Soul Tasty Debuts Breakfast in Stamford: Great Soul Food And A Great Deal

Soul Tasty, Stamford’s only soul food restaurant, is waking up before the sun rises to whip up their new breakfast menu that includes an array of omelets, breakfast sandwiches, French toast, and a few southern classics.

Co-owner and chef Jean Gabriel teased Soul Tasty’s stick-to-your-ribs morning offerings with what’s arguably the star of the menu and an inevitable big seller, a fried chicken biscuit with a smattering of honey.

“It’s a southern-style biscuit that’s butter basted throughout the cooking process, so you still get the flakiness, the buttery taste, and the softness,” Gabriel says. “We wanted to get the biscuit to the point where when you have anything with it, like when you bite into the crispy chicken, that it meshes well together for a contrast of textures.”

As for the chicken part of the breakfast sandwich? It’s a boneless thigh, like the one Soul Tasty matches up with waffles in the perfect marriage known as…chicken & waffles. Gabriel tells us that he marinates the thigh in a secret spice blend, allows it to sit, rotates it, flours it, eggs it, then dredges it again for a double crunch effect.

If you want a veggie omelet wrapped in turkey bacon, Soul Tasty can do that!

The southern influence doesn’t stop with the chicken biscuit. There’s the obligatory biscuits & gravy with two eggs and a choice of meat and something you barely see for breakfast anywhere, fish & grits with eggs and toast.

For those not deviating from tradition morning fare, Soul Tasty has breakfast sandwiches on a roll or in a wrap almost any way you like it, omelets (including a veggie version), waffles, pancakes, and the classic two eggs any style with meat, home fries, and toast.

Gabriel mentioned that they’ll mess around with specials to see how they’re received because there’s “room for improvement on any menu.”

Currently, Soul Tasty is open for breakfast from Tuesday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. for all you early risers out there.

And there’s a 2 for $6 deal to take advantage of if you’re a two-breakfast sandwich type of person or want to bring one to someone you really like.

“We’ve been fortunate during the pandemic because we’re more takeout than dine-in and have gotten lots of support from the community, the college students, and corporation around Stamford,” Gabriel says. “It’s our way to give back with lower prices during this time.”

29 Main Street; Stamford
203.504.2625; http://www.soultastyct.com/