Best Thing We Ate This Week: Commonwealth Brunch

Sleepy Saturday mornings just seem to cry out for lazy brunches, and nowhere is this more true than in Birmingham. After sleeping in a bit last weekend, I decided to walk into down and hit up one of my favorite cafes for its yet-untried-by-me brunch menus: .

While my fiance picked the "lunch" part of "brunch," I went with a choice from the menu's long roster of breakfast choices: the buttermilk waffles. There's something about waffles that I like so much better than pancakes, and Commonwealth's did not disappoint. Paired with a mocha, it was a perfect late-morning meal while we sat next to the floor-to-ceiling windows and gazed out on Hamilton Row. Commonwealth's prices are affordable, considering the meal feels gourmet, and you simply can't beat the atmosphere — the place quickly filled up with Birmingham-area regulars as morning became noon.

We gazed so long that we ended up going to a movie at the , but luckily, we were full enough from brunch that we didn't even need popcorn.