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This summer, Oakland\u2019s smashburger joint TrueBurger shut down its location on Broadway. Now, in its place, rises something new, something oval-shaped, something that goes great with bacon and hash browns \u2013 some kind of \u201cEgg Palace.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Future plans for the TrueBurger space were announced this week on Instagram by the folks behind Egg Pals, a longtime pop-up known for its eggy breakfast sandwiches.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rumor mill has been spinning but it\u2019s official, we\u2019re opening Egg Palace, a restaurant\/bar serving breakfast and dinner at 4101 Broadway, Oakland!\u201d wrote Egg Pals, which was founded by Chris Morgan and Brack DeFries.<\/p>\n

A message sent via Instagram asking for more information about Egg Palace wasn\u2019t immediately answered. It\u2019s unclear when this palace will actually open. But the post links to a Kickstarter page that is trying to raise $50,000 to remodel the former burger kitchen to make it more \u201cwelcoming.\u201d (Part of that includes building a new bar.) The page also goes into some of the history behind Egg Pals, which has run at least 250 pop-ups, and why it\u2019s transitioning to a brick-and-mortar now:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were regularly selling out each pop-up but were unsure of how much demand there would be from something occurring on a monthly basis. As the momentum grew, more people came, the lines got longer, and we continued to sell out of food on a weekly basis. That\u2019s when we decided that there was potential for this to grow into something more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The specialty at Egg Pals, which presumably will be front-and-center at Egg Palace along with other dishes, is its bacon-egg-and-cheese sandwich, called an \u201cEgg Pal.\u201d This should be a familiar bite to anyone who\u2019s spent time on the East Coast, and it has collected raves from locals and food critics. In a KQED interview, DeFries described how it is made:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018Egg Pal\u2019 is designed as exactly what we would want to eat as our perfect breakfast sandwich. We were set on brioche. It\u2019s soft, sweet. It\u2019s a must. American cheese, also a must. Then you get the salty, smoky bacon to go with the cheesiness that becomes a sort of sauce. And the brightness of the onions with the \u2018herbiness\u2019 of the mayo. It all gives some depth. It\u2019s very simple, but it also has essential components.\u201d<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s kind of like a burger \u2013 delicious, fatty stuff put between bread. That should help the transition from TrueBurger into a palace for eggs hopefully more seamless.<\/p>\n

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Details:<\/strong> Egg Pals is at instagram.com\/eggpals and its fundraiser for the former TrueBurger space (4101 Broadway, Oakland) is posted at kickstarter.com\/projects\/106429071\/egg-palace.<\/p>\n

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