Brunch is a good way for restaurants to stay in business by making money at off-peak times, and also to provide food that's plenty tasty while being a lot more affordable than dinner entrees.
The culture that's grown up around that is, yes, tres insufferable. But the thing itself has merit, if you strip away the trend-a-licious trappings.
Well, perhaps. I have a confession to make- I go to "brunch" quite often. I'd prefer to simply call it a late breakfast, but I digress. The last time I went was on Saturday, in fact, and it was still "brunch" inexplicably at 4pm. I had fish and chips, which the person I was dining with said seemed very British of me. I suppose I really can't help it. Before that, it must have been... two weeks prior with another friend. I had a fantastic beef bourguignon crepe. Absolutely
fantastic. So it isn't all terrible.
Too, often, however, brunches are the assorted drabs from the weekend on one last round before the garbage. And I've been to one of those brunches I was railing against... in late September, in fact. The sort of people I call "those people", I don't usually hang out with them but I there I was. At least one woman was a hitherto-unknown hookup of one of the others, with the look thereof and the talk was just incessant gossip. Absolutely loathesome.
Xahar, are you telling me brunch is non-existent in your part(s) of the country? Fascinating if true. One thing I've learnt (suspected, but now confirmed) over the past year from canvassing over the summer in the Bronx, is that my personal experiences and social environment cannot at all be used to attempt to make make meaningful inferences in the world. (
such as this) I'm still inclined, for example, to think that the average house in this country costs $4-500,000, even though I know it's nowhere near that. The collegiate bubble can foster strange conceptions of the world, I will admit. At least it's not "social justice warriorism".
So if brunch is non-existent outside of New York and a few other cities, despite the endless stream of articles I see acting as if it were a universal occurrence, I would be surprised but not shocked. I've been to Houston over the summer, however, and there was brunch there. I went to one with the family, it was great!
