What would you expect a "bottomless brunch" to be?

[ImFree2doasiwant]

Girly weekend away, bottomless brunch suggested, at around £20 per head. All agreed. Ended up being £12 more.

What would you expect from it?

Intrigueddotcom - yes at some place you can pay more (same way you can easily get many chain hotels under £50pn but a luxuary hotel is more but that doesnt mean because one charges £150pn that a £50pn room suddenly doesnt exist) but 'almost all' where £20-£25 and alcoholic (non where non-alcoholic).

Not sure why you quoted that as it made my point very clearly that you can easily get an alcoholic brunch for £20-£25 and I was comment to the others that said you can't get an alcohol brunch for £20.

Or bottomless = you’re going commando

Are we ever going to find out what the op got? @ImFree2doasiwant

@BarbaraofSeville :
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well don't leave us hanging!

which incidentally I have ALWAYS been after a bottomless brunch ...
Maybe it was today and the OP is currently asleep in the flowerbeds..

Unlimited food and one glass of prosecco.

Tacky. I would expect it to be tacky. Cheap food, cheap booze, people vomiting and falling over before lunchtime.

Bottomless brunch in the UK usually consists of a choice of meal (things like poached eggs/eggs benedict type of fayre) and unlimited alcohol for two hours. The one at our local offers the choice of bottomless prossecco or cocktails, and the cocktail one is £32.

Goodness! Unclench!

I've never done a bottomless brunch before lunch and I've never thrown up at one or after one!

Whenever I've had it, one meal (waffles, French toast, eggs and avocado on toast or whatever) and then unlimited prosecco for 90 min to 2 hours (but in my experience you get your prosecco when they come round to top you up so you can't just go wild and down 2 bottles in that time).

It depends on where you live. In London, that's probably not going to get you unlimited alcohol - that would be closer to the £50 mark.

Umm, I've been too eleventy billion brunches, and I can say I've never seen anyone drunk or falling over - Wetherspoons on the other hand...

All you can eat brunch with unlimited prosecco. Or maybe just the prosecco is bottomless.

Which sort of restaurants do you normally go to then?

As I wrote above, the bottomless brunches at Roka are excellent.

Overpriced and with the participants closing to go commando.

In Summer, I'd rather take some picnic hampers with yummy food and decent quality prosecco to a park or garden.

The only Bottomless Brunch near us does one meal/dish with unlimited prosecco for 90 minutes. I think you can pay a premium for other drinks but even then there is a limit (maybe 2 or 3 different cocktails, not the whole cocktail menu).

Definitely wouldn't expect all you can eat. Just one dish off a simple brunch menu .

Brunch/breakfast and free tea/coffee refills.

I’ve usually paid £30 -£35 for a brunch usually a meal with unlimited alcohol sometimes it’s extra for cocktails or extra sides to pump the cost up . I did have one that was hardly any food but loads of cocktails for 90 mins.
tbh I’d not part with any money till I know what I was getting never assume is my motto as they all vary .

Posh cooked breakfast (eggs benedict, salmon, fritatta, full english etc) and unlimited beverages be they soft or alcohol.

Yes, I came on to say that I’m surprised so many people are saying it’s unlimited alcohol but not unlimited food. From a business point of view, I think there’s an enormous mark up on alcohol, and people don’t get full on it, so I would have thought if it’s unlimited alcohol, there has to be a catch, like it’s watered down or something.

No such thing as a free lunch/brunch/booze-up!

@AnotherTroyforHertoBurn you have the coolest username ever!

I have been to a couple of these in London at sea containers and similar - it was one plate of food (all breakfast food basically avocado and eggs etc) and unlimited Prosecco for 2 hours - they topped us up constantly! I ended up out til 1am and fell asleep on train home. So I don’t go to them anymore.

I don't get these posters are surprised it's unlimited booze. It's literally what it is. They are in loads of pubs and bars etc up and down the country

The meaning has changed in the last ten years. It used to be unlimited ( low quality) food and drink. Now that breakfasts are posher and more varied in the UK and there is the excuse of the obesity crisis, it means one breakfast dish ( sometimes with a small side) and unlimited cheap plonk.

Not here. I’ve never heard of such a thing.

But if you think about how much you can actually drink in 90 mins - even one bottle of Prosecco is a lot to get through in that time so if you charge someone £20 for “unlimited” booze for what you’ve bought at £3 cost price that’s a great mark up

Small brunch type plate that you can pay a fee to upgrade to a proper type meal but all of the party have to pay. Unlimited drinks, usually Prosecco, beer, selected cocktails for 1.5 - 2 hours.