Episode 1: Rooster on Grand, and Life Necessitates a Brunch Club

So it seems appropriate that the record of the first brunch of the brunch club is being posted...after the second brunch.  Being on time is for suckers.  Also we just decided today that we actually wanted to do this and write it down, because clearly I don't have enough to do in my life, and maintaining a blog sounded more fun than fixing schedule spreadsheets.

So, December 2017 Brunch:

We went to Rooster on Grand.  Our original plan was to try out Egg, a new place none of us had gone to.  All 3 of us settled decisively on this new thing, until J discovered that because this is St. Louis and people are smart and like to make bank on the weekends, that it was in fact closed on Mondays.  So Rooster became the new plan.  It was close and we were hungry, and...crepes.

Food: J got the brunch burger, a gigantic pile of egg and biscuit-y goodness, because it's December and there's nothing wrong with doing what you know.  I got an egg scramble, with arugula pesto and tomato jam and potatoes, because I am metropolitan and classy (and really I just like anything that has pesto on it and I knew there would be potatoes no matter how things went), and M, because she is good at breakfast, got a savory crepe, which because we're writing this a month late shall be known as "the one with mushrooms and no bacon," and granola.  That's strategy, right there. J got chai, and I got a latte, and M got water because she is good at breakfast but scorns breakfast drinks, or something.  We all probably expressed interest in other things to order next time, but the only one we remember now is that M wants the GLT, which we think involved goat cheese.

Conversation topics included: dismay over the driving habits of our elderly relatives, namely that they were driving at all, Christmas plans, and the creation of the as-of-then not-named brunch club.  Which went down like "brunch is good" "we should see each other more often," "we would like to eat brunch more often", and there you go.  And here we are. We probably talked about other stuff but I've lost my phone 3 times since I've been home today, and it was a 2 hour brunch. The chances of me remembering anything are pretty much zero.  So assume there was something fascinating and worldly in there somewhere.

So there is the first thing.  A post detailing the brunch that actually took place today will be incoming...soon.  And maybe some more official reviews of food, to make this blog look like it has a little more of a point.

Love,

JAM