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Best brunch binge

Tufts University students - and shrewd locals - have known for years that Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club is more than just a great venue to catch a local or national music act. The Davis Square mainstay also serves the brunch to end all brunches: every Saturday and Sunday, throngs of students and Somerville regulars file into the sunny space for a morning of live music and culinary excess. Sure, you can order a single egg or a bagel with cream cheese, but you'd be missing out. Instead, pick the Brunch Combo and you'll find your table piled high with pancakes, French toast, omelets, home fries, toast, and some of the best oatmeal (with raisins, milk, and brown sugar, of course) you've ever tasted. At $7.99 for the whole affair, gluttony has rarely come so cheap.

Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club, 17 Holland Avenue, Somerville, (617) 776-2004.


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