Saturday morning I woke up feeling refreshed after a 12 hour sleep the night before. I guess I didn't realize how tired I really was last week. Of course the first thought that popped into my head when I awoke was "where am I going to eat brunch today?"
After a short brainstorm later, Lindsey and I decided on Cafe Orlin in the East Village. Much bigger than a cafe, with outside seating, cheap prices and breakfast until 4pm, Cafe Orlin is a staple restaurant and should be added to everyone's lists for breakfast or lunch and maybe even for dinner. The menu is all Middle Eastern with different kind of salads, dips and cheeses but they do also have the standard egg dishes, oatmeal and bagels with lox.
The wait wasn't that long even though it was intimidating walking up seeing groups of people waiting on the side walk. We took the first table available, not being able to wait for a table outside. But if you remember the weather from Saturday, my allergies were in full force so a table inside was even better.
It wasn't hard to pick out what I was going to eat, I spotted it right away after looking at the menu outside. The three of us got the Diana's breakfast - two eggs however you like them with hummus, tabouli and pita on the side. Not a huge lover of tabouli, I got my poached eggs with babaganous and hummus instead. Jodi and Lindsey got their eggs scrambled and we all pretty much joined the clean plate club. You might think that the egg and dip combo was a bit weird, but I didn't really mix them together. I ate my eggs first (breakfast) and then the babaganous and hummus with the pita after (lunch). The perfect brunch. I left satisfied, not too full and not hungry at all and didn't even need a snack until we walked past the Doughnut Plant on our way to the Hester Street Fair. You can't pass the Doughnut Plant and not get one, so we got two and enjoyed every last bite. Highly suggest the coconut and the vanilla bean jelly filled along with the five I tried here.
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