On weekend mornings, Juan Caicedo doesn't need to get out of bed to meet the brunch crowd.

When the horses finally left to make room for the regular brunch crowd, Mr. Eagan surveyed his buffet tables, a mushy mass of hay, oats and apples.

We-get a big brunch crowd, serve till two-thirty, three o'clock, then open again at nine.

In fact, hundreds of people strolled the trendy Lincoln Road area of South Beach this afternoon, where restaurants were about half full with brunch crowds and boutiques remained open.

ON Saturdays at Paradou, a small French restaurant in the meatpacking district, the bed-headed brunch crowd slogs in after noon, ready for mimosas.

S Map This self-consciously hip restaurant is a magnet for the young, post-party brunch crowd.

The brunch crowd is large here but easygoing, like the neighborhood.

An East Villlage mainstay, for over 50 years, Veselka has been a favorite of the brunch crowd and the late-night partiers alike.

At Sylvia's Restaurant, it was the talk of the after-church brunch crowd.

Cordoniu champagne is served in flutes the way the brunch crowd prefers it, freely.