This Restaurant Was Voted Best Brunch Spot In NYC

NEW YORK CITY – Brunch is a New York City institution but one restaurant in town blows the Sunday morning competition away, according to food website The Daily Meal.

Soho's French spot Balthazar - a favorite with the ladies of Sex and the City – is the best place to enjoy a leisurely Sunday morning meal, according to the site.

The Daily Meal compiled the list showing the best brunch eatery in every state by doing a deep dive into review sites. It specifically looked for places that don’t just serve the best traditional food but also venture outside the box.

“These restaurants pay just as much attention to their brunch menu as their dinner menu, and they serve it all in a lively space with just the right amount of celebratory fanfare,” the list's authors wrote. “If you live near any of these spectacular spots, set aside a leisurely Sunday afternoon and treat yourself.”

Here's what the Daily Meal had to say about the Spring Street eatery:

Since opening in 1997, Balthazar has become a quintessential New York restaurant, a bustling brasserie that’s somehow sustained its momentum for more than 20 years. One bite of the steak frites in restaurateur Keith McNally’s legendary Parisian-style dining room will show you why it’s been so successful, but you haven’t really experienced Balthazar until you’ve had brunch there. That’s when servers deliver warm goat cheese and caramelized onion tarts, caramelized banana and Nutella tartines, decadent scrambled eggs in puff pastry, brioche French toast and eggs Florentine. Plenty of Balthazar classics, like grand shellfish plateaus, French onion soup and the aforementioned steak frites, are still available, along with a variety of fresh-baked pastries. There are a seemingly infinite number of brunch options in New York, but none ace the formula quite as well as Balthazar.

The full list of brunch eateries is available on the Daily Meal website.