Forgotton Brunch Spot

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, I actually haven't been eating anywhere worthy of a witty blog post - until this weekend. Sunday came around way too fast while my best friend was visiting me from Atlanta and I couldn't think of one place for us to go to for brunch! We didn't want something too expensive, didn't have a reservation anywhere so didn't want to wait for hours and we wanted it to be good!

I turned to my friend Opentable.com for some inspiration and while they didn't have any reservations available for the hot spot brunch spots like I was hoping - it did make me remember about The Smith. I have only brunched there once and not only was it memorable but crowded. We decided to take a chance on the wait and bussed our way down to Third Avenue and 11th Street. I became disappointed right when we walked up because there were crowds of people outside waiting for their tables. They only told us it would be 30 minutes for a party for two so we trusted them and headed for the bar for a cup of coffee. It was a late Saturday night fyi.

Five fabulous minutes passed by when the hostess came up to us saying our table was ready! She must have heard my stomach growling because it had not been near 30 minutes. My thought is that she couldn't find the real people waiting for their table and chose us instead! I wasn't going to argue.

I decided to go with the same thing I ordered last time because it was delicious and it had been over a year since I last ate it. It's called the Potato Waffle Benedict and it was even better than I remember. Below is a picture that will help with my description of this amazing breakfast item. It comes with three or four small waffle shaped fried potato pancakes with poached eggs on top of every one and a creamy spinach sauce covered on top. The runny eggs combined with the sauce and a bite of the pancake/waffle is to die for.

Jade got the egg white omelette that was the size of a calzone filled with spinach and goat cheese with homefries on the side. The omelette was standard but the homefries are worth mentioning. I'm not sure what makes them taste so good but my fork ventured to her half of the table more times than I would like to talk about. We also shared a cheddar biscuit on the side not knowing that we were going to be so full from everything else and that it was going to be almost as big or bigger than a softball. It wasn't too cheesy and it was warm and flaky and everything a southern girl dreams about on a Sunday morning.

The Smith also offers a free drink with your brunch on Sundays so we both got bloody marys that weren't that strong but spicy and just the right amount of horseradish. They also had a blood orange mimosa that intrigued me, but our waiter said the bloody marys were the best.

I rolled out of there at around 2:30 and the restaurant was still as crowded as when we walked in. Don't forget about The Smith for brunch for a group of 2 or even more because the restaurant is big and they do take reservations.