played with two of my best best friends in the whole wide world

{rob & brian}

annoyed rob & brian with a zillion million pictures...

celebrated rob's birthday!

found the perfect restaurant for week 9

{just kidding... that's not it}

saw pretty art deco

walked by the south beach wine & food festival

... saw emeril at a distance

took a pic for one of my fave blogs

made the customary trek to la sandwicherie

tried calamari for the first time

{and sorta liked it}

at this week's new restaurant

also...

got burnt

{darn sun!}

listened to regina spektor and lady gaga and death cab on the beach

saw dear john when it rained

went to a few awesome yoga classes

ahh how nice it was to get a bit of sun in the winter...

xoxo

yeh

ohhhh k! so. let's talk some about

boston

see, to me, a weekend visit to boston means:

-seeing old friends

-strolling on

newbury stree

(with a definite visit to the marc jacobs store)

-perhaps exploring cambridge

-a sit with a chocolate sandwich cookie at cambridge's

hi rise bread company

-and maybe a nun chuck lesson?

but to the boys,

a weekend visit to boston means one thing:

get. wasted.

as in,

wake up,

and even before breakfast,

be very very drunk.

{even if the only cups left are measuring cups}

it's like a tradition for them.

it's ridiculous.

don't even get me started.

anyways,

naturally my restaurant for this week was going to be in boston,

but i faced a challenge:

i needed a restaurant that would be interesting and tasty and boston-y,

but

it would also need to appeal to some very drunk or very hungover boys.

anything that took traveling to the opposite side of the city for?

ummm no.

any posh seafood restaurants?

not a chance.

the greasy four dollar cheeseburgers they all craved?

bored. so bored.

so with the help of former bostoner

, i found it:

zaftigs

walking distance from friend trent's,

not too expensive,

voted

best breakfast in boston

and a perfectly acceptable place to nurse a hangover.

there it is.

we arrived on sunday at typical brunch hour,

ready to wait

{because what fabulous sunday brunch doesn't have a severely long wait?}

oh but wait we did...

for almost

TWO

hours.

good thing there were fun mural people for brian and i to play with...

and to pick the noses of.

teehee.

luckily the wait gave me enough time to decide what i wanted.

and,

because there were too many ridiculous menu items that i couldn't pass up,

i also decided what friends kyle and trent would want too.

for me:

the challah french toast.

{holla!!!}

when,

by complete chance,

i happened upon a girl from my

high school english class

on the walk to zaftigs,

she recommended it,

and i was all, damn, this is a

sign

and then about six more people told me i should get it.

so i did.

and it was, to quote miss erin who also got french toast,

cake for breakfast!!

i mean, i'll take that any day.

i also felt weird about going to a jewish deli and not having a potater pancake.

which,

by the way,

is there a difference between a latke and a potato pancake?

it was ok.

it was at least crispy enough.

friends matt, erin, and becca had

a monstrous breakfast sandwich,

bananer

french toast, and a

salmon

burger

and...

for kyle:

the raphel

roast turkey, stuffing,

cranberry

and

apricot

chutney, mashed potatoes, and gravy

atop toasted challah.

think: the gobbler at the

millburn deli

in jersey.

except with mashed potatoes,

that in my opinion,

took away its rights to be a sammich.

might as well have just had thanksgiving.

oops.

for mr. trent:

the lupo

brisket sandwiched between two potater pancakes

with gravy and horseradish

it was a good thing that trent was willing to order this,

because if he hadn't

i would have had a major problem.

i mean,

what self respecting person that likes to blog about food sees this on a menu and doesn't taste it?

i was a bit confused when it came out though,

talking about,

are you supposed to pick it up and eat it like a sandwich?

or is it just too messy for that?

trent opted for the fork approach,

and so did i.

it was good, pretty good.

a+ for creativity.

joe got an omelet.

:-)

zaftigs was an all day affair.

we were there basically until the early evening.

and it almost bordered on

this severely long typical sunday brunch wait being almost too severely long.

i was satisfied with my toast.

but i'd like to spiel about traditional american breakfast places some:

there seems to be a commonality about em that is a plateau.

because,

really,

how many ways are there to omelet an egg?

or flip a pancake?

or iron a waffle?

don't get me wrong,

it's good food.

but i've never had, and really can't imagine an out of this WORLD brunch.

{black label burger of brunches, do you exist?}

it seems that when it comes to breakfast,

it's either solid,

or a stale bagel.

i'm truly equally satisfied with a

telepan

prix fixe ordeal,

an egg mcmuffin,

or a zaftig's seven hour affair.

what i'm saying is,

zaftigs was very good...

but unless i crave the brisket + latke combo,

and unless i have a whole day to spare,

i'll focus on my next

restaurants, thankyouverymuch.

xoxo

yeh

zaftig's delicatessen

is located just outside of boston, in brookline.

joe+kyle don't remember a thing.

bánh mìzzle

miami

week 4: zaftigs

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