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| - I was in Pittsburgh for the weekend and had Sunday brunch at Zenith: a place like this simply wouldn't be possible in Brooklyn, due to the higher cost of everything. You sit at communal tables in a homely dining room -- filled with artwork, plants, nick-naks, and light streaming through the windows -- and help yourself to a delicious buffet of vegan salads, featuring ingredients such as macaroni, olives, corn, tomatoes, chickpeas, melons, potato, and pesto. I piled my small plate high. The buffet includes a great selection of freshly made bundt cakes with various creamy frostings. I would've been happy with the buffet alone, but it comes with a made-to-order entree -- I chose the portabello mushroom with sweet potato mash and sampled the scrambled eggs, which were good, but nothing spectacular. All this for just $10. There were some downsides, however. The place was packed out at noon so we had to wait; the staff were running around madly and the entrees took a long time to come out, so the whole experience was rather chaotic. Zenith is definitely worth experiencing, but it's probably not going to be your regular brunch spot simply because of the crowds.
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