Le Jardin

Des Moines Register- Boozy Brunch

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Le Jardin

2815 Beaver Ave.

515-255-5787

Go for a touch or France with Le Jardin’s brunch every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Le Jardin only has a beer and wine license, so they get clever with the cocktails with the Le Jardin blackberry-mint spritzer with white Bordeaux as the base or the New York Avenue spritzer with Parallele 45 rose. Even the bloody Mary uses sake instead of vodka.

For food, try one of the newer dishes such as the harvest omelet with roasted pumpkin and sweet potato, brie and crème fraîche or the Greek omelet with egg whites, merguez sausage, shallots, harissa, feta and crème fraîche. The booziness of brunch even extends to the baked crème brûlée French toast with its Grand Marnier custard. Keep in mind that every entrée includes two a la carte items, so pick the berry clafoutis with whipped cream, apple cobbler coffee cake, sour cream potato cake or Holdeman Farm capon sausage.