We met  friends for brunch on Saturday at Watty & Meg in Cobble Hill. We were supposed to go to Quercy next door but at 11:30 they weren’t ready for customers so we tried what our friends called “the new place on the corner.”

Watty & Meg is an old style bar/restaurant that has a very warm vibe thanks to nice lighting, oak church pews (repurposed from a Harlem church), black boards and bookstore shelving.

We sat in the back and enjoyed better than average brnch fare. I had the Scrambled eggs with Spanish chorizo and Romesco for $9, which was delicious.  Others at the table tried the somewhat exotic BBQ duck hash with Long Island duck, fingerling potatoes, Sunnyside duck egg and sliced cured duck for $15 and Huevos Rancheros for $10, which the waiter said was the dish that men always order.

It’s a super comfortable place to sit and talk. You can hear yourself think and with coffee refills, you could sit there for hours except…

…after we finished our entrees and refused dessert, the waiter asked us to leave because he said there was a reservation for 8 people. We’d only been there for about an hour and the restaurant wasn’t really that crowded. He was pretty nice about it and suggested that we sit at the bar. We paid up and left.

That was the only sour note of an otherwise excellent brunch.

Watty & Meg 248 Court Street between Kane and Baltic