The Breakfast Club Restaurant at Tybee Island, Georgia

There is nothing quite like enjoying a huge breakfast with plenty of fresh coffee to start your day during a trip to the beach. The Breakfast Club Restaurant on Tybee Island, Georgia provides just this sort of satisfaction in an unassuming local dinner you'd hope to stumble upon. Located at 1500 Butler Road on the main strip of Tybee Island, the small crowd waiting outside most morning is a testament to the quality of the breakfast served within.

As someone in our party pointed out, the degree of grimacing and discontent presented by a diner cook is directly proportional to how delicious the food turns out, and this curious ratio is clearly at hand at Tybee Island's The Breakfast Club. It is as if all of the black hate that the disgruntled chef holds for the beach, hot stoves and customers is somehow fed directly into the sizzling bacon fat and transformed into something of beauty, not unlike the works of Jackson Pollock.

The atmosphere of the Breakfast Club is seriously bustling, but there is none of the expected rush to get you in and out as quickly as possible that you might expect. That having been said, the waitstaff gets stretched pretty thin, so asking for everything that you're going to need with your order, such as condiments, will help move things along. The morning soundtrack at the Breakfast Club is seriously kicking. There's not a whole lot of places where you can go to get your morning dose of cholesterol and shame to the tunes of John Lee Hooker, Jimi Hendrix and other soulful crooners.

The Breakfast Club's menu is the only sign that there is anything going on with this place that is more than average diner fare until your plate arrives. Despite the beach shack atmosphere, the surly cooks and the "more coffee, hun?" waitresses, the Breakfast Club can go a little further than a corn beef hash omelet (although that is an option). Take Huevos de Chorizo, for instance: two tortilla wrapped bundles of eggs, sausage, jalapenos and flavor with an innovative tomato concoction as a condiment in addition to sour cream. Or the house special, Eggs Florentine, a poached egg in a nest of spinach with onions, mushrooms and melted Swiss cheese. Other specialties include the South Sider Steak Sandwich or Helen's Solidarity (aka The Grill Cleaner's Special).

As for the portions? Well, let's just say you might want to cancel your power lunch with the Thompson account. I am by no means of a light dining people, and our 9 am meal at the Breakfast Club on Tybee Island had our entire party unable to lucidly consider our next meal until about five o'clock that evening.

http://www.tybeeisland.com/dining/brclub/