Orange Social Kitchen + Bar

FOOD

Butter chicken curry gives Orange Social’s bottomless brunch a distinctive savory beginning. The kitchen uses tandoori-marinated chicken in an Indian tomato curry sauce, bringing a particular preparation to the all-you-can-eat selection. It’s a lovely reason to look beyond the usual breakfast plate. Omelets, brunch tacos, French toast and pancakes share the weekend invitation, so curry enthusiasts and devoted breakfast people have several real dishes to explore.

The brunch tacos give the savory side another recognizable choice, while the omelet specialty keeps an egg dish at the heart of the meal. That combination suits a restaurant whose cooking reaches beyond the familiar American breakfast. Tacos and curry can make brunch feel comfortably close to lunch; an omelet can keep it firmly in the morning. Nobody has to persuade a pancake person to abandon her principles.

French toast and pancakes make the sweet breakfast case. Both belong to the advertised unlimited selection, letting the griddle favorites hold their own beside the savory dishes. Either can begin the meal or provide a sweet return after the curry. Brunch is particularly good at overlooking that sort of indecision. Quite rightly. Being fond of butter chicken needn’t disqualify anyone from being fond of pancakes.

The separate brunch menu offers other plates for an additional purchase, including a smokehouse omelet and a strawberry-Nutella waffle. Mimosa flights and cocktails are paid additions too. Those options give companions ordering a single meal some distinctive choices, while the bottomless offer supplies its own breakfast-and-lunch range. The attraction is that named combination: tacos, an egg specialty, two griddle favorites and butter chicken curry, all within one sociable weekend meal.