Let the great food make your day!! IRON ROOSTER

 Restaurant: Iron Rooster

Location: Annapolis, Maryland

Cuisine: American

Price Range: $4 - $25
Website: www.ironroosterallday.com

Iron Rooster

Part of second floor dining area

Atmosphere: 
  With the beautiful location of the Iron Rooster, the mood is set before you even step foot in the door. As soon as you pull up out front you, are greeted by the valet service which is very polite and complimentary through the restaurant. Looking around as you walk up to the door be sure to take in the beautiful scenery! Iron Rooster is located downtown Annapolis directly next to the Naval Academy, so there's beautiful views of the water, shops, and docked boats. This is a great area for walking around and site seeing either before or after your meal.
  When you walk into Iron Rooster it is kind of set up like a house with a spacious upstairs, and downstairs for seating guest comfortably. Every staff member you pass while walking to your table greets you with a smile and a sincere good morning! The smiles and greetings along with the cozy feel that this place gives off is very welcoming, and makes you feel almost like your at a friends house to eat.  Unlike some dim,gloomy feeling restaurants; Iron Rooster has great lighting from a combination of artificial lights, along with the natural light beaming through the windows. This helps add to the liveliness of this restaurant and in a way brightens your mood! Lets just say I was pretty much sold on the place before we even set down, which is huge in my opinion of a good restaurant. Once seated, between the smell of breakfast food and seeing these amazing looking plates coming out of the kitchen you start to become anxious because you know you're in for some good food!

Staff:
 I will start off by mentioning that I waited tables/worked in the hospitality industry for 4 plus years and with that being said, the staff was amazing! Our waitress Brittany was the best! She helped us out with the menu since we were having trouble deciding, was very descriptive with the menu items, and made the best recommendations. On top of that she was very interactive and kept us laughing, by far the epitome of great hospitality! I feel a lot of restaurants' staff don't get the appreciation they deserve, which in fact they are a huge part of making a restaurant successful. Outside of the great food, the service will most definitely also be one of the reasons I will return and very soon!

The Food:
    Iron Rooster's menu is full of things that you are going to want to try just off of the description, so take a deep breathe and understand that you will have to come back a few times to try everything that catches your eye. Or you can just say to hell with it and try as much as you can off the menu! I think both options are feasible.
  We started off with their homemade brown sugar pop tart and Monkey Bread. Both of these tasted so good, that I had to focus on the TV screen and continue talking to ensure that I had room to enjoy my main course. The brown sugar pop tart was everything I was looking for in a pop tart. It was sweet, light,flaky, moist, and packed with flavor! This creation will make you never want to eat a generic pop tart again, the box stuff just cant compare! Make sure you order this with the intent to share, it is not your typical size pop tart and can easily please two or more people. Next, was the monkey bread. This was like the monkey bread I grew loving, but on steroids! They had this genius idea to put bananas inside of the monkey bread and top it with a rum raisin sauce! So your not only getting that sweet, sticky, fluffy, cinnamon sugar coated monkey bread; but your also getting sweet morsels of banana in every bite along with the sweet warm sauce on top. This has by far been the best monkey bread I've ever had, I'm still having flashbacks things about it. Even though we loved our starters we made sure to save some space for our main courses.

   My mom had the 2 Egg Breakfast with Scrapple, my cousin had the Chicken and Waffles, my girlfriend had the Biscuits and Gravy, and I had the Smokehouse Breakfast Burrito. All were great size portions and everyone couldn't stop talking about how delicious their food was. The Smokehouse Breakfast Burrito was so good! It was a huge flour tortilla filled with eggs, sauteed onions and peppers, roasted corn salsa, homemade thin sliced beef brisket and topped with a roasted Pablano sauce and queso fresco. The flavor was perfect, it was like a Mexican/barbecue infusion for breakfast. The corn salsa with that smokey brisket flavor paired together perfectly, and the Pablano sauce on top just helped marry everything together for a perfect flavor combination. This huge flavorful burrito is accompanied by a side of crispy, well seasoned home fries and is sure to leave you full and satisfied by the end of your visit. Iron Rooster also serves lunch and dinner which I will have to go back and check out very soon, just from my breakfast experience I'm positive lunch and dinner is amazing too!

Biscuits with Sausage gravy & homefries

Chicken and Waffles w/pepper gravy

Homemade pop tart and Monkey Bread

Smokehouse Breakfast Burrito

Recap:
   Iron Rooster is a great restaurant to bring friends and family, especially if they are from out of town. I feel like the location plus the atmosphere would send anyone back to their hometown with great things to say about Maryland and this restaurant. The staff is very friendly and a huge help when it comes down to picking out what your going to try. Iron Rooster really gave off a vibe like you were over one of your friends house to eat, which is always adds to a great dining experience. The food matched up to the staff and atmosphere by being creative, flavorful, filling, and satisfying. Iron Rooster has topped my list of breakfast spots in this area by far, and I will be sure to return along with recommending them to friends and family.
 

BON APPETIT!!