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 .