Eggholic lights up egg dishes with Indian flavors Ordered mild, egg bhurji still hits your palate with a pleasant warming note. It's Gujarati-style eggs mixed with mild spices and veggies chopped as fine as grains of rice.Eggs are popular. Most people love them for breakfast, lunch, and even breakfast-for-dinner. So it’s no surprise that egg-centric eateries draw crowds in Louisville. Wild Eggs landed some 15 years ago; Con Huevos brought its Mexican flavors to our world of eggs in 2015.
Now Eggholic has come to town to tantalize us with delicious egg dishes in the style of the Gujurat region of Northwestern India.
A Chicago-based quick-service restaurant just on the cusp of becoming a chain, Eggholic is branching out from its original two Chicagoland locations to open in Columbus, Ohio, and Louisville. More shops are coming soon in Nashville and the Dallas and Washington, D.C., suburbs.
Eggs may sound like a strange ingredient in Indian fare, but Eggholic’s founders Lay Patel and his cousin Bhagyesh loved them when they were growing up iin Gujurat’s largest city, Ahmedabad.“Egg Night” meant a rush for egg-based street food, Patel told the Chicago Reader in a 2019 interview. “Every time we’d go there, we’d try something different,” Patel said.
Having moved to Chicago’s western suburbs with his parents in 2005, when he was a child, Patel quickly grew into a fast-food entrepreneur, opening several Subway shops in the city. But he and his cousin missed Gujurati egg dishes and the street-food carts called laaris that served them.
They opened their first Eggholic shop in 2018 in suburban Schaumburg, Illinois, creating a sort of hybrid between a laari cart and a quick-service Subway stand. They opened their second shop on Chicago’s Halstead Street a year later, and the Columbus operation shortly after that. Now it’s Louisville’s turn, and we’re lucky to be one of the first franchises.
As a matter of strange reality in this shrinking modern world, it may actually be easier to get an Indian egg dish in Louisville right now than it is in Ahmedabad.
According to reports in Al Jazeera and Indian Express, in mid-November authorities ordered the removal of non-vegetarian food stalls from main roads in five Gujarati cities. In the local context, “vegetarian” means what we would call “vegan.” So eggs were outlawed, too, as authorities shut down the laaris to avoid “hurting the religious sentiments of vegetarian Hindus” in the conservative state.
But we’ve got Eggholic, and Eggholic’s got eggs. Do they ever have eggs! ...
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http://bit.ly/EggHolic502Noise Level: Crowd noise wasn't an issue even with the room filling up at midday, but Indian pop music over the sound system was enjoyable but loud enough to kick the average sound up to 75dB, approaching the level of your vacuum cleaner.
Accessibility: The shopping center room appears to be fully accessible to wheelchair users.