the bacon infused vodka. However, the cilantro and peppar proved to be interesting components. The cilantro Absolute provided a crisp and refreshing taste, while the peppar added a lot of spice.

After choosing your Absolut base, you're directed over to the bar with house made tomato juice cocktail as far as the eye can see. With different levels of spiciness you're able to tailor your drink to just how you like it. Moving down the line you'll encounter about 10 different hot sauces and all of your fixins' like pickles, celery, BACON, etc etc etc. Spices abound at the end of the line to add that last little something. Delicious.

House-made Bloody Mary mixes

Fixin's

Now on to the main event. Devyn wanted something sweeter, so she went with the Orange Blossom French Toast with Jameson maple syrup. The toast was crispy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside, just as it should be. We didn't taste orange in this dish at all, but it was still very, very good. The portion size was large but not outrageous, between the three of us we pretty much cleaned the plate.

Marissa ordered the Tank Pancakes - a wonderful concoction of three delightfully sweet and fluffy pancakes, topped with shredded pork, cheddar cheese, scallions and Jameson maple syrup. This is certainly a star item on Ethyl and Tank's brunch menu and offers the perfect ratio of sweet and savory. Just make sure you're really, REALLY hungry when you order them, because the portion size is no joke.

We tried.

Grant ordered the Breakfast Burrito. This was not Grant's first rodeo with the breakfast burrito - in fact, the breakfast burrito is pretty standard staple in his breakfasting diet. This Mexcellent burrito was particularly unique because of the crispy potatoes that were stuffed inside, along with all the other ingredients that compose of a breakfast burrito. This, along with just the simple good tastes stuffed into the burrito, put it near the top of bests in Grant's book.

With all said and done, this was a very successful first outing. Food was good, drinks were good and atmosphere was nice as always. Definitely deserves a place in your regular brunch arsenal. 

Food: 4 eggs

Drinks: 4 eggs

Atmosphere: 4.5 eggs

Price: 4 eggs

Until next time brunchers!