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The breakfast menu will
feature such dishes as different
eggs Benedict choices using
sauce he will make from scratch,
Brioche French toast and other
breakfast staples such as omelets.
Biscuits and gravy will be one of
the choices, as well. The sausage
served at Fresh Table will be
made in-house, Allen said.
Lunch offerings will include
pork tenderloin and other fresh
meats in sandwiches, salads and
wraps.
Also offered will be lunch
catering for businesses who need
food for meetings and such.
“Everything we offer will be
scratch-made,” Allen said, noting
he plans to train a chef in that
style of cooking in time for the
opening.
“People who know me know I
am very anti-processed food and
there won’t be processed foods
at Fresh Table. We will be the
first to say that in Peoria. When
you think about it, that is an
age-old idea. We’re just going to
be offering a modern take on that
old idea,” he said.
Allen said he likes the
location in that it’s in a good
neighborhood, closes to
businesses and churches (for the
Sunday breakfast crowd) and it
is far from the people Edge relies
on for dinner.
Ashley Allen said she and
Dustin will market Fresh Table
as “bringing quality back for
breakfast. That isn’t to say Over
Easy Café or other places don’t
serve good food, but this will be
done our way, which we think is
the best way.”
The hours will be 7:30 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday through
Sunday. While some places that
serve breakfast open earlier,
Ashley said they’ve never
found that people in Peoria get
moving that early. The short
time Edge was open for breakfast
on Sunday, she added, it was
usually closer to 10 a.m. before it
got very crowded.
Kelly Mohr, who is Dustin
Allen’s mother and the former
owner of Magnolia’s on Prospect,
will be the general manager of
Fresh Table. “She was ready to
get back to the business,” Ashley
said.