Essex Restaurant

Essex Restaurant

120 Essex Street, NY, NY

http://www.essexnyc.com/

Saturday December 9, 2014

            For once, I ventured outside of my brunch comfort zone of Brooklyn, into the lower east side of Manhattan. Having read awesome reviews of Essex, my friends and I were very excited. If coming here be sure to make a reservation, two weeks prior we tried making a reservation for Saturday on a Wednesday and were not so kindly told that no tables were available. Fast forward two weeks later and we finally made it in!

            We had a large party and the staff was very accommodating. We were even allowed to start ordering drinks from the bar while we waited for our whole party to arrive. Once seated our waiter came over almost immediately with a round of Mimosas. With this Brunch you have the option to make it bottomless drinks for $34.99 + tax and the option of Mimosas, Screwdrivers or Bloody Mary’s.  Of course our whole table did bottomless drinks! The mimosas were good, but mostly orange juice, which is fine if the waiter always keeps our glasses full; however, the more crowded the restaurant became the less the waiter came around.

            Unfortunately, I wasn’t impressed with the food menu. The only item that appealed to me was the Manchego Macaroni & Cheese with side of chicken apple sausage and adding lobster for $3. We ended up ordering a bunch of different dishes and sharing them amongst ourselves. Sadly they were out of The Southern dish (biscuit, sausage patties, eggs, sausage gravy) by 12:30pm, a few from my party wanted that dish.

 

Bottomless 3

Food 2.5

Service 3

Overall Experience 3

            Aside from discovering how yummy macaroni and cheese with lobster is, Essex Restaurants bottomless brunch was mediocre and unfortunately, didn’t live up to the hype. 

XOXO,

Brunch Chic