I have to admit, I’ve driven by Taco Bell multiple times and wished I could pick up a breakfast burrito.  There’s only so many Egg McMuffins you can have before you need a break, and Burger King breakfast will leave you with a grease hangover through lunch.  Why hasn’t Taco Bell ever taken advantage of people like me who crave their food at 8am?   Apparently, they plan to.

The idea of bringing breakfast to Taco Bell has been going on for a while, but this is the first time I’ve come across photographic evidence.   They tried it out way back in 1992 at only one location, and the decision to test out a breakfast menu again began in 2006.   The breakfast menu has just recently been expanded to restaurants outside of the test market in Orange County.  375 stores are now equipped to carry it, and a marketing campaign is expected to begin in January 2010.  From what I hear, breakfast will be available in Taco Bells nation wide by 2012.  The new a.m. menu will feature Jimmy Dean sausage, Seattle’s Best coffee, Dole produce and Cinnabon alongside its chalupas, gorditas and double-decker tacos.

The thought of a grilled stuft burrito for breakfast literally has me wanting to take a roadtrip to one of the test markets.  Sausage and bacon grilled stuft burrito?  I want you.  I need you.  Oh baby.  Oh baby.  On the other hand, the “French Toast Deluxe” looks absolutely disgusting.  That’s exacty what I want 4 hours after eating breakfast.  Syrup fingers.

French Toast Deluxe

The Morning Wrap

Please allow me to introduce myself, I am a man of wealth and taste…I mean, I’m an old hometown friend of Todd and John who now lives in Norfolk,  VA, serving in the Navy aboard the mighty warship USS Nitze.  Recently, I was asked to contribute to the blog.  I have my own blog and will continue it, but also will be contributing here.

Enough of the pleasantries, down to business.  This afternoon, my division on the ship had our Christmas party at Jillian’s, a Dave & Buster’s-esque restaurant in the Waterside building in downtown Norfolk.

For those unfamiliar with D&B’s, it’s like Ruby Tuesday’s meets Chuck E. Cheese.   Basically, a family restaurant/bar with a huge arcade.   Basically, you can eat great food, drink beer and play videogames and skee-ball all in the same place.

I started my meal with a 23 oz Guinness

Never a wrong time...

and ordered a BBQ Bacon Burger, one of Jillian’s signature entrees.

stuid blurry camera phone!

Sadly, the only camera I had with me was my phone and the quality is lacking.

My two oldest kids both got mac and cheese with fruit punch.

almost as good as Mom's...

My wife, Amy, ordered the damn near biggest taco salad I’ve ever seen (another Jillian’s specialty).

Eat your heart out, Taco Bell...

My meal, as well as the girls’ included a $10 game card, so after enjoying our meals, we played some games.

After some gameplaying, which I neglected to  take pictures of, one of my fellow sailors ordered Jillian’s Killer Cake

It's bigger than you think...

We all (about 10 of us) shared it and there was still this much left…

Overall, this place was pretty cool.  The girl’s meals were only $4.99 and with a $10 game card, it was basically free twice over.  Mine was $14.99 with the game card (would have been about $10 without it).  Amy’s salad was about $8. My ginormous Guinness was $5.95, which is pretty decent for the area.  Overall, with tax and tip, I spent about $50.   Pretty decent lunch for 4, plus games.   My kids won a bunch of tickets and we got some prizes.  I got some Bubba teeth, Audrey, my oldest, got a bottle pop.  Amelie, my middle girl, got a paper fan, and we also got some Mike and Ike’s.  I noticed after we spent all the tickets (357) that had I been selfish, I could have gotten a Jillian’s pint glass.  Oh well, next time…

http://norfolk.jilliansbilliards.com/

333 Waterside Drive
Norfolk, VA 23510
757.624.9100 Phone
757.624.9500 Fax