The Patchogue Breakfast Crawl Is Making A Come-Back For A Cause

PATCHOGUE, NY — It's a come-back crawl for a worthy cause.

The Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce's annual breakfast crawl that was put on hold due to COVID-19 in 2020, is coming back in a big way on Saturday.

As part of the crawl, fourteen restaurants will offer up their best breakfast fare from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and there will be bikes from Pedal Party Long Island to transport crawlers on their food-tasting journey.

Participating restaurants include The Village Idiot, Tap Room, Buttermilk's, That Meetball Place, Toast, Rhum, Del Fuego, Rise and Grind, Locale, Swell Taco, Sobol, the Brickhouse, and Kilwins.

Tickets are $25 for five tickets, $30 for 10, and $35 for all of the locations.

The restaurants will be serving tapas or small plate-style breakfast items and crawlers will use their tickets as they go along to each stop.

Chamber Executive Director David Kennedy said that starting at 8:30 a.m., ticket holders can visit the chamber’s booth outside of Rise and Grind and they will be given a complimentary coffee mug so they can sample coffee as they visit each restaurant.

Kennedy admitted that going for all of the locations would be quite a commitment, so he recommended taking the middle option with the $10 ticket.

“You'll definitely be full and you'll feel like you'd have a meal plus,” he said, adding, “But even with five, you got five nice small plate tastings of some great breakfast food from some of our great restaurants.”

The great thing about it is that people can travel on their own, Kennedy said.

There will be two pedal bikes — one outside Capital One and the other outside of Rise and Grind, so crawlers will be able to take rides between the restaurant, which is a little further down Main Street off near Route 112, and the other locations.

That said, they will be able to start or end at the restaurant with a complimentary ride in between.

The proceeds that are collected from the crawl will sponsor the village's Veterans Memorial Park on Baker Street.

The park has four small monuments in the front that are difficult to see, unless you are standing directly on top of them, so there is an effort to raise money for nicer monuments that are more visible, according to Dave Rogers from the chamber’s restaurant committee.

“We've already got four coming in right now,” he said, adding, “And then we're going to use the money from the crawl to get some more.”

The committee plans to replace the older ones and make them more prominent, as well as purchase monuments dedicated to the current wars, recipients of the Purple Heart, and women veterans. But to do that they need to raise somewhere between $12,000 and $15,000, with some of the money coming from Suffolk County grant money.

Tickets will be sold up until about 11 a.m. on Saturday.

To purchase one, click here.