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# Over Easy Is Coming to The Village, and So Is Everyone Else
- URL: https://blog.dwightdavis.com/over-easy-is-coming-to-the-village-and-so-is-everyone-else/
- Published: 2026-09-14T15:51:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T15:51:23.000Z
- Author: Dwight Davis

An Arizona brunch chain called Over Easy has filed permits to take over the old Blaze Pizza space at The Village at Meridian. Sydney Kidd at BoiseDev has the story ([https://boisedev.com/news/2026/08/31/over-easy-the-village-meridian/](https://boisedev.com/news/2026/08/31/over-easy-the-village-meridian/?ref=blog.dwightdavis.com)). The plan is to redo the kitchen, dining room, patio, bar and restrooms, open in the first quarter of 2027, and then open a second location at The District at Ten Mile after that.

If the name doesn't ring a bell, Over Easy has multiple locations around Arizona and one in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It has been on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and on TLC's Best Food Ever. The menu runs to banana nut French toast, something called a golden waffle dog, and a Monte Cristo, and co-owner Ryan Field says they make it from scratch, in house. The Village space is 2,818 square feet, which Field says is small for them, so they are planning a large patio with an indoor/outdoor bar and want to cover at least half of it so it works in January.

Field told BoiseDev that Idaho had been on his radar for years after visiting family who moved here from Arizona, and that when Blaze closed, "we jumped all over it." He also said they are looking at more Treasure Valley locations, nothing signed yet.

Here is the part I keep coming back to. Over Easy is one name on a list. The Village is adding more than 100,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, and the incoming roster includes Capital Grille, Culinary Dropout, Flower Child, Paris Baguette and Postino on the food side, plus Apple, Pottery Barn, Williams Sonoma, Vuori, Alo, Tecovas, Kendra Scott, Gorjana, Tempur-Pedic, 7th Avenue and Solidcore. Over a dozen new businesses in one shopping center, most of them opening within a year or so of each other.

So picture yourself as the person running a breakfast place in Meridian right now. Or the person about to open one. A year from now there will be a restaurant with two national TV appearances, a covered patio and a bar, sitting in the busiest shopping center in the county, and it will be new, which around here is its own kind of famous for about six months. Every other restaurant on that list will be new at the same time. That is a lot of first visits getting handed out, and only so many Saturday mornings to hand them out on.

I have watched this happen in other towns. When a center fills up like this, the food stops being what separates the places inside it, or the places within a few miles of it. The food is good at most of them. What decides it is whether anybody can find you, remember you, and say your name to a friend without stopping to think. Word of mouth built most of the restaurants I love in this valley, and I don't believe word of mouth by itself gets a place through what is coming to Eagle Road. Sixteen new names are going to be working the same mouths.

I'm not knocking Over Easy. Field did what a smart owner does. He watched a space he wanted, waited, and moved the day it came open. The place I'm curious about is the one two doors down, or across the parking lot, or over on Main Street in downtown Meridian, that has been doing fine on regulars and a good reputation. The next twelve months at The Village are going to tell those owners something about how well "everybody knows us" holds up when everybody is looking at something shiny.

I'll be there for the waffle dog, for the record. I just hope the place I already like is still busy that morning too.