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Is it just us, or is this time of year exhausting? With all the shopping and parties, you need the right kind of fuel to get you through the day. Luckily, Gaslight, a French brasserie in the South End, is offering a filling and cheap brunch every Saturday and Sunday throughout this month.

This Bostonist hates brunch. Hates it. He has no idea what would possess so many thousands of people, of otherwise sound mind, to wait in 20-person-long lines only to pony up anywhere between $12 and $20 to buy food that cost a restaurant a buck fifty in the first place and that you could totally cook at home.

Mike of The Food Monkey shares his thoughts about cooking, food history, restaurant trends, and any other Epicurean issues. He promises to discuss what tastes good, but not always what is in good taste. For more on consuming the opponents and other food news, go to the Food Monkey website. To contact Mike, go to the Food Monkey's contact page.

A sign hung outside of Picante one day as we stumbled to the Red Line one Sunday morning. It read "Brunch" and in smaller letters right next to that "Mexican Brunch." We had an inkling that Picante served such a thing (it's printed on their menu – but no times or days of the week are given). A few weeks later the decision was made to check it out. We price was right at about...

We all know Bostonians love to brunch. This weekend, put that mid-morning appetite to good use and participate in The Greater Boston Food Bank's Super Hunger Brunch.

When Bostonist gets the Sunday New York Times (and yes, haters, we get the Globe too), we first find the magazine to see if the cover story is sufficiently compelling to make us jump right into it. When that is not the case (sorry, Joan Didion, but if we wanted extended meditations on grief on a Sunday morning, we'd go to church), we go to the Sunday Styles section to see how the other half lives (and marries). In the Styles section yesterday, we came across a weird article about some hot new cocktail, which contained the following rumination on autumn: "[I]n addition to its being the season of fresh opportunities for your social life - refreshed by the summer, being your personal best, a k a serious dating - fall is the season for prickly cactus pears." With this in the back of our mind, we were strolling through various squares in Cambridge later that day and noticed what seemed to us an inordinate number of young couples whom we presumed to be on their way to brunch after a first night together (the tousled hair, the amorous disposition, etc.). We had always thought it was spring that made a young man's fancy lightly turn to thoughts of love. But could it be that the crisp air and the end of summer are the real catalysts of an increase in semi-serious coupling?

Lots of the city's fancy restaurants are opening their cash registers this weekend for The 14th Annual Super Hunger Brunch. Thirty-seven eateries are having brunches with 100% of the proceeds going to the Greater Boston Food Bank. Prices range from $20 at Dockside Restaurant to $50 at Icarus. You can pick up a "Chef Card" ticket in advance at the restaurants, and many have already sold out. And if you aren't the type to get up before noon, you can grab dinner at Il Capriccio tonight or Craigie Street Bistro and Garden of Eden tomorrow, and they'll donate some dollars as well.