Thanks for the summary, Ryan (brahtw8).
I would suggest that we try for one brunch, not two. Pick one date and hope that folks can make it.
As for the place, the food at the Grand Geneva is a whole different category from Walker Brothers and the other pancake places - with its all-you-can-eat buffet which includes everything from made-to-order omelettes and carved-to-order prime rib, to the more usual buffet dishes (including eggs, bacon, smoked salmon, etc)... which is why it costs more. It's more of a place where people can eat at their leisure and sit around socializing for a couple of hours, whereas at the pancake places, which tend to be crowded on weekends, we're basically going to order, eat, and leave. In that respect, it's like Allgauer's, which is where we went most recently.
For that matter, maybe we should try someplace in the Milwaukee area that has a nice brunch? I see that Pandl's in Bayside was voted top choice for Sunday brunch in a reader poll by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Go to the restaurant's website and click on "Sunday Brunch" to see some of their items. "The brunch includes: selections from our cold buffet; omelette and Eggs Benedict table; International table; waffle, crepe and dessert table." After all, we've already done the Grand Geneva - why not someplace new, like that? Heck, it would be a lot more convenient for the Wisconsin folks, and not much further for the Chicagoans than Lake Geneva is.
We'll try to make it wherever it is. We'll want to be home for the trick-or-treaters, but they don't start in our neighborhood until late afternoon (4 or 5 pm), well after we would be getting home from brunch (even if it's in Wisconsin). Don't count on my NSX being there, though; I turned off the insurance right after I got back from NSXPO 2004.
I would suggest that we try for one brunch, not two. Pick one date and hope that folks can make it.
As for the place, the food at the Grand Geneva is a whole different category from Walker Brothers and the other pancake places - with its all-you-can-eat buffet which includes everything from made-to-order omelettes and carved-to-order prime rib, to the more usual buffet dishes (including eggs, bacon, smoked salmon, etc)... which is why it costs more. It's more of a place where people can eat at their leisure and sit around socializing for a couple of hours, whereas at the pancake places, which tend to be crowded on weekends, we're basically going to order, eat, and leave. In that respect, it's like Allgauer's, which is where we went most recently.
For that matter, maybe we should try someplace in the Milwaukee area that has a nice brunch? I see that Pandl's in Bayside was voted top choice for Sunday brunch in a reader poll by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Go to the restaurant's website and click on "Sunday Brunch" to see some of their items. "The brunch includes: selections from our cold buffet; omelette and Eggs Benedict table; International table; waffle, crepe and dessert table." After all, we've already done the Grand Geneva - why not someplace new, like that? Heck, it would be a lot more convenient for the Wisconsin folks, and not much further for the Chicagoans than Lake Geneva is.
We'll try to make it wherever it is. We'll want to be home for the trick-or-treaters, but they don't start in our neighborhood until late afternoon (4 or 5 pm), well after we would be getting home from brunch (even if it's in Wisconsin). Don't count on my NSX being there, though; I turned off the insurance right after I got back from NSXPO 2004.
IMO, no. Nothing against those with other kinds of cars, but... either it's a brunch for NSX folks, or it isn't.brahtw8 said:
