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Claire's at the Long Beach Museum of Art is a lovely place for groups. The last time I visited was three years ago when we were hunting for a wedding venue. I loved this place, but it was going through renovations at the time, and it was questionable whether all 5,983,762 guests of Mr. Monkey's father would fit.
I woke up with a great cafe au lait ($2). Yay for illy!
We started with the Museum Work of Art ($18), comprised of fiesta flautas, calamari fritti, bruschetta, and mini spinach artichoke dip. Pretty standard fare, but enjoyable nonetheless.
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One person actually picked up the dip-filled bread bowl and ate it.
Stay classy, 10Years!
Young_Love's crème brûlée French toast ($13) with apples, pecans, golden raisins, and real maple syrup looked scrumptious. I kind of wish I'd sampled some before the server cleared her unfinished dish.
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Here's Fitty's shrimp omelet ($13) with avocado, tomato, and sour cream.
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ssinca had the spinach scramble ($9) with tomato and feta cheese.
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I chose the Eggstravaganza ($12) with ham, bacon, sausage, spinach, onion, tomato, bell pepper, feta cheese, and avocado. Lots of stuff, to say the least.
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You'd think that an omelet with all these fresh ingredients would be chock-full of flavor, but no. Bland City. Alas. I doused it with Tabasco. Problem solved.
Everyone else's dishes were too far to photograph, but you get the general idea.
No gathering with these girls is complete without treats!
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Dip-Filled-Bread-Bowl-Eater made these beauties.
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Wan-nabe made these especially for me. You can see her process here.
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I love Wan so much for always remembering. Thank you! Thank you!
Behold the Brunch Bunch.
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One last goofy one I took before we left.
We miss you, ssinca! So good to see all of you!
I love Claire's! This is the perfect venue - for friends and weddings :)
ReplyDeleteI wish it was sunny here. And warmer.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about you- but I'm glad we took that last goofy picture. WAY cute!
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Great tittle to this post btw. I <3.
Fabulous view on a gorgeous day. Especially since it's been raining like sheets.
ReplyDeleteThe goodies look amazing. That's uber sweet of Wan to remember.
We really lucked out with that weather! :-) Beautiful day, awesome company.
ReplyDeleteHi WeezerMonkey! I have been a lurker on your blog and am finally outing myself. I use to be on the knot boards while planning my wedding. I kind of stopped going on there about a year after the wedding due to being layed. Which left me without constant computer access. I found a link for your blog on Wan's blog. You are the ultimate foodie with great writing and photography skills! Your blog ROCKS and I love that you love Weezer and Monkeys!!! Ok, now I sound like a stalker. But I'm not. You can check out my knot bio under Monkees_Meow. The pictures got all small, I don't know why. I look forward to reading all about your adventures in Monkeyland!!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Yahpee. That last pic is fun and I like it. Such beautiful weather and great location for brunch that day. Even better company and treats were icing on the cake. :)
ReplyDelete10yrs is my kinda girl!!
ReplyDeleteis that Kay and R in the pic? Jealous!
haha love all the pics, looks so tasty. mmmmm.
ReplyDeleteSo sad I missed it! That last pic is fantastic.
ReplyDeleteThat does sound delightful...and damn you for actually taking pictures while I'm left with a stupid 2-paragraph description of a nice GTG. Must.bring.camera.to.all.events.
ReplyDeleteOnly in southern CA can we have brunch outdoors like this! I am so happy we got a chance to see our Lithuanian girl while she was here, and it was awesome seeing some of my favorite girls before we kiss 2008 goodbye. Thanks for the photos!
ReplyDeletebwahahahaha - love the title of the post!
ReplyDeleteit was so nice to see everyone!
such a fun brunch - it was wonderful to see everyone, and it gave me the perfect opportunity to make some goodies :) the hub thanks you for your chocolate allergy, btw - he digs the PB truffles vs. the candy cane ones.
ReplyDeleteFun! The last pic is too cute!
ReplyDeleteso sad i missed this. instead, i was circling LAX. and watching a friend buy lots of ribbon.
ReplyDeletei'm impressed at dip eater. both at her dip eating and baking-ish skills.
The title is hilarious!! I miss ya too ssinca :(
ReplyDeleteThe pictures are too cute of all of you gorgeous ladies.
The last one is so cute and funny.
ReplyDeleteso cute - all of you.
ReplyDeleteman, i missed a lot of all your goin' ons. damn facebook, easier to visit my facebook then to visit my favorite bloggers. but my new rez is clean up my google reader.
ReplyDeletebtw, i am living through you and all the places you dine, gosh, i can't remember the last time the hubs and i went to eat at a nice place, but this is the life i chose so i ain't complaining.
i'm sad i didn't get to hang out with you girls. the food looks amazing. and we know the company was good times. fun afternoon :)
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