Granny D's is the place for breakfast. Look at those grits -- fully loaded with cheese and bacon.
Granny D's, located on TX-306 between US-281 and I-35, is a north Canyon Lake secret. Great home-style cooking and large quantities on each plate. The first time I came for their weekend breakfast, I selected the buffet which was wonderful: scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits, country gravy, pancakes, grits and home fries.
The next time was a weekday with no breakfast buffet, so I ordered a plate from the menu. The plate had so much food on it that I couldn't eat it all ... and I could get the eggs exactly the way I wanted. So unless you are a long distance runner or a lineman for a high-school football team, you may do better with ordering from the menu than the buffet.
Here are some of their menu items:
Robin's Nest:
We called this eggs-in-a-hole when I was a kid. Cut a hole out of the bread and grill each side, and add an egg. Granny serves it with the hole as well. I save the holes for Granny's homemade preserves for desert. See the bowl of grits at one o'clock. Granny will load the grits with bacon and cheese for an extra charge. Get it ... it's worth it!
Meat Omelet:
The meat omelet is overloaded with bacon, ham, sausage, and chicken along with cheese. It comes with a choice of home fries or hash browns. Being from Louisiana, I generally substitute potatoes with grits. Their grits are great. For a dollar more, you can get Gramp's Favorite with tomatoes, onions, and mushrooms thrown into the omelet mix.
Chicken-Fried Steak:
The chicken-fried steak with cream gravy is a must order if you are from out-of-town and just passing through. I always order it with biscuit, hash browns, and scrambled eggs. See that tub of jelly behind the biscuit. They make their own at Granny D's
Texas Two Step with Ham:
The ham is great here. Not that insipid ham you get in some restaurants. This ham tastes like ham. By the way, did I say their home fires were great as well. Cooked to the center, these fries have a crunchy outer layer and are great with ketchup on them, lots of ketchup.
Texas Two-Step with Bacon:
Two eggs with meat of choice and a serving of home fries or hash browns. Look at that thick bacon, and thoroughly cooked. You get a serving of toast with this plate, great whole wheat toast here. Toast is missing from the plate (I must have ate the toast before I took the picture).
Paw Paw Platter:
This massive serving is the Paw Paw Platter: eggs, breakfast meat, home fires or hash browns, and gravy/biscuits. Too much for one plate, but not one customer. Forget lunch.
Three-Egg Omelet:
The two- or three-egg omelet is a tasty option for those who don't eat meat or who are fasting during lent. Look how thick the omelet is. It's loaded with cheddar cheese. And don't use up all of your toast on the egg. Save some for the homemade jelly.
Biscuits and Gravy with side of Grits:
Here's a close-up of their biscuits and gravy. See the sausage creeping out of the side. Good stuff. Next to the biscuits is a bowl of thick grits. This is the best grits that I have had in Texas, and it's competitive with most grits found in the Deep South.
Big Dam Breakfast:
Granny D's is located near the Canyon Lake Dam and the structure there has created a "dam" culture for the area. There's a church below the dam, a Dam Red Barn, and the dam judge that will fine you if you speed in the area. So Granny D's has come up with the Big Dam Breakfast.
This plate comes with three eggs whichever way you want, two slices of bacon, two sausage paddies, a slice of ham, choice of home fries, hashbrowns, or grits, and either a trumongus pancake or sausage and gravy. It's hard to see all of the meat piled on top of itself, but it starts bacon, then sausage, finally ham. And that pancake, it takes up the whole plate! I'm no Adam Richman, so this breakfast beat me. I took home a doggie bag with one sausage paddy and half a chunk of ham, and only ate a quarter of the pancake.
