when is brunch?

after noon is an early lunch!

The late afternoon equivalent is Lupper. Especially if eaten upon your lap in front of telly and/or the fire.

brunch should involve a coronation chicken sandwich. or eggs benedict. or instant noodles, or chicken congee.

i had a Brunner the other day though, because i was hungover and too tired to wake up and cook until 3pm, and then i went out later and didn't have any dinner. so it was kind of a breakfast, lunch and dinner all in one in a way.

hehe, isn't that from look around you?

However, due to his "brunch" mentalism (i.e. we're invited to arrive at 1 pm) I had breakfast first, after rising at a sensible hour.

If it's after midday, it's just lunch.

10-30 to 11-30.

Steve is correct, to say that elevenses are superior.

maybe so, tim and starry, but calling it brunch allows for so much more leeway with the tipple

Oh if you're just using this as an excuse to feel un-bad about bouzing, then go ahead with my blessing.

Much simpler is to stop worrying about bouze for breakfast, and learn to love it (er, occasionally, I suppose).

Yes. In my circle, it's normally at 1 pm on Saturday or Sunday.

Brunch implies the types of food rather than a time to me. I wouldn't eat fresh, thin-crust pizza (thinking of a specific restaurant) at breakfast, but I can damn well have a slice with an omelette at brunch. And I'd never eat an omelette after 9am unless it's brunch.

this can be also defined, as the equivalant amount of energy it takes to travel in order to get a brunch cooked for you by someone else

You're all barking!

Mad!

MAD I TELL YOU!

I'm quitting ILx!

If boozing is involved this early then I hope you're talking about the joy of ALL DAY DRINKING. I did a grebt post about this on lj once but bvggered if I can find it again.

As Nora Ephron, a longtime Upper West Side resident, put it in e-mail the other day, "As far as I can tell, the essential quality of an Upper West Side brunch seems to consist of milling in a large group outside of a restaurant for over an hour."

In the case of Lexington, KY brunch fav Alfalfa's, a looooong wait. (They have in the past been good enough to serve free coffee out front to those waiting for a table.)

Why the hell have I all ways remember that quote?!?!? Matt Groening has much to answer for.

i fucking miss ny brunch. if you got out of the apt at 10 you were an early bird, here in la everywhere's already packed at that hour

Weekend brunch is overrated, weekend early breakfast is underrated

Truth. I go to my local spot for a good, low-key cheap breakfast on Saturdays pretty much right when they open at 8.

i dunno how people are defining it to hate it, but if you hate "eating a big meal between 10am-2pm on a lazy saturday" this is what it sounds like when butts cry

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brunch in USA is basically all-day breakfast in UK, right?

I ate brunch two weeks ago. I had a nice time.

Having brupper tonight.

i dunno how people are defining it to hate it, but if you hate "eating a big meal between 10am-2pm on a lazy saturday" this is what it sounds like when butts cry

― da croupier, Friday, October 10, 2014 1:36 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Yeah, hating that would be what we called a "challop" back in the day

i dunno how people are defining it to hate it, but if you hate "eating a big meal between 10am-2pm on a lazy saturday" this is what it sounds like when butts cry

This idea blows. Sorry

you blow. Sorry

more food for me, hater

i will note i do not wait in line for 45 minutes but that is true in 95% of circumstances, not just brunch

also i've never lived in nyc and have only had brunch there maybe twice. when i think of brunch it's usually at a friend's or family member's house or something

breakfast food is great, just don't go to places with crazy wait times or overpriced, shitty food, jeez.

i cry no tears for nyc brunchers they don't realize how easy it is to get a good meal at a reasonable hour in a land where you don't have to drive and the bars are open til 4am

where here people are rolling up to valet service at 9am and JESUS FUCK

fuckin ned's prancing in at 8 apparently, sunshine on his shoulders making him happy

I seem to remember reading some other NYT or NYMag article about "brunch culture" or the "brunch scene" or something, which was actually about some kind of ultra-decadent brunches that hedge funders went to with models and bottles and shit, and one thing I really fucking hate in the NYT/NYMag is when people stealth brag by "hating" in print something that 99% of the readership will never experience. And given that this guy apparently once flew to Dubai for brunch, he seems to be in that category.

In Chicago we have Polish brunch. It's essential. Pierogi are the perfect brunch food.

fuckin ned's prancing in at 8 apparently, sunshine on his shoulders making him happy

It does!

I like brunch because the vibe differs from dinner, where people have had all day to accumulate anecdotes, jokes, and tempers. Brunch allows a slightly lower alcohol consumption with friends still figuring out who they're going to be that day because it's too damn early. The only thing that sucks about brunch is waiting till 10:30 or 11 a.m. or whatever; by that point I'm thinking of lunch.

brunch is stupid b/c waiting in line for food is some suburban chain restaurant shit. might as well give me a beeper and let me go check out bed bath and beyond for 45 minutes. if u want to go somewhere that serves both breakfast food and lunch food and coffee and also booze maybe and there _is no line_ and and that food is good sure holla at ya boy but if we are brunching just to get in touch with or closer to the ineffable spirit of brunch, like celebrating ~brunch~ as some sort of totem in concert with a bunch of other glassy eyed young professional brunch celebrants then you can leave me the fuck alone. and before yall are like ppl don't actually do that go walk around your neighborhood on sunday morning and check out the brunching crowd and tell me i'm wrong then

or you can, you know, make a reservation

or does Eeyore stay in his lean-to scowling w/Owl while Rabbit, Piglet and Pooh drink mimosas and eat bacon

Or go to a less popular place or one that texts you when your table is ready.

while Eeyore can be in Bed Bath & Beyond buying pear-scented candles for his lean-to.

Man, here it is 2014 and we're still on the internet talking about brunch, hipsters, whether the rent is finally too high -- I'm starting to feel like I've been waiting at this station too long and maybe my train is just not running

it's possible to make breakfast

I actually understand hating brunch but that NYT piece is some top shelf bullshitty unintentional self-satire.

reservations are good. not crowded is good. take me to these brunch spots that are both delicious and take reservations. not taking reservations is the single worst "innovation" of the post-fine dining momofuku'd-out world we live in.

why is piglet eating bacon thats fucked up

i mean as mentioned upthread we have to define what we are talking about when we say "brunch".

as da croupier already mentioned if we are just talking about a late morning/early afternoon meal that has some sweet and savory foods served together then i don't understand what the big fuckin deal is.

seems like everyone is throwing in 1) yuppies; 2) hipsters; 3) long lines; 4) overpriced bad food; 5) upper-class jerks; 6) nyc bullshit; 5) chain restaurant nonsense, etc into their definition without actually specifying why all that needs to be "brunch"

I think not taking reservations is just something that makes economic sense when you have lower check amounts per table (i.e. at brunch or at a cheaper place). You can't afford to tie up a table even for an extra 5-10 mins with a reservation at a busy time.

Like you can hold the table for the couple that's going to spend $200 with wine and dessert, not the one that's going to spend $40 on some overdressed pancakes.

We do what i guess could be called brunch on sundays during football season. but that is at home with friends and it often just involves some kind of eggs and bloody mary's or beers. is this ok?

wouldn't mind some carne asada with those eggs and Bloodys tbh

no carne, you are ruining the middle class affordability and artsy edginess of my city in which you do not live

i understand the brutal economic reality faced by today's independent restaurateur, i just think it sucks.

and marcos the reason all these non-directly-meal-related factors are being rolled up into "brunch" is b/c brunch is really a metonym for this larger cultural apparatus that (for many of its participants) necessarily involves these things: jetset yupsters waiting in endless serpentine lines for unevenly reheated slop benedict. well not really but brunch-as-social-construct-in-modern-america is pretty inextricably bound to particular images of leisure and class and a louche open-necked unshaven tipsiness.

like seriously no one here is gonna gripe about good food served during a generous mealtime window

well this is ILE

i dunno how people are defining it to hate it, but if you hate "eating a big meal between 10am-2pm on a lazy saturday" this is what it sounds like when butts cry

This idea blows. Sorry

― 龜, Friday, October 10, 2014 1:41 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Traditionally I make an enormous pile of monte cristo sandwiches and serve them with sugar and jam (or sometimes béarnaise) on New Year's Day with tomato juice and coffee to hungover people and I think that counts as brunch but that's a special occasion not every Saturday

you yuppie savage

and marcos the reason all these non-directly-meal-related factors are being rolled up into "brunch" is b/c brunch is really a metonym for this larger cultural apparatus that (for many of its participants) necessarily involves these things: jetset yupsters waiting in endless serpentine lines for unevenly reheated slop benedict. well not really but brunch-as-social-construct-in-modern-america is pretty inextricably bound to particular images of leisure and class and a louche open-necked unshaven tipsiness.

― adam, Friday, 10 October 2014 21:19 (1 hour ago) Permalink

i got your larger cultural apparatus right here. urban yuppies didn't invent brunch ffs, people have it after church in the heartland

at the point people start complaining about jetset yuppie blah blah the word "brunch" becomes redundant. it's not like y'all dig those people any other time of the week.

superfluous, not redundant, i mean

I was kind of thinking about starting a "the kind of ilx posts that there are" thread, because, for example, it seems like there's pretty much always someone who skateboards into the thread, reminds us that if you hate obviously enjoyable thing you hate fun, throws up a hang loose sign and skateboards off into the sunset.

brunch is exciting

true. among other things, brunch offers many exciting possibilities for eating mayonnaise and tipping

one of the first ppl i heard talking ostentatiously about brunch in the media (30 years ago) was Rush Limbaugh

Your mid 20s.