By The Law Reviewers / Dec. 2010

Remember us? We’ve been on Hiatus for a couple of months, but he was starting to get annoyed so we got up and left. This month, we go back in time to when things were new and the late winter sun was just starting to warm the valet stand at the Equinox gym. We’re talking, of course, about breakfast. Breakfast is like your mother: you love it, but you never make time for it except once on the weekend.

So, you may recall a D Magazine article a couple of months ago about the best places to eat breakfast in Dallas. Or, maybe you haven’t seen it yet because it’s not 18 months from now when you first pick up a wrinkled copy in your proctologist’s waiting room. You know what? This review has a very high ratio of jokes::actual review, so let’s get down to the tass brax, shall we? The next “best breakfast” article in F-Deluxe City, or D Monthly, or the Pennysaver, or whatever, better dang well have the Crossroads Diner in it, mmkay?

Crossroads Diner (www.Crossroads-Diner.com) is the brand-spanking new, yuppie-tastic diner near the Walnut Hill DART rail stop in Dallas, just down the street from your proctologist’s office at Presbyterian Hospital. It’s a little pricier than your typical American fare/diner food joint, but for good reason: the menu touts the freshness and integrity of the ingredients, and it shows on the plate and in your mouth (please close your mouth). Crossroads Diner also serves non-breakfast food, but for the purposes of this review, we’re focusing on breakfast, cuz that’s when we ate there.

The corned beef hash ($7.75) was unlike anything we’ve ever had before, mainly because it was made with real corned beef. Whodathunkit? The house-made corned beef is smushed around with buttery hash browns and served with two fluffy scrambled eggs. Add some rye toast and you got yourself a fantastic breakfast.

The eggs and homemade, ahem, locally made choziro ($5.75) came with – you guessed it – two more eggs (also scrambled) and some of the spicier, tastier chorizo we’ve ever tried. An extra side of grits ($1.75) was creamy, buttery and nicely seasoned to boot.

Crossroads pushes its sticky buns ($4.25) like they’ve been famous for years, even though the place has only been open for a few weeks. The servers talk them up, the hostess goes on about the frequent buyer’s card for them, and the website has a page devoted just to the buns o’ stick. Worth the hype? The bun we tried was decadently large, smothered in sticky syrup, topped with pecans, and unevenly rolled, belying its house-made heritage. It tasted… like a sticky bun! Hey, we weren’t blown away, but it was still pretty good.