Brunch and Bowling

On work days, most Germans devote at least 30 minutes to their Tee (tea) and Semmeln (rolls). If not the most important meal of the day, breakfast is probably the meal Germans seem to take the most seriously. Consisting of delicious rolls, flaky chocolate filled croissants, melted-cheese coved pretzels, lean meats, strong tasting cheeses, creamy nutella and sweet Marmalade (jam), with a Deutsche breakfast you just can't go wrong:

Frühstück at the Werner's
(German breakfasts make rising early totally worth it!)

However, when it comes to Sunday brunch in Bayern, scrambled eggs and pancakes are extremely hard to come by. Therefore, this past weekend when Andy and Whitney invited us to a local restaurant with a real "American-Style" brunch menu, how could we resist? Yet, the experience was not quite what we expected...

"Seven? And you all want to sit together? Without a reservation?" asked the waitress, auf Deutsch, at Cafe Westend. "Impossible!" she exclaimed. "Come back in two hours."

Two hours?! What were we supposed to do with our grumbling stomachs for two hours at 11:00am on a Sunday? Besides, in two hours our scrumptous American brunch would then be a German-style lunch.

Pleading with the prickly waitress, Evelyn was able to sway her to seat us...in the basement of the affiliated (and closed on Sundays) kegeln alley. Trudging down a couple of flights of stairs into the dark basement, the waitress led us through a locked door.

"You okay with this?" she asked.

"Yes," our hungry stomachs answered as we entered the vacant kegeln hall.

But to our surprise, the end result (a private, amuzing brunch and impromtu bowling party) turned out deliciously and way better than expected:

Brunch Bunch
(We ate in this quiet, empty room at this akwardly positioned private table and then tested our skills on the kegeln alley behind us.)

Andy Attempting His Hand at Kegeln
(It's actually a lot more difficult (and different than bowling) than it looks...and the pins are attached to strings!)

Entrance to the Infamous Cafe Westend
(Pronounced with a "vuh" sound, Cafe Westend now comes highly recommened by the Brunch Bunch.)