Rose Water Review: Brunch at Rose Water in Park Slope
Sometimes you go eat at a hyped up neighborhood place, and all you wanna do after, is make like Peggy Olson and strap on the Relaxerciser. You know, because it was so disappointing and you need some satisfaction. Yea you know what I’m talking about, unless you don’t watch Mad Men. That’s ok. I haven’t seen The Wire, and we can’t all be perfect. Neither can Rose Water’s brunch. The thing about brunch is that I’m rarely impressed. Woo, you have french toast and you used challah bread. It’s going to be decently tasting enough. So usually I end up ordering something else… basically anything else on the ‘brunch’ menu that looks like it has lots of fat and could possibly exist on a non-brunch meanu.
But I don’t want to shit on the brunch idea. It’s great really, to wake up late on the weekends and stroll out for a comfortable meal. In the Park Slope area, most of these brunches cost about the same, and some of them include drinks. Rose Water’s brunch comes with a drink, and it’s a $14 dollar brunch. Surprisingly, that’s about the average price around the Slope on 7th ave. A few blocks away, you see places like Sotto Vocce with a $13 dollar brunch, and a fancy place like The Stone Park Cafe with $12 to $16 dollar options. Kind of expensive if you ask me.
As for the food at Rose Water, I got some roast pork sandwich because… it looked fatty and it came with french fries. You can’t go wrong with French Fries in the early afternoon. The roast pork pieces were sliced thin, yet they were still moist. It made for a tasty sandwich, although it’s nothing that I would ever go out of my way for. It’s also nothing to really exclaim about to others. So I’m not really sure why Rose Water is such an institution around Park Slope. I’ve also had Rose Water during Restaurant Week once and meh. For a restaurant that’s located on a really quiet block, I’m surprised it’s been a hit for so long.
Steph had some banana pancakes which were not really that spectacular either. That kind of brings up an interesting thing because sometimes we’ll be at a restaurant and talk about how the food is just meh or average. Then the server comes along and asks, “How are you enjoying your meal?” or something. And what’s a good answer besides, “Good, thanks”? The real answer would be like, “Well hey, I took a couple of bites already and it’s just average, but what are ya gonna do? I’m just nodding and smiling to be polite but otherwise I actually don’t think your restaurant is all that.” Is that too much? I know servers come by to ask in order to let the patrons know they’re there, and they’re not ignoring the patrons. Still… such a pointless question. It’s like when you’re walking down the hall at work and someone gives you that fake smile or a “What’s up” that’s supposed to mean, “hi, let’s agree not to extend the conversation beyond what’s up.” At least at work you could just pretend you’re looking at your cell phone as you walk and can plausibly deny you saw the other person walking down the hall. At a restaurant, what do you do? Stare into space and pretend the server didn’t ask the question? Or pretend you really don’t want to say what you want to say?
Rose Water787 Union St.Brooklyn, NY 11215718-783-3800
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