I have been meaning to post this since Saturday! The new semester has started though, which means I have school every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 5-7:30. With homework every night due the next day. Yeah. That means I am out of the house from 6am until 8pm on each of those days. Wahhh! Anyway, that explains my absence.
So last weekend I had a four day weekend which was needed before kicking off this crazy semester. Saturday morning we decided to head to midtown for brunch. We went to one of our favorite spots, St James Brasserie. It is a really cool old place that used to be a water company so it has it’s own well. Now the well water is used to make their beer.
They have an alsace salad which I absolutely love. It has candied pecans, pickled beets and a magical dressing that contains I don’t know what.
And of COURSE we had to get some oysters. Of course, I can never pass those up.
Brad had the Brasserie Benedict. That man is a sucker for eggs bennie when it’s on a menu. This Benedict has pork belly instead of Canadian bacon, and a chipotle hollandaise. Man heaven.
I got the Burnside burger, which is a made in house veggie burger. They use seasonal roasted veggies and it was, hands down, the best veggie burger I have ever had. The fries are also phenomenal, as is the homemade ketchup. It is spicy and garlicky. Have I told you how much I love ketchup? I want to bathe in it. Plus Brad’s beer and bloody Mary in the back there. We split the beer.
Anyway, stay tuned for more pictures and a recipe from last weekend. And high jinks to come this weekend!
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