Fat Hen Grill (review)

Went to the Fat Hen Grill on Citrus (Harahan) with my girlfriend for brunch this morning. Walked in and all the booths were full so we sat at the bar. They had a very lively and friendly staff. What I found pretty surprising is that the entire staff was white (not something I would expect at a diner in NOLA). The menu is pretty extensive since they serve breakfast/lunch/dinner all the time.

I ended up "making my own" order by ordering the Cajun Crawfish Benedict but instead of the Hollandaise sauce got the creamy crawfish sauce from their crawfish biscuit appetizer. It consisted of 2 crawfish cakes topped with 2 poached eggs and then covered in the crawfish cream sauce with a side of home fries. The cakes were good, the eggs were perfect, and the sauce was great. And the home fries had good flavor. This dish was excellent and probably the best brekfast/brunch dish I have had in New Orleans in a while and it was only $12.99!

My gf could not decide what she wanted so she ordered 2 things. She got the chicken fried steak and eggs breakfast and the whole wheat pancake. The chicken fried steak was very good and the sausage gravy they put on top was excellent. The pancake was HUGE! And by huge I mean probably no less than 14" in diameter. I'm not a big pancake person but it was good.

There were lots of things on the menu and not on the menu I wanted to try. (they had a oyster and bacon chowder special and a peanut butter pie I really wanted to try that were not on the menu) I will definitely be back! If you live/work in the area...I recommend you try it.