What makes something “brunch”? The fact that it’s the meal we call that’s a late breakfast and early lunch? The things we eat; i.e. the eggs benedicts, and stack of waffles? The time? Or is it the first meal we eat on a sunday justify as “brunch”? When I roll out of bed on a tuesday morning at 9:32 and eat half a bag of all dressed chips and chug a glass of apple juice, does that classify as “brunch”? Ever since someone once asked me what were my “favourite brunch foods” have I hated this term and overall concept of “brunch”. Even the sound of it irks me; “You want to brunch?”, “where should we brunch?”, “don’t you just love brunch?”, “I went to this really good brunch place for brunch“, “remember that time when the brunch brunch had brunch in the brunch because of the brunch and the brunch brunch brunch?” WTF is a “brunch food” anyways, guh. [click to continue…]
Happy new year! All the best to all my readers, haters and stalkers, lovers and other strangers. Now that the holiday season is winding down to an end and people are slowly rolling themselves to the gym, back to classes and cold office chairs that smell like the leftover coffee left in your mug from 2 weeks ago, it’s about time we got back on track. What track you ask? The delicious restaurant track where I’m going to show you some amazing spots to eat this year. We’re making big moves here at Shut Up and Eat and I”m excited to share all the up and coming news with you… when the time is right! I’ll give you a clue, it involves some major awesome with some kick-assness thrown in for good luck. So if you’re up to it, join me for the ride, cos it’s going to be a good one. So that being said, I’m going to start the new year with two of my favourite things, noodles… noodles and hot chicks, and wouldn’t you know it, I went to this noodle joint with one of the hottest! [click to continue…]