Every Bar and Restaurant Should Offer Bottomless Mimosas on Weekends
Where I live, and where I travel, one thing I always love is a champagne brunch.
Consider me a product of my environment.
Where I live – the Manhattan and Hermosa Beach area – this is as common as sunshine. As regular as the waves. As expected as the near-weekly beach volleyball tournaments.
It’s almost a given that bars and some restaurants offer discounted or even free champagne or mimosas with breakfast. At Sharkeez and Cafe Boogaloo in Hermosa Beach, you get bottomless mimosas for an hour, for example. It didn’t take long for Patrick Molloy’s, next to Sharkeez on the Hermosa Beach Pier, to take note and create the same deal.
At Fish Bar in Manhattan Beach, each person gets a pitcher of mimosas (that’s one bottle of bubbly) for $11.
The mimosa breakfasts are served Saturdays and Sundays and are particularly popular during the fall for NFL football. It’s a smart move on the part of the bars – bring people in earlier than they would be there normally and then of course once they are there, they are likely to stay and eat and drink once the special expires.
Oh, some people prefer Bloody Marys, and Sharkeez has a make-your-own Bloody Mary bar. But me, make it a mimosa!
When traveling, it’s something I seek out, as well. Finding this in Vegas is easy; just about every hotel buffet offers a champagne brunch on Sunday. They are awesome because you get everything from eggs to sushi and seafood. Even those crab legs you see being caught on Deadliest Catch. They are pricey though, around $60. There’s no time limit, except when they stop serving brunch at about 2 p.m.
In Honolulu, the Royal Hawaiian used to be the killer spot. You would have some mimosas, run and jump in the water off Waikiki Beach, and return to have some more mimosas. Rinse, wash, repeat! That, unfortunately, went away when they re-designed the hotel’s restaurants, even messing somewhat with the Mai Tai bar.
While in Monterey, CA, I discovered that Jack’s Restaurant and Lounge in the Portola Hotel has bottomless mimosas for as long as you like, every day of the week. Its breakfast is $18.95 and that’s kind of pricey except when you add in the mimosas. You do have to be a bit of an early riser to take full advantage of it, for breakfast – and mimosas – are served only until 10:30 a.m.
After that, your best choice is the Sandbar on the Old Fisherman’s Pier (or Municipal Wharf #2, if you prefer), a Sunday spot for the salty sailors. It serves breakfast until 2 p.m., has mimosas and makes a pretty mean Bloody Mary ($7).
But not every city has a Sunday champagne brunch. Try and find one in otherwise lively Toronto. Ask a place if its has bottomless mimosas on Sunday and they look at you as if you’re from Montreal (Canadians’ joke; they will get it, for sure).
Even in New Orleans, although it’s not a big deal there because you’re up all day and night drinking on Bourbon Street and the last thing you want to see in the morning is more alcohol. Still, it would be nice to have that option. (You CAN get a pretty awesome Bloody Mary at Coop’s, across from Margaritaville.)
All places should take the cue of Hermosa and Manhatan Beach (and Jack’s in Monterey) and offer bottomless mimosas for an hour with breakfasts on Saturday and Sunday.
It’s a great way to start the day!
I completely agree. I’ve had a hard time finding that out here in the DC/VA area. It seems like a no-brainer for the bars because they use the cheap $4-5 champagne anyways and it brings in customers to spend money. When you shell out $25-40 for a breakfast buffet, asking the customer to pay $6 per mimosa is a bit much.