Brunch at CIRCA in Clarendon

3010 Clarendon Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22201
(703) 522-3010


Brunch Served:  Saturday and Sundays from 10:30am - 4:00pm
Regular Hours: Monday- Thursday 11:00am-12:00am (midnight); Friday 11:30am - 2:00am Saturday 10:30am- 2:00am Sunday 10:30am -11:00pm


Neighborhood: Clarendon
Nearest Metro Station: Clarendon Station
Brunch Price: Varies
Featured Cocktails:Bloody Mary $9.00
                               Mimosa  $5.00
                         Rise and Shine Martini $9.00
                         The Grandest Mimosa $12.00


Restaurant Website:CIRCA at Clarendon


For the past few months I have passed the building site of CIRCA and wondered what was going to go there. Well, now that it is complete I decided I had to investigate whether or not CIRCA at Clarendon had brunch just like the other two locations.  To my liking I found out that they  do! 

When the brunch club got there  we were pleased to see a very trendy looking restaurant, it was easy to get a seat ( but then again it was 2:00 in the afternoon on a miserably rainy day) 

Very trendy!!

Once we got there we immediately noticed that they did not have a brunch buffet.  Not going to lie I was looking forward to a custom made omelet, but alas they did not have it. Maybe next week the brunch club will find it.  The menu was a combination of breakfast and lunch time selection of food.  It was a little disappointing looking for a more traditional breakfast dish, but we found a few. So note if you would like a traditional breakfast CIRCA at Clarendon may not be the best choice for you. 


The food was very good we all got the Circa American Bistro Breakfast which was 12.00.  The food ranged from $5.50  for a Roasted Butternut Squash soup to $20.00 for Bistro Stake and Eggs.  We thought this was a good range for the food, but the drinks were a little expensive, especially if you want to have more than one.  One of the brunch clubbers got the same dish as me, but with chicken sausage.  I have to say that sausage made the dish really pop! So please if you go for brunch to Circa get the chicken sausage. I promise you will not be disappointed!

Yummy food!

Over all we were impressed with the brunch, but I am not sure if I would go back there anytime soon for brunch. So on a scale from 1 to 10 I would give CIRCA at Clarendon a 6.5. 

For those of you who go to brunch looking for a hangover cure depending on what you order this place may cure it. The food is very good and not greasy, but the ingredients are not overly complicated. 

Stay turned for next week as I continue my search for bottomless mimosa and another buffet brunch!

Sunday Brunch at Liberty Tavern

3195 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201
(703) 465-9360


Brunch Served Sundays from 9:30am - 2:00pm
Regular Hours: Monday- Saturday 11:30am; Sunday 9:30am - 2:00am
Neighborhood: Clarendon
Nearest Metro Station: Clarendon Station
Brunch Price: Adults $19 Children $8
Featured Cocktails:Fresh Fruit Bellini $8 
                               Mimosa made with fresh OJ $4 
                          The Grapefruit Buck with Absolute Ruby Red $6
                          Breakfast Bloody Mary with Brooklyn Lager chaser $5


Restaurant Website: The Liberty Tavern


I have always thought of The Liberty Tavern as a great place to have drinks with friends and grab a snack or dinner at but I never realized that they served brunch on Sundays. Once I found this out I had to investigate what this brunch was like. Would there be mimosas? Would it be expensive? Well here is what I found out...


The price of the brunch was a good price. $19 for all you can eat buffet or A La Carte menu.  The buffet included food such as fruit salad, scrambled eggs, North Country Applewood Smoked Bacon, rice, salmon with lemon caper sauce... you will have to either visit the website or go to brunch to know what the rest are.  Here is a picture of the brunch set-up upstairs. 

The Buffet 
What I loved about this brunch is that every person that gets a buffet brunch gets three pancakes with it. I did not realize this when I was getting my food and a very nice server found me and brought me my pancakes :)  Here  is a picture of my plate... not the usual brunch combination you would see but you can see some of the food they offered from that. 

My very interesting combination for brunch

The one thing that I was a little disappointed about was that they did not have a create your own omelet station. You can get an omelet off the A La Carte menu, but then you would have to pay for the buffet and the omelet. 


The A La Carte menu looked tasty. One of the brunch clubbers decided to get order from the brunch menu. The combinations looked tasty, but not the best if you are hungover like I was. The menu follows Liberty Taverns unique but great combination of food. An example of this would be Maine Lobster Roll, housemade split top roll, cucumber mayonnaise, tarragon, scallion which is $15.  Sounds amazing right?


The drinks prices seemed to be good, but when there are places that included bottomless mimosa for brunch.  If you are looking for a place to start your "Sunday Funday" this may not be the best place to start. The prices are good for drinks, but if you would like to have tons of "fun" there are places in Arlington that have I have heard have bottomless Mimosas.  


*Note Liberty Tavern may not be the best place to get brunch if you are hungover. Let's be honest, when you are hungover you want something fried and potentially unhealthy. Everything at  The Liberty Tavern is healthy and may not help cure your hang over.  


The Arlington Brunch Club rates this brunch a 8 out of 10.  Look job Liberty Tavern!


Stay tuned for next weeks review. Will I find bottomless mimosas in Arlington for brunch??  We shall see...


                            

It's brunch time!

Have you ever noticed that it is hard to find brunch deals online for Arlington or just figure out where to go for one? I know there have been many Sunday mornings ( or Saturdays mornings) that I have been laying around and want to get something to eat, and not just the Ihop  or Silver Dinner down the street, but something really good. Something that can fill my belly and also kill my possible hangover from the night before. (Possibly, with another drink...) So I decided that there needs to be an end to this madness of lack of information. It's time to let people know there are GOOD places to go on this side of the Potomac River. So starting next weekend ( Just so happens to be Valentines weekend) I, Ms. Bean and friends will start the Arlington Brunch Club.  We will search for great deals, food, atmosphere and of course MIMOSAS!!! We will leave no area of Arlington unturned ( okay, okay at least we will try to) I wonder where we will end up?