The British invented brunch, a meal served in between the late morning and the early afternoon, featuring both breakfast and lunch menu options. Typical dishes offered on brunch menus in America often present a variation of eggs Benedict, stuffed omelets, waffles or pancakes, sandwiches and/or burgers. Brunch menus often offer alcoholic beverages such as mimosas, screwdrivers or bloody marys. New York boasts a plethora of restaurants that offer full brunch menus, but seek out the ones below for dishes all priced under $20.
Bondi Road is a small, blue restaurant on the Lower East Side of New York, with a golden-brown surfboard sign. The restaurant is famous for its \"Endless Brunch.\" For $18, you choose any brunch item from the menu and then you get an endless supply of mimosas, bloody marys, Fosters (beer), screwdrivers or greyhounds (another vodka drink). Their brunch menu is eclectic, featuring oyster shooters, buttermilk pancakes, hamburgers, eggs Benedict with crab cakes and fish and chips. Everything on the menu is $15 and under.
Bondi Road
153 Rivington St.
New York, NY 10002
(212) 253-5311?
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Located near Gramercy Park on Fifth Avenue, Bar Breton is a French restaurant that offers \"gallettes,\" which are buckwheat crepes, often found in Brittany, France. They are free of gluten and for $15 they come in a variety of preparations: with smoked salmon, with Canadian bacon, with sun-dried tomatoes and goat cheese, or chorizo and onions. For $19.95 you can choose any gallette, egg dish or omelet and a mimosa or bloody mary. They also offer several rich pastries such as \"pain au chocolat\" and caramel-stuffed French toast.
Bar Breton
254 5th Ave.
New York, NY 10001-6406
(212) 213-4999
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Hundred Acres is a restaurant in the West Village a few blocks away from Washington Square Park. Their brunch menu boasts a starter section, where you can being your meal with caramelized grapefruit, or banana walnut bread and honey butter. The main dishes on the menu range from shredded apple pancakes to roasted mushroom frittatas, poached eggs with jalapeno grits or French toast on raisin bread. Everything on the brunch menu is $17 and under. The restaurant doors are often open, giving diners a view of MacDougal Street, and the interior of the restaurant is contemporary and bucolic.
Hundred Acres
38 MacDougal St.
New York, NY 10012
(212) 475-7500
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