Balans
If there’s a better brunch spot on Lincoln Road, I don’t know it, and I know the Road, well, like I know my face. Like the four (count ‘em) eateries across the pond (Balans is British, dig?), the joint jumps from breakfast to late dinner, but it’s on Sunday when things go absolutely nuts. Clubbers crawling in for their very potent Bloody Marys, locals leashed to their designer pets, and just about any beachie who digs running into everyone they’ve every met anywhere. The food’s dynamite too, be it the breakfast burrito, the salmon royale, or the classic brunch-time Benedict, and not one dish will force you to refinance your life. Word is a Brickell Balans will open in September, and a Balans Biscayne will make it a trio in early ’09, till then I’ve got this Lincoln Road dig–and so do you.
