At Poppies Hotel on Poppy Road sits a restaurant devoted entirely to one dish. Scrambled eggs, but taken seriously. Scrambilious has been around since 2013 and positions itself as an all-morning breakfast destination, open daily from early to mid-afternoon. The basics are always the same: organic eggs of the highest quality. What you do next is up to you.
The concept is simple and that is exactly its strength. You put together your own scramble. What cheese do you want to go with it? Truffle Gouda is one of the options, and it's popular for understandable reasons. Then you choose your proteins and toppings. The kitchen prepares it for you; you get exactly what you wanted. Those who prefer a poached egg can do that too, with crispy bacon on the side if you like. The homemade croissants are there not as an afterthought but as a full part of the menu. And the specialty coffee is curated, which means it's been thought about.
The space blends seamlessly with the lobby of Poppies Hotel, and you can tell. Curved built-in sofas instead of straight chairs, walls in pale butter yellow, pastel aquatiles in places you expect them and in places you don't. Emerald green architectural accents pull the space together. The whole thing looks thoughtful without feeling like a photo studio. You can just sit there quietly without being aware that you are in the middle of an aesthetic concept.
The round shapes, pastel aquatiles, organic eggs and truffle gouda combine to create something you won't soon forget.
Poppy Road is not the first street you mention when talking about North. But Poppies Hotel has made sure the place is on the map in recent years. Scrambilious fits that narrative: a concept that is good at one thing and takes that thing seriously. The round shapes, pastel aquatiles, organic eggs and truffle gouda combine to form something you won't soon forget. Not because it's spectacular, but because it's right.