Now imagine Cattanooga Klatsche adding a breakfast menu
As if being a coffeehouse among coffeehouses in Gatlinburg wasn't already interesting enow, thanks to thrift-shop kitsch furnishings and a light-hearted ambience influenced by the feline musical quartet of Couutry, Kitty Jo, Groove and Scoots, you could just picture their legendary back-alley coffee place, Cattanooga Klatsche, putting in a breakfast menu to give the Waffle House boys "sheer indigestion," as Scoots was fond of explaining the idea.
But at least you have brekkie simple, homelike (even with the place looking kitschy by design), definitely on the Southern side of things--even to where the coffee is roasted right in Cattanooga Klatsche (and also available to take along, whole bean or ground). Not to mention the menu having its own rather amusing little descriptive of what can be expected:
Try not to be surprised, diner, should one of the Cattanooga Cats "themselves" (of which this coffee place is their pet and pride here in the Smokies) come up to your table and strike up conversation on whim. They just prefer it that way, especially with a breakfast certain to be remembered alongside the tacky souvenir shops along the Parkway, or even hiking Mt. LeConte, among other distractions to be evident here in Gatlinburg and the Smoky Mountains. Who said breakfast had to be cheap, fast and easy?
Witness, for one, how they'd describe their take on the corned beef hash:
So much for the corned-beef hash served in mens' club buffets: Our take on corned beef hash puts even canned hash to shame, considering where we use nothing less than chopped up corned beef fried up in potatoes O'Brien--that's hash browns with diced green and red peppers for most of you. Who said the potatoes for corned beef hash have to be particular in some way?
(Not to mention reminding all that two poached eggs, toast and jam round out the whole.)
Even the legendary biscuits-and-gravy of their midnight gabfests gets noticed:
One of the more fascinating traditions the Cattanooga Cats "themselves" are fond of enjoying on occasion is sitting down to plates of biscuits and sausage gravy late of nights and discuss the look of upcoming concert tours or albums. Which is translated all the more lovingly for you, right down to the recipes Kitty Jo (the band's female lead) is fond of using, handed down more or less. No less than self-rising flour for the biscuits and a blend of mild and hot breakfast sausage in a rather smooth cream-style gravy. We're more than happy to give seconds if you care to; that's just how things are down here.
(They do make note of preferring self-rising flour for as much the biscuits as the pancakes and waffles--and some of the other baked goods served at Cattanooga Klatsche. And the grits ... nothing less than such ground in a lovingly-restored water powered mill, and when it comes to the topping choices, they let you pick them for your bowl, adding "If you can't quite decide what you want with your bowl of grits, we'll be happy to choose the add-ins for you!" Including such staple mix-ins as bacon and sausage bits, butter, shredded cheese, red eye gravy and diverse seasonings.)
And believe you me, the pancakes and waffles on Cattanooga Klatsche's breakfast menu (aside from the obvious use of self-rising flour, after the Southern fashion) have a remarkable lightness and digestibility, as if offering maple syrup, ribbon cane syrup and cane sorghum as accompaiments wasn't adding some choice as well. And did I mention also being able to order said pancakes with Malt-O-Meal or even Hovis flour from England (a whole wheat flour said to be extra nutritive thanks to the wheat germ contained) mixed in to the stock batter, for such liking extra flavour?
And the coffee: As with the other coffees sold at Cattanooga Klatsche, Fairtrade Certified sourcing, roasted fresh on the premi (and many can swear they can smell the roasting going on) and with free refresh of the mug as required. For such who prefer tea--again, Fairtrade Certified, and blended on the premi, including Original Cattanooga House Blend, English Breakfast, Formosan Oolong, China Hyson Green, Earl Grey, Spiced and Decaffeinated. (Iced tea can also be had for such interested, brewed from a closely-held blend of green and black teas designed for optimal refreshment).
And One Thing More from the breakfast menu:
We'd rather let the hotel and motel trade recommend us based on merit, as in whether they've actually HAD breakfast with us rather than paying them off to say nice things about us. Such isn't exactly good business sense, come to think of it; rather, it only cheapens the whole system of recommendations and could raise ethical questions. So if you liked Cattanooga Klatche's breakfasts, tell your friends--especially back in your hometown and considering a drive to the Great Smokies. And if not--let us know. We'd rather be the first to know of a problem, which can happen sometimes.
Such is how breakfast can get at Cattanooga Klatsche, which can otherwise get to be quite the coffeehouse in Gatlinburg bound to make even Starbucks and Dunkin' envious.
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Menu Monday: In the 1890s, if Princeton students wanted to visit Europe, they'd take an ocean liner. W. C. Spurance, Jr., Class of 1894, must have taken a transatlantic journey on the U.S.M.S. Paris in June 1895. He kept this breakfast menu in his scrapbook. Concerns about milk in particular and food purity in general may be reflected in the reference to "new milk" on the menu.
Scrapbook Collection (AC026), Box 179
The entire Menu Monday series
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