There’s a hidden gem proper in the course of certainly one of Lexington, Kentucky’s hottest sights: the Monitor Kitchen at Keeneland! The unassuming one-story constructing sits on the coronary heart of the racetrack grounds, and opens early day-after-day serving an affordable breakfast.
The Monitor Kitchen provides cafeteria-style eating; visitors seize a tray and silverware, then line up on the counter. There are menus posted on the wall behind the servers, and have a group of sandwiches; home favorites like a breakfast burrito, pancakes, French toast, and biscuits and gravy; and the breakfast particular.
The particular is scrambled eggs, bacon or sausage, biscuits and gravy, and residential fries for $6.50, or $9.50 if you happen to sub in nation ham. And all the pieces is out there a la carte as properly!
Right here’s the breakfast particular with nation ham, which could be a bit of salty for newbies.
This was my breakfast particular with sausage and grits subbed in for the potatoes. And a facet of heat spiced apples. I really like how the scrambled eggs are cooked up flat on the grill after which piled into layers.
The Monitor Kitchen does justice by their biscuits and gravy. Good tender biscuits and a well-seasoned gravy.
I preferred the spiced apples, too. A number of cinnamon, and really comforting in the course of the colder months.
The nation ham was good, however once more – very salty. At the least to somebody like me who didn’t develop up consuming it!
The eating room is embellished with images of successful horses from a long time as previous, in addition to jockeys, house owners, and different notables within the enterprise.
The Keeneland Monitor Kitchen is open Monday-Friday from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Saturday-Sunday from 6-11 a.m. To seek out it, search for the entrance entrance of Keeneland and comply with the indicators!
Keeneland Monitor Kitchen
4201 Versailles Rd.
Lexington, KY 40510
(859) 280-2449
Internet: keeneland.com/visiting-keeneland
FB: Keeneland
IG: @keeneland
