Sunday brunch in the neighbourhood with the bf and thought we'd try out the new Brooklyn Tavern as it looked "welcoming". As always, checked online for their menu which consisted of an "all day" menu and a brunch menu.
The restaurant wasn't that busy and we were seated right away. The server was super friendly. What we first learned however, was that they were only serving the brunch side of the menu... Don't understand how they could call the other side an "all day" menu... And, the server appeared to try quite hard at remembering the order and not writing it down...
We both ordered the steak and eggs with fries ($15 each). I got rare with over easy and he got medium rare with scrambled. I received medium rare with sunny side up and he received medium rare with scrambled. I'm sure they would've fixed their mistake, but I was okay with sunny side up (and I'm pretty sure you couldn't cook that steak any other way...). To my surprise, it did not come with any sort of bread...this is a first for me. So we ordered the side of sourdough bread ($3 for 4 half pieces of toast). It took forever and the nice server kept coming over to explain the long process of heating up and buttering bread. The bread was too toasty.
The ambiance was nice, the servers were friendly, but sadly, the food was just, "meh." I found the sunny side up egg and rather expensive side of toast to be over done. The steak was extra chewy but I wasn't expecting a filet mignon.
Next brunch date - somewhere else, there are many options in the neighbourhood and this one, unfortunately, didn't make the cut.