Sweep away your worries
Brunch – even the word is relaxed, a collapsing of breakfast and lunch into a something less urgent than breaking a fast, and lighter than a luncheon.
And that was the original idea. The word was coined by British writer Guy Beringer in an 1895 essay entitled Brunch: A Plea, published in Hunter’s Weekly. In it, he wrote: “Brunch is cheerful, sociable and inciting. It is talk-compelling. It puts you in a good temper, it makes you satisfied with yourself and your fellow beings, it sweeps away the worries and cobwebs of the week.”
Brunch at Spanish Restaurant Tapas Bar Mayfair
Beringer’s vision was for a later, meal than breakfast and a lighter meal than Sunday lunch especially for ‘Saturday night’ carousers. It often included ‘hair of the dog’ cocktails like mimosas, bloody marys and bellinis. In Italy it’s known as colzano – a compound of calazione (breakfast) and pranzo (lunch). In Spain, it is desayuna-almuerzo.
Here at El Pirata we like to think of brunch as a socially relaxed and indulgent affair that fits in with modern lifestyles – flexible enough for those who are intermittent fasting, and filling enough for those who aren’t.
It’s a convivial meal, so our ‘bottomless sangria’ Saturday brunch menu is for a minimum two people. Apart from the Sangria, it includes seven tapas including favourites like marinated cod cheeks, chorizo and quail egg mini bun and pan fried chicken in white wine garlic, chilli and olive oil. If you want to push the boat out, you can add a glass of Cava at £8 per person or an Aperol Spritz at £9.
So come for brunch on a Saturday between 12 and 3pm, and ‘sweep away the worries and cobwebs of the week’ for a mere £57 per person.
