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Fort Greene Restaurant Ditches Brunch Menu Because 'We Like Sleeping In'

By Rosa Goldensohn | September 17, 2015 11:08am | Updated on September 18, 2015 6:00pm
 The five-spice lamb sloppy joe is topped with an egg and served with potato chips.
The five-spice lamb sloppy joe is topped with an egg and served with potato chips.
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Martha

FORT GREENE — Martha is officially over brunch.

The Dekalb Avenue Thai fusion joint has decided to drop its brunch menu entirely — shunning the trendy weekend ritual in favor of a proper lunch, they announced Wednesday.

"There can be a mimosa-and-benedict expectation tied to the meal we call brunch," Martha owner Melissa Gorman said in a statement. "Lunch is just more our speed. We like sleeping in."

The lunch menu includes a honey-drizzled fried chicken sandwich, pickled shrimp vermicelli salad and a five-spice lamb sloppy joe.

Brunch menus have been getting a bad rap in city eateries, including a Red Hook eatery that created a popup named "F--- Brunch" in honor of the love-to-hate weekend ritual.

Still, Martha has loaded its sandwich list with a range of options that will still satisfy brunch holdouts: the "Sweet Thing," a fried ancho chili and chocolate-spread sandwich that's a spicy take on french toast, and the "Roti John," filled with a scallion-chive omelet.

For late-rising drinkers, they're offering a weekend happy hour between 4 and 6 p.m with two Evil Twin tallboy cans for $8 and a rotating selection of $3 house-blended shots of Italian bitters.