Coffee and a Conversation
As Told Over Brunch is a home for intelligent discourse from the twenty-something perspective - so the stuff you gossip about over mimosas on Sunday morning or over takeout on your friend's couch when happy hour ends too early. We love chatting about our lives, whether it be the relationships we’re building (or destroying), lessons we've learned at work, struggles at school, growing pains we've felt, or even the food we’re talking over.
One of my favorite dad jokes is to walk into an empty restaurant, turn to a friend and say, “Like how I rented it out for you?”
No one ever laughs, so I keep saying it, waiting for it to land. FINALLY my friend chuckled when I said it as we walked into Perch for brunch this Sunday. We considered making reservations, but since we showed up at 10:03 a.m. and the place opens at 10 a.m., we thought we’d be safe.
And that we were.
Read MoreIf any of you are How I Met Your Mother fans, you know about Barney's perfect week. For those of you who don't, the perfect week is Barney having sex with a different girl every day for a week.
Having sex with seven different men in one week sounds disgusting to me, but I can envision the perfect week... of food. No diets included, this is the week of perfect food that I would plan for myself in Richmond.
Read MoreThe story of going to Max’s on Broad (which isn’t on Broad St.; it’s off of Broad) begins with a friend asking if I had been. People assume I’ve been to every brunch place Richmond has to offer since I write for this blog, but, readers, time is finite, and ATOB isn’t a nonprofit, so I have to self-fund these brunch adventures.
So, friend who asked, no, I haven’t been.
My friend then told me I had to go, which is every friend’s inevitable advice about any restaurant they bring up in conversation. “They’re a Belgian place,” my friend explained.
Read MoreI really only keep people around who offer their opinions up for stellar brunch places, and that’s how I ended up at 23rd and Main Saturday morning. My experience previously with 23rd and Main was showing up for my second Restaurant Week rendezvous, which was much better than the first Restaurant Week experience I had at La Grotta. That was the one and only time I’d ever been to 23rd and Main prior to today, and it was pretty delicious. I had a crab dip, steak and dessert, all paired with a deliciously dry red wine.
23rd and Main was surprisingly not busy for brunch when we arrived, and were able to sit down immediately. We got a perfect table in the middle of their courtyard, with just enough shade to keep me from sweating to death. Not only does 23rd and Main offer a specialty brunch menu, but also serves from their full menu and full bar for brunch. My decision was pretty easy: nothing sounds quite as fascinating as the Don Johnson, which is a tempura-fried burrito.
Read MoreWord's getting out that I write a weekly brunch review, so naturally when people bring it up, one of their first follow-up questions is:
And boy, is that a loaded question. It depends what kind of day you're trying to have: are we going for classy? Or are we talking about where you can go day-drink and get drunk off pitchers of mimosas? Are you looking for a dive bar or white table cloth? Do you want healthy or filling?
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