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Saturday was a beautiful spring day so we walked around the neighborhood and found a brand new place on 4th Street to get brunch.
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Satisfied brunch customer.
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Ellen loves Left-eye and Limehand.
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On Saturday a whole bunch of us met up...
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Mer and Sar.
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...and got brunch at Kate's (where we used to go for brunch almost every weekend in 2003-04!).
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Sunday was soooo cold. I remember bundling up and hiding my face all the way to meet up with this guy for a mega-brunch after a LATE night. Pancakes, RESTORE ME.
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...and Josh!
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On Saturday I went out to Queens to have brunch with Jared, Gurj, Jenny...
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Breakfast burrito, veggie burger and black bean soup.
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Later that afternoon we went to Alphabet Cafe (formerly known as DyNASTY!) for brunch. Their black-bean quesadilla is the jam.
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Not sure what Amanda got exactly but it looked awesome too.
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Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwich: scrambled eggs, melted cheddar, homemade tomato jam,with hash browns. OMG.
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On Sunday I had a late brunch at Clinton Street Bakery with Amanda and Cynthia.
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Sharing. Thinking. Chewing.
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Later that afternoon, we went to some place on Clinton Street for brunch. I love candid brunch shots. Look at Gurj's adorable little smile! She's so happy with her pancakes!
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I ordered the Eggs Florentine and went halfies with someone who got the strawberry French Toast. Half savory, half sweet is THE ULTIMATE BREAKFAST!
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The next morning I went to brunch at the Hotel Rivington with a big brunch crew to welcome Jenny's cousin (I think!) who was in town visiting.
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On Saturday we all met up at La Palapa for Mexican brunch!
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Huevos Rancheros there are no joke.
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We got our brunch on.
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The next morning we got up (a little too early for Meredith's liking by the look of it) and went to La Palapa for Mexican brunch. Ole!
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After, oh, I don't know....THREE STRAIGHT HOURS OF ROCKBAND...we finally had to take a break for food. Hello there, tasty delicious breakfast at the Dynasty (pronounced Dy-NASTY) Diner.
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On Sunday afternoon, I met up with Sarah and Leigh and we went to some fancy private club that Sarah got a membership at in Chelsea.
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The next morning Mer and I went to La Palapa for a little Mexi-brunch action with Brandon and Sar.
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On Saturday morning, we all got up bright and early and hit the Odessa Dinner for some brunch. Clockwise from left: Tom and David from Apartment, Kim, Meredith, Niki and the Fatty. (By the way, check out the brains on the Fatty reading Richard Dawkins a full two years before he became a household name!).
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Sunday Morning Brunch Club at Kate's Joint! Holy shit, remember when we used to do this pretty much EVERY SUNDAY? Clockwise from Left: Sarah, Meredith, Elhaam, Rob Hitt, Brandon, Josh, Ellen, Karen and Leigh!
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...and get our weird brunch on.
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Nobody fucks up a brunch-plate of heuvos rancheros like Sarah. Right after I snapped this photo, she picked up that plate and licked it clean.
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Meredith and her biscuit with egg, cheese and tomato jam *drool*.
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Meredith and I met up with Emily at Clinton Street Bakery for some tasty brunch and I was still so chilly inside that I actually went so far as to...
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The usual Satruday brunch at Clinton St Bakery with Sarah and Meredith.
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On Sunday morning I had Mexi-brunch with the mini-mogul at La Palapa..
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Karen loves my brunch ettiquette.
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Sunday morning I went out for brunch with Sarah, Meredith and Karen.
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Henceforth, I christen thee: David Bacon. (If anyone asks you can pretend it's after Francis Bacon. You can say that you admire his contribution to the modern scientific method with his insistence that investigation should always begin with observable fact...and not because you just really, really love bacon.
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The next morning we got up and my brother needed a serious breakfast to help him recover from having been hit by THE NIGHT TRAIN! When you're super-hungover you do things like order pancakes...
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Saturday morning brunch!
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Holy Fruity French Toast, Batman!
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On Sunday morning, I met up with the Tinnz, Karen, Emily and Sarah at Kate's for brunch.
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Me and Sar. The best thing about sitting next to people who keep kosher is...
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On Sunday morning I was supposed to go to brunch at Clinton Street Bakery, but the wait was so long that we ended up going to AKA down the street. Here's Ben (cewbrity RIP) and Lindsay.
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...I'll have you know that they both completely scraped their plates fucking clean! What's funnier than Sarah pulling the totally laid back "thumbs up for a job well done" face?
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On Saturday, the morning before the party, I met up with Sarah, Niki, Eva, and Courtney for brunch at Clinton Street Bakery. Sarah and Nikki were both having trouble deciding between dishes so they both ended up ordering two breakfast entrees EACH! That's right, EACH!
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And here's Niki with her fresh fruit pancakes with apple syrup AND her eggs Benedict.
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And here's me with posing for the "I'm a big pussy who can only eat one breakfast" picture. Now before you go and start complaining that Nikki and Sarah were being wasteful because there's no way any normal human could eat that much...
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Here's my pulling my sneaky "these girls are INSANE!" face.
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Keep in mind, these aren't no skimpy portions either. Here's Sarah with her Heuvos Rancheros AND her buttermilk biscuit egg sandwich (with homefries).
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After walking around for a few hours - we planned to go into town and play PAINTBALL! But then, um, it turned out the paintball place was closed on Mondays. FUCK! So instead of running around and getting exercise and being healthy, we decided to go to a nearby restaurant and get CHICKEN FRIED STEAKS with COUNTRY GRAVY. (*Falls to ground drooling and clutching heart*)
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After a restful night of sleep at Uncle Ira's, we woke on Monday to do some quick exploring of San Fran before starting the four and a half hour drive out to the ranch in North Fork.
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Fatty and his French toast.
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Oooof.
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Then I met up with Sarah and we ate waaaay too much Mexican food.
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Here's us bright and early out on our front porch enjoying a breakfast of Greek yogurt and granola. Mmmmmmmm. (ps - what's up, busted dudes in the morning?)
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I don't know if you know this, but Greeks drive like crazy people. Wait, that doesn't quite do it justice. More like FUH-HUH-HUH-KING CAH-RAZY PEOPLE! It makes no sense. You walk around Crete and all you see are these chilled out playas all taking it easy, sipping their coffee, taking their four-hour breaks...but all of a sudden, put one of them chilled dudes behind the wheel of a anything with a motor and all of the sudden they've GOT FUCKING PLACES TO BE SO MOVE OR BE KILLED! With that in mind, full-well knowing that renting scooters on a Greek island might lead to an early death, we decided to head to the restaurant across the street and enjoy what might very well be our last meal:
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A full English. Aw yeah.
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Fatty grabbed this pic of us too busy eating to look up. (Oh, and Charlene was with us too but for some reason she's hiding in all these pics!).
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...proper Full-English Breakfasts! Woooo! Beans, sausage, fried egg, bacon and bubble and squeak (and toast and friend tomatoes on the side)!
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All Life Cafe had to order was a plate of scrambled eggs with half-assed home fries. (But anyone who has eaten at Life Cafe will know that this dish is actually an improvement on their normal brunch menu. Someone should permeantly cut the power to their kitchen. Jesus).
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Most places were either mobbed with people or out of food entirely. And so after walking around for over an hour, we finally settled on Life Cafe (on 11th and Avenue B).
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The Six of us looking surprisingly not-hungover (um, expcept for Fatty).