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Brunch at Docks in Murray Hill

Posted on October 23, 2011 | Leave a comment

After hearing great reviews about this oyster bar we noticed there was a great brunch deal at Dock’s Oyster Bar: $23 bottomless brunch cocktails and entrée.  I was beyond thrilled to try this Murray hill brunch.

Review:
The ambiance was outrageous.  There was a live jazz band, beautiful bar and lovely cloth table clothes and well-dressed servers.  We arrived just before noon, but once the clock stroke 12 it quickly began to fill up with an older crowd.

Biscuits and Muffins

We were immediately served with a basket of muffins and biscuits.  They were so perfectly moist and sweet that whenever we were down to just one the servers refilled our basket!

The menu looked

Bloody Mary and Mimosa

decent, but what really excited us what the variety of deals (versus the smaller

variety of food). The brunch options here include:

  • $17 for an entrée and choice of mimosa, bloody mary or juice
  • $20 for an entrée and choice of 2 mimosas, bloody mary’s or juice
  • $23 unlimited brunch cocktails with your entrée!

Eggs Benedict

  • The eggs benedict was average – nothing special at all
  • The bennie included poached eggs, Hollandaise sauce with choice of:
    Canadian bacon or Irish smoked salmon.  We had the bacon.

Cajun Omelette

  • Cajun Omelette came with pepper, onion, Andouille and crawfish

Huevos Rancheros

  • Even though these huevos rancheros came with fried eggs, corn tortilla, black beans and tomato chili sauce it still needed extra hot sauce just to add some flavor.  It was fairly bland and definitely not recommended.

Scrambled Eggs, Smoked Salmon Carmelized Onions

  • You can’t really go wrong with this meal, especially at a seafood type restaurant… but the potatoes were a downer.  They were bland and a waste of space on the plate.

Last Call:
We were surprisingly underwhelmed by the food – everything was bland and needed extra salt, pepper or hot sauce.  Perhaps we came on an “off day” because we’ve always heard positive reviews.  Next time, we’ll come for the clambake instead.

Brunch Review: 2 out of 5 mimosas
The Information:
Docks Oyster Bar
633 3rd Avenue (@ 40th St)
New York, NY 10017
212-986-8080
www.docksosterbar.com

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Brunch Fail: East Village Tavern

Posted on February 24, 2011 | 1 Comment

Another day another NYC AYCD brunch. Three-day weekends are mini-vacations made for us career-driven, weekend-warrior, stress cases in New York City. The only way to celebrate is with double brunch!

East Village Tavern for AYCD Brunch

We thought East Village Tavern would answer all of our AYCD brunch prayers

After Saturday’s brunchen escapades at Yerba Buena and post-brunch at Destination Bar, I was feeling great. Then, in my champagne haze I was appointed reservation maker for our Sunday Brunch, party of 10. I called 4 places, and was convinced Virage took my name and number, when we showed up on Sunday it was a no-go. Superfail.

So there we were, 10 of us with no place to brunch! So we opted to head toward brunch heaven, aka East Village and pledged to find something, and there it was, what we thought would be a great choice: East Village Tavern. Superfail # 2.

Review:
Nearly everything about this place failed. From the ice in my mimosa, the mimosas being served in a draft glass, a hair in one of the girl’s drinks. Add on some stale beer scent, super-dive-y atmosphere, little-to-no seating and a terrible server, and you have East Village Tavern.

My Rant: Drinks were almost never filled, the food was decent but very much like “bar food”, small portions. Rather than serving us drinks, the bartender was counting her tips. Which brings me to our waitress: What awful service! She was slow, mean, grumpy, lazy… She even came up, no warning and told us that our AYCD deal has expired (limit to 1 hour.. But who ever really honors that anyway)?? There was a gleam of hope when looking at the menu-there was a decent selection of drinks we could order that is included in brunch. In the fail-fashion of EVT, however, there was no flavored vodka at the bar to make our drinks.  Now the food, it was decent.  Sabra had the pancakes.. they weren’t the greatest.  I had the Veggie Omelet and salad.  It was decent, but it came with cheese even though the menu description

did not include cheese.  Britt had the burger, which she claims was one of the best burgers she has had in a while.  She scarfed that thing down in 2 minutes flat!  The other Court had the Chicken Wrap, but she focused on the sweet potato fries.  And Natalie had the Breakfast Burrito.. which she claims was decent.  Eh.

East Village Tavern Burger: Great Burger, better Sweet Potato Fries

The only reasons we didn’t leave this place:
1. We trekked all the way to Avenue C
2. They served the best sweet potato fries I’ve had in a while (And Britt loved her burger)
3. The music wasn’t that bad

Last call: This brunch experience was simply sub-par. I’d skip this venue and never return. (for Brunch).. but check out the Yelp reviews for other reasons to stop by.

Brunch Review: 1 mimosa

Price:  $15.95 AYCD for 1 hour plus your brunch meal

The Info:
East Village Tavern
158 Avenue C
New York, NY 10009
212-253-8400

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