What to order: Sushi for breakfast at Kitchen Laurel
The cake roll comes with sausage, a scrambled egg sheet and everything cream cheese rolled in rice and nori. (Jennifer Chandler/The Daily Memphian file)
Ellen Chamberlain
Ellen Chamberlain is a global citizen who is happy to call Memphis her forever home. The Michigan native has worked in media for nearly 25 years as a radio broadcaster, journalist and ghostwriter. As The Daily Memphian’s food and restaurant writer, she gives readers inside perspectives of their favorite restaurants and the people behind them, suggestions for the best bites around town and the latest food news from in and around Shelby County.
Chef Kevin Sullivan of Kitchen Laurel is taking whatever notions you had about fusion, breakfast or comfort food and flipping them upside down.
His Midtown restaurant serves breakfast and lunch rooted in Southern tradition and complemented by nods to meager staples, twists on classics and Asian cooking techniques. But his menu also features typical American fare like biscuits and gravy and the Alberta breakfast — a massive platter of grits, two eggs, breakfast meats, breakfast potatoes and bread.
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