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Sunday Indulgences Brunch, as you like it

erhaps what you in 2006 for brunch “with a require on a Sunday rambunctious brood,” noting morning is dim light that “your kids will find and hushed voices, plenty of pint-sized company Pbut you’ll get over it. If what at this brunch extravaganza, you want instead is a sense of where children under five eat gaiety, festivity, and well- free and the six-to-twelve set being, go to an establishment gets half o≠.” whose stated mission is to A larger-than-life sculpture provide these things, and of Henrietta herself—a jolly which does so amply: go to pig—greets you at the en- brunch at UpStairs on the trance. You’ll find oysters on Square (91 Winthrop Street, the half shell and ; Cambridge; 617-864-1933; salmon and other smoked www.upstairsonthesquare.- fishes; cheeses, pâtés, and com; 10 a.m.-3 p.m.). You order terrines; a roast meat of the o≠ the menu: perhaps that day; hot fish, meat, and poul- standby of brunches, eggs try entrées with side dishes; Benedict, here with pancetta omelettes; wa±es; and vari- and tarragon hollandaise ous desserts. ($14), perhaps tagliatelle The bustles. You with “crab fondue,” toma- may alternatively take your toes, brioche, and hollandaise nourishment outdoors, in the ($18). And by all means, have hotel courtyard under um- a mimosa. That will help. brellas on Henrietta’s Porch. Formerly UpStairs at the Lauded as well for “best Pudding, this cheerful enter- brunch” in recent years by prise now occupies what was several protectors of the pub- once the Pi Eta, an all-male lic tastebuds is that longtime social club. The restaurant’s solid citizen of local dining, décor is exuberantly whimsi- Harvest (44 Brattle Street, cal, and many patrons get a Cambridge; 617-868-2255; charge out of the look of the www.harvestcambridge.com; place, but you can eat your 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.). “The brunch alfresco if you prefer Outside at brunch spot of choice for and nature smiles. Winthrop Cambridge cognoscenti,” de- Street has recently been given to pedestri- fixed in my mind at age 19, so how inter- clared Travel & Leisure. The interior of the ans and sidewalk diners during most esting to see them at 45!” restaurant is done in earth tones with pas- hours of the day. If you or yours have stomachs of the bot- toral art, soothing and elegant on a Sun- “We always have the Harvard Kroko- tomless-pit variety, you could do no better day morning. The Garden Terrace out- diloes come around 1 p.m. to sing to our than to go to Henrietta’s Table (One Ben- doors, shaded by linden trees, is agreeable brunch guests, and we have done so for 26 nett Street, Cambridge, in the Charles on a fine day. The menu is a three-course, years,” says co-owner Mary-Catherine Hotel; 617-661-5005; www.henriettas- prix-fixe a≠air at $33. Among the appetiz- Diebel. “In fact, it was fun to have all of table.com; noon-3 p.m.) for an all-you-can- ers is a tasty goat-cheese tart. Entrées them come to brunch at their sixtieth an- eat bu≠et ($42 per adult). Magazine range from poached eggs and corned-beef niversary two years ago. They’re always designated Henrietta’s as “Best of Boston” hash to a grilled shrimp BLT club. For

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dessert, have a Key lime semifreddo (a word legalseafoods.com; 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.) for a round grill, where the grill master cooks you know; you are a cognoscente), or per- , goat cheese, and chive omelette them for you. At brunch, management haps a fruit cobbler. A brunch very worth ($17.95), washed down with a “Legal Red augments the usual market with break- your while. Tide,” a bloody mary made with tequila fast items to go into oversized omelettes Ah, but you are visiting Cambridge from and a cocktail shrimp ($7.75). You may eat or gigantic pancakes. The process has en- an interior homeland and crave New Eng- outdoors and wave at the folks on Henri- tertainment value, and if the result of land from a noted source. Go back etta’s Porch across the courtyard. your selections disappoints you, you have to the Charles Hotel courtyard and find a Casablanca (40 Brattle Street, Cam- mostly yourself to blame. How could you branch of (20 University bridge; 617-876-0999; www.casablanca- have thought to put shrimp and blueber- Road, Cambridge; 617-491-9400; www.- restaurant.com; 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.) plays on ries into a pancake? The price is right: and on, with its Humphrey Bogart & Co. $13.95 for unlimited trips to the grill. The Garden Terrace at Harvest eponymous décor and very good food, often of a Mediterranean persuasion. Venturing outside the halo of Harvard How about scrambled eggs with the Square, you might choose Changsho (1712 flavorful cured meat called basturma ($11)? Avenue, Cambridge, a bit Or flat bread with roast pears and blue beyond the Law School; 617-547-6565; cheese ($11)? Or grilled shrimp and fried www.lotuscuisine.com; 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.) plantains ($13)? Or duck hash ($13)? for a popular bu≠et featuring dim sum (all For an improvisational brunch, step you can eat for $17.95). Changsho is large around the corner to FiRE+iCE (50 and attractive, and the TV show Phantom Church Street, Cambridge; 617-547-9007; Gourmet has designated it “incredibly www.fire-ice.com; 10 a.m.-2 p.m.). The clean”—in fact, brags Changsho, “the modus operandi here is to go to the cleanest restaurant in Massachusetts.” If restaurant’s “market,” select ingredients you crave dim sum in vast variety, involv-

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Chinatown, to the Pearl Restau- find, of course, the www.fourseasons. Henrietta’s Table awaits. rant (9 Tyler Street, Boston; 617-426-4338) “Inferno,” a combust- com; 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.) and expect crowds, a long wait, noise, ing bloody mary, as serves a breakfast communal tables, and satisfaction. well as a three-course bu≠et that costs $38 If you seek good food and a≠ordability prix-fixe menu ($20). for adults and $19 for in simple surroundings, go for longtime fa- The hotel is on the children 3 to 12. You’ll vorite S & S Restaurant in Inman Square, Charles River, and find eggs and bacon less than a mile from Harvard Square (1334 Dante’s patio a≠ords certainly, as well as Cambridge Street, Cambridge; 617-354- pleasant views of the smoked seafood, sal- 0777; www.sandsrestaurant.com; both Boston skyline. ads, fresh fruit, and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.). The Of the multitude cheeses. A luncheon extensive brunch menu lets you comfort of brunch spots menu of light fare yourself with a deli specialty (matzo ball across the river in is also available. The soup, $4.95), or put on the dog (petit filet Boston, here are two HENRIETTA’S TABLE clam is a mignon with poached eggs on potato pan- to consider. At Tremont 647 (647 delicious indictment of most cakes topped with hollandaise, with fresh Tremont Street, in Boston’s playful South dished up in New England, which are li- fruit, a bagel, and cream cheese, $12.95), End; 617-266-4600; www.tremont647.com; brary paste. Both you and your stomach washed down with a spot of Veuve Clic- 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.), management encourages will feel very well treated in this gracious quot ($47.95 a bottle). There’s a takeout patrons to come in their pajamas. (Other place. The big ground-floor windows menu as well. S&S has been in business garb is permitted.) Brunch is à la carte, look out on the verdant Public Garden for almost 90 years—by doing plenty right with such delicacies as “Too Stinky and, at its edge, a statue of the patrician and being friendly about it. Cheeses” ($12), with black-tru±e honey, Wendell Phillips, A.B. 1831, LL.B. 1834, the Many of the items on the S&S menu are jams and jellies, and toast. great orator, abolitionist, and temperance also available at jazz club Ryles (212 The Bristol (200 Boylston Street, in the fighter. He might not have had a mimosa Hampshire Street, Cambridge; 617-876- Four Seasons Hotel, Boston; 617-338-4400; with his brunch. c.r. 9330; www.rylesjazz.com; 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.). Under S&S ownership, Ryles serves brunch and live jazz for those who like their quiche Lorraine ($9.95) with tunes. You can jazz up your tastebuds with a raw oyster swimming in a bloody-mary shot at the nearby East Coast Grill and Raw Bar (1271 Cambridge Street, Cam- bridge; 617-491-6568; www.eastcoast- grill.net; 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.), co-owned by chef and cookbook writer Chris Schlesinger. The place takes Inman Square south of the border. “Amilcar’s” omelette comes packed with avocado, black beans, cheese, and salsa ($8.75), and even the French toast is cornbread crusted ($8.75). Watch out for the banana stu≠ed with smoked pork and homemade “Inner Beauty Hot Sauce” ($6). Muy caliente!!! Do not give to unsupervised children. For a first-rate bu≠et at The Blue Room Leavitt & Peirce (One Kendall Square, Cambridge; 617-494- 9034; www.theblueroom.net), you must Harvard College recap- John Harvard Bookends. book either the 11 a.m. or 1 p.m. seating. The tured in this famous Ter- Antiqued brass over zinc. 7” h x tab is $23 for anyone over 12, $12 for others. centenary map by Edwin J. 4”w x 6”d. Over 5 pounds each. The fare ranges from eggs to octopus salad. Schruers ’28. Painstakingly $150.00 per statuette (plus reproduced on quality $7.00 S&H), $295.00 per You could feast on the desserts alone. “antique” stock (33 5/8” pair (plus $10.00 S&H). At Restaurant Dante (in the Sonesta x 24 1/4”). $39.95 (plus U.S.A. – made and Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, $7.00 S&H), unframed. exclusively designed for Leavitt & Peirce. Cambridge; 617-497-4200; www.restau- a.m. p.m. rantdante.com; 11 -2 ), you will 1316 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 • 617-547-0576

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