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

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

What would you expect from it?

It doesn't depend on how much you eat and drink, it depends on how much you are prepared to pay.

And if you are prepared to pay just under £100 for it, fine. I wouldn't.

Unlimited daytime prosecco and a load of people in an enclosed space with no natural light who start the event with slightly overloud voices, spilled food and wobbling on gold sandals and end it in flushed, single minded mania and carnage.

We did one in London recently for my birthday. £55 a head, three courses plus unlimited cocktails (from an approved list) wine, beer or spirits. You have a 1.5 hour limit for the drinks.
We had a brilliant time!

I'm not from the UK and for me it means all you can eat food buffet (breakfast stuff (English and continental) and light lunch stuff like salads, desserts) and unlimited tea, coffee and juice. Then paying extra for prosecco. This is how most brunch places are.

But I guess it could mean a breakfast plate and then unlimited tea and prosecco.

Bottomless Brunch seems to be young person speak for day drinking! DS will often go for 'brunch' at the weekend at 5pm, which I argue isn't brunch. However young colleagues in their 20's say this is definitely a thing. It a plate of food with unlimited alcohol, normally Prosecco or watered down cocktails.

What was interesting about my last BB - was that the prosecco wasn't the cheapest out there, they may have got a good deal but it was a nice one.

And the cocktails in another place I went to, they were delicious and all made using branded spirits etc.

These are venues where I've eaten out before though and if I felt ripped off e.g. with a BB then I might or might not return for dinner.

In fact, the previous place I went to with the prosecco I turned up and the venue was closed, I had to ring them and someone had obviously overslept or forgotten but they got themselves there ASAP (they'd taken a deposit from me before too) and they weren't that apologetic (beyond standard) but did serve nice food and on time. There the desert was a brownie with ice cream and sauce but as we'd had something sweet before one of the women took the brownie home in a takeaway box.

A lot of venues like to offer these deals and especially now after Covid as it can guarantee repeat custom and especially as people's belts might be tighter with increasing bills it's good to know you can get a deal and enjoy yourselves.

I am very disappointed by the concept of bottomless brunch. I want the brunch to be bottomless, not the drinks! It should be called "small brunch with bottomless drinks". Rubbish.

At that price I’d expect quite a “stingy” interpretation of bottomless. Maybe that there’s not a strict limit on amounts, but that it’s limited to an hour or so and that you need to keep asking for refills.

It's usually very good value, if you like a drink!

In London a small glass (flute, 125ml) is the best part of a tenner ... absolute a rip off.

Prosecco that is.

@Comedycook I was horrified when I found out it was the drink that was unlimited! V clever imo, as how many people can really just drink loads in the middle of the day/morning? I have to drive my car at some point every day! Plus I'd much rather have loads of croissants or something!

Why would you be standing up .

Bottomless brunch to me is always one or two options on the menu and then unlimited Prosecco.

Brunch is definitely different abroad. In Dubai it’s very much all you can eat. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an all you can eat buffet in the UK for brunch.

I wonder if OP thought it was all you can eat, and it wasn’t, and the extra £12 was for the Prosecco option.

This is what I would think, and then bottomless prosecco/very low alcohol cocktails

I'd pay £32 for the meal part of it and happy to pay much more again for unlimited drinks though prosecco is minging so I'd want a nice house champagne.

I went to unltd brunch in Hong Kong once. It was brilliant. Unlimited fabulous food and champagne.

I wouldn't expect much for £32 OP

I would expect it to be shit. They always are.

We used to go with friends to the brunch at Roka, in London, and it was always excellent.

You ordered one main course, and then could have as much as you liked from the buffet, and there was no limit on wine.

They did serve you each glass themselves so the pacing was controlled, but it was always a really nice experience.

Im shocked by how many people are confusing bottomless brunch with a breakfast buffet and it makes me wonder how many baffled loons who booked the wrong thing the staff must have to regularly deal with.

If it was a breakfast buffet (unlimited food, tea, coffee and juice) then they would just call it a breakfast buffet.

As for people saying you wouldn't get alcohol for £20 of course you would... I looked at dozens of these for the hen do last month and almost all where £20-£25 and alcoholic.

I actually struggled to find some with soft drink options for the non drinkers and no did tea/coffee/juice as an option.

For those saying your shocked people would drink at 11am to 4pm then maybe go for afternoon tea instead (but be careful some of those are alcoholic too).

@mam0918

”almost all”

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The best bottomless brunch I have had is described as pate's, smoked fish platters, several kinds of caviar, crabs, oysters, cheeses, artisan breads, blini, many salads, and artistic little plates of imaginative appetizer combinations...for starters.
Unlimited glasses of champagne and orange juice served at your table to wash it all down.
Follow this with soups, leg of lamb, prime rib, beef medallions, stuffed chicken, salmon, scallops, tortellini, and more.
Choice of breakfast foods, including crepes and dim sum.
And the grand finale, a beautiful display of desserts: tarts, cakes, candies, mousses, puddings, etc.
Unfortunately I don't think this hotel have reinstated the option since Covid but, previously, I think I paid $80.I don't remember having a time limit either.

Usually it's a brunch main course, plus unlimited prosecco - unless otherwise spelled out eg you can get aperol spritz versions.

Brunch is a late breakfast or early lunch, so I would expect a ‘all you can eat’ type meal consisting of cooked breakfast, or bacon or sausage sarnies etc. Brunch for me wouldn’t involve alcohol.

However, reading this thread made me realise how mis-informed I am.

Bottomless = nowhere to put your bottom?