Brunch holds a sacred position in the meal canon. It also has the status of two meals, as it usually stands in for both breakfast and lunch. Brunch dangles before the bruncher and brunchee a tantalizing sense of what could be, as the entire scheduleless day dances teasingly after the meal. There could be a museum, a movie, a stroll. Brunch is the meal of promise.
Coffee is coffee is coffee.
Coffee is a dialogic form. It carries a clear message that the date-asker is powerful and important, and that romance will take a backseat to work. Unless, of course, the breakfast invitation is conveyed across a pillow as a follow-up to an extraordinarily successful Dinner Date. When the meaning is manifest and you're ready for love, have a meal at one of these romantic restaurants .