As Told Over Star-lite Brunch
Two weekends ago my two friends visited Richmond for the Watermelon Festival. We had to brunch before the festival, so I decided to take them to Starlite. I had never been to Starlite for brunch, but I had heard good things - and they weren't lies.
Starlite is on the corner of Main and Robinson, one of the handful of restaurants on that corner, and generally has open windows onto the sidewalk. On this day, it was already high eighties by 11 am, so the windows were shut. We crowded into the AC'd front part where a hostess asked us how many. We said we had three, and she said it would be fifteen minutes, but then a table opened up and we were about to pounce - until a larger party said they needed three tables, not two.
I considered throwing a mimosa on that group, then reconsidered seeing how we were outnumbered.
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