The owner of Fast Break Cafe loves basketball, and his menu shows it, with “Skybox” entrees of chicken, steak and salmon, “Alley-Oop” sides and appetizers and “3-Point” tacos and nachos.
The bistro’s strongest play, however, may be the breakfast menu (served Monday-Saturday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.), with its red velvet waffles and chicken. Well-salted, palm-sized, white meat tenders or wings share a plate with one large, Belgian grilled pastry that’s quartered and dusted with powdered sugar. A couple of strawberries resting in puffs of whipped cream garnish what is already a wide palette of flavors.
Fast Break Cafe offers a full-court press of other ways to start the day with soul food favorites including shrimp and grits, biscuits and gravy and salmon croquettes (the latter not available every weekend, alas).
Among items served later in the day are a pineapple bowl featuring teriyaki-marinated chunks of chicken sharing a freshly cut pineapple with white rice and diced pieces of tropical fruit.
