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Sunday Brunch at Murano PDF Print E-mail
by Maia Harari   

murano red chandeliers_kathe osborne.jpg I love Brunch, but patience is not exactly my forte. What, me, wait? Yea, right. So the same way I bff'd with doormen at Saturday night clubs, I cultivated relationships with hosts at Sunday brunch spots.

But like my club rat amigos, these brunch "friendships" were tenuous and their ability to skip me to the front of the reservation line often depended on what I was wearing and with whom I was planning to split my pancakes.

But everything changed when I stumbled across Murano. The sleek, all-white facade had intimidated me at first. I couldn't really just walk in there with no reservation and expect them to talk to me, let alone seat me, could I? But I couldn't have been more wrong.

Although the interior is slickly designed, by owners Sandy Sachs and Robin Gans, with padded, white leather banquettes and a gazillion, as the name suggests, single-tier, Murano crystal chandeliers, the Sunday atmosphere manages to remain casual with the wait staff clad in jeans and relaxing jazz music emanating from the speakers.

Brioche Bread Pudding
Brioche Bread Pudding
The brunch menu is equal parts breakfast and lunch with some of Murano's more signature Italian-French dinner items available. The parmesan risotto fries are out of control and I definitely recommend all the pastas that are hand made fresh daily by Executive Chef Kristi Ritchey.

I love the Vanilla Oatmeal Brulee with Bananas, which is oatmeal, so it's healthy (right?), but even by my standards is very rich so I'd order it as a "one for the table" and not as a main course.

The pancakes are a little dry so if you want breakfast, stick to eggs. I had what might be the best omelet I've ever had with bacon and gruyere and killed a few (but who's counting?) Murano Mary's, their signature bloody mary infused with deliciousness and adorned with garlic fried basil.

Is it Sunday yet?

Murano
9010 Melrose Avenue (at Almont)
West Hollywood, CA 90069
310-246-9118

Brunch:
Sunday, 11am-3pm

Happy Hour:
Tues-Sat 5:30-7:30pm

Dinner hours:
Tues-Thurs 6-10pm
Fri-Sat 6-11pm


http://murano9010.com/

 

Maia Harari is a writer and choreographer. Her most recent credits include It's All in Your Head, 2003 and Danse Macabre, 2000, and she is currently working on Confetti, an episodic internet series chronicling the lives of twenty-somethings running wild in LA. She works at Spyglass Entertainment and lives in Los Angeles.

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laurac1964
April 08, 2008

Loved this story. Just one more reason I want to be your BFF!

foodmakesmehappy
April 09, 2008

I have to go try it out,
I love bread pudding, when I was a student,
I can even drive all the way down to SD for my favorite bread pudding,
Now I'm just overload with work...
Arghhh I want bread pudding!


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