Washington City Paper: Work Your Way Through 12 Favorite D.C. Sandwiches This Fall

Washington City Paper: Work Your Way Through 12 Favorite D.C. Sandwiches This Fall

Usually it’s the runny yolk that takes a breakfast sandwich from ordinary to extraordinary, but at I Egg You, the bread pulls its own weight. Chefs Danny Lee and Scott Drewno source the fluffy milk bread from O Bread, a Korean bakery in Annandale. They first utilized it on the brunch menu at CHIKO’s sister restaurant Anju.

I Egg You is a weekend “ghost restaurant” that’s been operating out of CHIKO’s Capitol Hill location since September. Sample the signature “Original Egg” breakfast sandwich with a brown butter egg and fontina cheese on griddled bread. You can opt to add bacon or confit Logan’s Sausage for two more dollars or a splash of CHIKO hot sauce for fifty cents.

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28 Breakfast Sandwiches to Brighten Up a D.C. Morning

28 Breakfast Sandwiches to Brighten Up a D.C. Morning

In mid-September, Chiko chefs Danny Lee and Scott Drewno started experimenting with a new breakfast sandwich business at the Capitol Hill location. Five different sandwiches, built on milk bread from O Bread Bakery, are available from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Preorders go live on Chiko’s Toast page Friday night after 5 p.m.

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WTOP: Like eggs? New Capitol Hill spot aims to help you get your breakfast-sandwich fix

WTOP: Like eggs? New Capitol Hill spot aims to help you get your breakfast-sandwich fix

The restaurateurs behind popular restaurants ChiKo and Anju have morphed the Capitol Hill ChiKo location into a weekend brunch spot for those who like eggs. Especially the breakfast sandwich kind.

I Egg You is not a pop-up, but it isn’t a full-time thing either.

Fried Rice Collective chefs Scott Drewno and Danny Lee launched I Egg You on Sept. 12, and it operates out of the Capitol Hill ChiKo location only on Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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