Sunday is always lazy, so an early breakfast is simply out of the question. By the time you get round to leaving the bed, it`s closer to lunch time, so the solution to the problem is simple: brunch! Sundays are also family days for many, ie it`s a time for entire families to come together, eat and interact, and that`s where brunch once again comes into focus.

It`s no wonder then, that a lot of eateries, restaurants and breakfast places have now introduced brunch menus to cash in on the popular trend. The latest among them is the popular eating spot Angeethi, which has restaurants on Karachi`s Tipu Sultan Road and Khayaban-i-Shahbaz.

It was one such Sunday in the ongoing autumn season when our extended family chose to brunch at Angeethi. Having heard only good things about their morning breakfast menu, strictly through word-ofmouth, we ended up at their Tipu Sultan branch.

We were eager to dig into the desi menu, which featured platters of fried eggs, Pakistani and cheese omelettes, chana tarkari [chickpea curry] and halwa with fresh puris. But the hero of the menu are their crispy stuffed parathas, filled with yummy stuffing of either aaloo (potatoes), cheese, BBQ or pizza toppings. Needless to say, the stuffed parathas caught everyone s eye.

To wash it all down, there was a choice of assorted hot beverages such as karrak doodh-patti chai [strong tea brewed in milk] and coffee, or sweet or salty desistyle lassi [buttermilk].

Of course there were those in our party who stuck to their patent Sunday staple breakfast of halwa puri or omelettes. But for those who wanted to embark on a culinary adventure, it was a round of lachha parathas and the stuffed ones, with everything from aaloo to cheese to pizza toppings.

And they certainly did not disappoint! The crunchy melt-in-your-mouth golden fried parathas ticked all the boxes when it came to awakening taste buds, followed by bottomless cups of doodh-patti and glasses of lassi. By the time we were done polishing off our round of parathas, most of us were too stuffed (pun intended) to savour the leftover halwa puri or even some omelette.

Then it was time to play a game of passing on the food bill, which came to a pretty decent amount, including a hefty tip for our servers. The bill finally ended up being split three ways. We were more than just pleased with our brunch outing as the time came to head back home and while away a lovely autumn Sunday, or what was left of it anyway.

The writer is a member of staff He can be reached at quraishi.faisal@gmail.com