TWO restaurants are adding new menus to the current Sunday brunch bonanza. L.A. Cafe combines the best of breakfast with lunch favourites from 11am to 3pm.
Chef Jennifer Migliorelli's romance with the kind of breakfasts that build you up and out thrives with cinnamon pecan sticky buns, homemade granola, pancakes (banana, pecan, pumpkin), french toast made from egg bread, omelettes built for a family and Mexican eggs. All this and bottomless cups for coffee at a la carte prices.
Lan Kwai Fong goes religious every Sunday when the Lord gets praised and the grits get passed at Post 97.
Nichole Garnaut recently introduced the Southern Sustenance Gospel Brunch, complete with fried chicken, greens and gospel oldies, performed by the choir of the International Christian Assembly.
The group sings for 30 minutes at 2pm and 4pm. But eating is non-stop with feasts in two price ranges: Kids $97; adults, $197 (including Bloody Mary or Mimosa) and the lavish lunch for $597, including buffet for two, a bottle of bubbly and jug of OJ. Hours are noon to 6pm. Reservations necessary. Tel: 810-9333. IN the 70s, the name Chablis became synonymous in America with white inexpensive wine. The Gallo brothers from California produced vats for the masses. And a jug of Chablis was a staple in every yuppie refrigerator.
Other wineries saw the niche and jumped on the bandwagon. To this day, Gallo is credited with turning Chablis into a generic word. Michel Laroche and his colleagues in the Chablis region in France are still smarting from the brothers' coup. The Frenchmanwas in Hongkong recently to preside over a tasting of his family's wine at Pacific Wine Cellars. ''The Americans ruined much of the market [for Chablis] in the States,'' said the head of Domaine Laroche, whose vineyards have produced some of the finest wine in France since 1850. ''Americans turned off by the taste of the mass-produced wine associate that taste with all Chablis.''
