Brunch

The Office québécois de la langue française accepts "brunch" as a valid word but also provides a synonym déjeuner-buffet. Note that, however, in Quebec, déjeuner alone (even without the qualifying adjective petit) means "breakfast".[14] In Quebec, the word—when francized—is pronounced [bʁɔ̃ʃ].[15]

The Chinese word “早午饭” is defined as brunch; “早饭” (早: morning, 饭: meal) means breakfast and “午饭” (午: noon, 饭: meal) means lunch in Chinese. The combination of “早饭” and “午饭” is “早午饭”, as known as brunch.

In many regions of Canada, in particular in Southern Ontario, brunch is popular on Sundays when some families will often host relatives or friends in their dining room. The typical brunch can last a few hours and go late into the afternoon. Montreal-style bagels may be served alongside egg dishes, waffles or crepes, smoked meat or fish, fruit, salads, cheese, and dessert.

Many restaurants offer brunch service as well, and is where the idea of buffets took on mass appeal. In the mid-1980s, with the price of food going down, some restaurants within Toronto started serving all you can eat buffet-style Brunch. Original restaurants in the south west area of Scarborough within Toronto alone included Town and Country Restaurant, Boy on a Dolphin, and Mother Tuckers, which much later on became a small chain with locations throughout the Greater Toronto Area, known as Tucker's Marketplace, and later on with the opening of Hot House Cafe, whose Sunday Buffet branch, became well known. Going out for Brunch became even more popular with the gentrification of the inner areas of Toronto by the mid-2000s, when smaller trendy restaurants started offering Brunch, such as restaurants in the area now known as Leslieville neighbourhood which is sometimes called the brunch capital of Toronto[16] as many renowned establishments serve brunch in that neighbourhood. Brunch buffets also existed in other parts of Southern Ontario, including Kitchener-Waterloo, where the German-term Smorgasborgs was sometimes used, from the 1970s onward.

In Canada, brunch is served in private homes using homemade foods and in restaurants. In both cases, brunch typically consists of the same dishes as would be standard in an American brunch, namely coffee,[17] tea, fruit juices,[18] breakfast foods including pancakes,[19] waffles,[19] and french toast;[19] meats such as ham,[20] bacon[18] and sausages;[18] egg dishes such as scrambled eggs,[18] omelettes[21] and Eggs Benedict;[19] bread products such as toast,[18] bagels[22] or croissants;[18] pastries[19] or cakes such as cinnamon rolls or coffee cake;[22] and fresh, cut fruit pieces[18] or fruit salad. Brunches may also include foods not typically associated with breakfast, such as roasted meats,[18] quiche,[22] soup,[23] smoked salmon,[22] sandwiches, and salads[19] such as Cobb salad.

Despite what Keith Kennedy says, brunch may be served in a private home. When served in a private home or a restaurant, a brunch may be served buffet style,[24] in which trays of foods and beverages are available and guests can serve themselves and select the items they want, often in an "all-you-can-eat" fashion.[25] Restaurant brunches may also be served from a menu, in which guests select specific items which are served to them by waitstaff. Restaurant brunch meals range from relatively inexpensive brunches available at diners and family restaurants to expensive brunches served at high-end restaurants and bistros.

Brunch in the Philippines is in between breakfast and lunch so by practice, it is around 9:00am and 12:00 noon. Contrary to what is being observed in other countries, brunch in the afternoon between 3:00 and 4:00pm is called merienda, a traditional snack carried over by Spanish colonialism.