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Our one-dozen favorite Sunday brunches

Need an excuse to eat a three-hour meal on a weekend morning? As if

Metromix
January 19, 2008

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We heart Morning Edition, even if they don't heart us back. (Credit: Molly V. Strzelecki)

Breakfast is so early, lunch is so work day. When you just need something in between, do brunch. Here are our 12 favorite excuses for when nothing but brunch will fit the bill.

Blue Moon Café and Coffee House

1621 Aliceanna St., Baltimore

410-522-3940

When you just have to have some scrapple and something haute-comfort like gooey cinnamon buns. Just expect to wait.

City Cafe

1001 Cathedral St., Baltimore

410-539-4252

City Cafe's specialty coffees might be a little pricey, but pair one with something from the brunch menu and you'll be happy you did. Can we recommend thick-sliced ham and potato pancakes?

Eggspectation

6010 University Blvd., Ellicott City

410-750-3115

You don't have to crave eggs to brunch here, but it helps (the menu includes everything from egg-chiladas to a waffle Benedict). If all things oviform aren't your cup of tea, try the crepes or French toast. And if you're looking for an excuse to up your daily fruit intake, the juices include honey blueberry and banango.

Gertrude's

10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore

410-889-3399

You need more than just brunch. You need culture and sophistication. You need fine works of art and priceless masterpieces. You need a sculpture garden with fountains. You need Gertrude's.

Golden West Café

1105 W. 36th St., Baltimore

410-889-8891

Hipster's need brunch too. Thank goodness, then, for Golden West's all-day every-day selection of Tex-Mex and vegan breakfast foods.

Little Havana Restaurante y Cantina

1325A Key Highway, Baltimore

410-837-9903

We never needed a reason to partake in pitchers of bloody Marys while sitting outside on a deck overlooking the Harbor, but Little Havana gives us one. Be prepared to spot-stalk in the parking lot.

Miss Shirley's

513 W. Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore

410-889-5272

When we're in the mood to run into one or several people we know on a Sunday morning, we usually head over to Shirley's. The service and the wait might leave a bad taste in our mouths, but the crab and fried green tomato eggs Benedict and grilled breakfast kabob do not.

Morning Edition Cafe

153 N. Patterson Park Ave., Baltimore

410-732-5133

This is where to go when you have three hours to kill and can't think of a better way to do it than by sitting in a Vermont-style cafe nibbling delicious muffins while waiting on a custom omelet that takes ages to prepare. Good thing you can keep ordering Chambord mimosas.

One World Cafe

100 W. University Parkway, Baltimore

410-235-5777

Vegans need brunch, too. And for that reason, we always head to One World when we have a vegan who needs entertaining. Organic blue corn cakes, vegan pancakes with soy margarine and the tofu scrambler help seal the deal.

Red Star

906 S. Wolfe St., Baltimore

410-675-0212

True, Mom might not be so proud when she hears you're eating burgers for what is a essentially breakfast, but Red Star's good burger (the restaurant's name, not ours) is difficult to resist no matter what time it is. Perhaps the farmer's frittata or the Baltimore crab hash are more appropriate brunch options.