The Hangover Cure

There is nothing worse than a hangover. Yesterday, I woke up feeling not so hot. Water, water, and water is part of the two part process I use to get over it, the other part is brunch. When I am hungover I try to eat as hearty as possible. Serious filling food. I woke up with Roberta's in mind.  

Roberta's is legend in Bushwick and beyond for its out of control totally local gourmet pizzas and outstanding fried chicken voted by Time Out New York as the best in the city. I love it for it's brunch, but to be honest I just really love brunch. It is my favorite meal ever.  

The exterior of Roberta's is totally unassuming. You would totally walk by it and think it was a abandoned warehouse not knowing about the magic that lies within.

We sit down and order up a couple cups of their amazing Stumptown coffee and freshly squeezed orange juice.  

I contemplate keeping my sunglasses on. I also consider getting their breakfast pizza. It's a regular pizza, but it has an egg on it so I call it a breakfast pizza. I really like things that have random eggs thrown in. I even throw an egg in my leftover Thai food just for fun. However, their pizzas are kind of large and Mark doesn't believe in pizza for breakfast, so I would have had no choice but to eat the whole thing. I still ended up eating lots more than I should have. We really get down with our ordering. 

We split a Buttermilk Biscuit with honey butter (we really like biscuits) and Ricotta Pancakes with brown butter, maple syrup, and pears. Then Mark individually got Benton's Bacon, Egg, and Cheese on a buttermilk biscuit of course, while I got the Soft Scrambled Eggs with hen of the woods mushrooms, taleggio, and grilled bread. It was really a lot of food, but we reasoned we needed to get that alcohol soaked up. 

 
Oops! I ate a lot of the biscuit--that honey butter is out of control. The biscuit is so savory and the sweetness of the honey butter is so right. It was as good as a magic carpet ride. A whole new world indeed!

I never imagined a pancake could be so soft. There was definitely a cheese flavor to them that went along so beautifully with the maple syrup. I am not a pancake person but I think next time I will get them on my own so that I  can be little piggy and not have to share!

 
My eggs were so soft it was like a pate. I loved it. They were nice and salty too. Even better were the mushrooms. Mushrooms are my favorite thing in the world next to eggplant. These mushrooms were meaty and huge. The grilled bread is made out the same dough as the pizza dough. It was so chewy and salty. I love my salt. 

It was the perfect hangover breakfast. I felt immediately better and they only thing that could have made better was nap! xoxo happy nibbling!