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Monte Cristo sandwich with hash brown cakes Cinnamon roll crepe
Red Bicycle STORY BY BRACKEN MAYO PHOTOS BY SARAH MAYO
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urfreesboro Red Bicycle owner Jason Day will soon open another location of the popular coffee shop and restaurant on the Murfreesboro Public Square. Currently, the St. Andrew’s location of the cafe (also with additional, independently operated locations in Nashville) bustles with patrons enjoying coffee and more. Walk into the Red Bicycle—located in a fairly new shopping plaza tucked away in the sprawling St. Andrews residential area between Salem Highway and Old Fort Parkway—place an order, and take a table marker sign (probably displaying an image of a pop-culture character such as Beetlejuice, Weird Al, Indiana Jones or Chuck Norris) back to your seat to await your meal or beverage. Red Bicycle offers a full menu all day—a very hearty, meaty, nourishing menu, tasty and packed with a wide assortment of protein-based options, unlike many coffee shops, which may offer only muffins or pastries as an accompaniment or afterthought to the coffee. “We’re a full-on restaurant,” said Day of the Bicycle, which also happens to offer quality coffee, espresso, latte, cappuccino, cider and cold brew coffee among its large
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Caramel apple spice cider and chocolate muffin
Something sweet and something meat, coffee and mimosas, for breakfast, lunch and dinner
drink selection. Protein-loaded choices include a big, eggheavy burrito. As packed full with toppings as the Red Bicycle breakfast burrito is, it remains portable, and holds together. All of the fillings—choose from bacon, sausage, ham, chorizo, turkey or chicken in addition to the eggs, cheese and potatoes—should not fall out of the neatly pressed burrito up until the last bite, making it even a possibility for a traveler in a car eating on the go. Cooking the large burrito in the panini press helps hold everything together, gives the outside just a little crispiness, and makes everything inside melt and mingle all together. For those who love a good Monte Cristo sandwich, one that is not dripping in grease, Red Bicycle has you covered. The Count of Monte Cristo places thinly sliced ham and melted Swiss cheese in between slices of the fluffy Red Bicycle French toast, served with syrup. Meat + sweet! “The burgers are so good. You can tell they are fresh and handmade,” a pleased Red Bicycle customer, Elliott Tanner, said. “I go there probably once a week.” For a truly ravenous carnivore, or as an option to split with a dining companion, the Boro Beast Burger contains a full pound
The Dish
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