Downtown Gilbert is the home of many supreme restaurants, one of which includes Snooze: an A.M. eatery. Almost 10 years ago in Denver, Colorado, two brothers took the idea of breakfast food and innovated it into a high-quality restaurant dedicated to eco and family friendly practices to create a setting everyone wants to be around. My avid waitress, Jessica Larson gave me all the information I needed to know regarding the inspiration for Snooze. “They wanted to have a place where you could work, but you also had time to be with your family. That’s why the breakfast place was ideal because you could be out of here by 2:30 or 3:30 and still have time for your family.”

Since the Arizona location first opened up in July last year, the place has had an outbreak of popularity. “Snooze doesn’t do any advertizing. It’s all word of mouth and we have had a wait every single day since we opened,” Larson beamed.

Snooze is different from other breakfast places because the food is local which means it is fresh. Everything is imported within 250 miles of the location so you are ensured with top notch ingredients. “If you get an egg breakfast with bacon, it’s different than you would get at like Denny’s or iHop”, Larson explained.

I definitely had a different experience at Snooze than other breakfast places. I ordered a wopping cinnamon roll pancake that was drizzled in icing and syrup topped with pecans and powdered sugar with a side of cinnamon butter. As a side, I ordered two thick cut slices of bacon and crispy, savory hash browns. Growing up with a dad who cooked in a restaurant, I could taste the virtue of the ingredients specifically the syrup, bacon and hashbrowns.

The only recommendation I would have is to ask for the syrup on the side for the cinnamon roll pancakes because the icing alone was sufficient enough for premium taste.

My mom ordered a modern twist to the original blueberry pancake. “A buttermilk pancake topped with blueberry coulis, sweet cream and almond streusel surrounding a center of lemony cream cheese filling” according to the menu.

The ingredients are high quality. Every plate was artistic which I think can be difficult to do with breakfast foods.

If you are one of those people that enjoy a simple like-your-momma-made-it type breakfast, they have those options too. For example, the Snooze classic which includes three farm fresh cage free eggs cooked any style and your choice of ham, bacon, sausage, chorizo, pulled pork, chicken sausage or soyrizo. Includes hash browns and choice of toast.

Or, you can enjoy new twists off family favorites, “Our breakfast pot pie is our play on biscuits and gravy,” Larson explained, “It’s like a flaky dough that’s been made into a bowl and there is a rosemary sausage and gravy in it and an egg on top. So when people ask me if we have biscuits and gravy I tell them that we have our own take on it.”

Snooze also prides themselves in being eco-friendly, “A lot of restaurants have a huge footprint meaning that they make a lot of waste and use a lot of energy. So 90% of our food is composted or recycled and only 10% of our waste goes to the landfill.” They also have three different garbage cans: each one for either recycle, compost, or landfill. Snooze also offers vegetarian and gluten-free options.

Overall Snooze was a family-friendly experience where I could enjoy my food, enjoy local produce and enjoy the fact that I was helping the environment.