Vegan brunch! UrbanPl8! Yum! Good!

On Saturday J and I had a nice ride and lovely brunch at UrbanPl8, which is horrifically located in a weirdass condo & retail development inconveniently located in so-called "West Midtown." They had two delicious vegan options:

(that's the vegan tofu scramble on the left, and vegan breakfast on the right, with a pinto bean cake, collard greens, and fried sweet potatoes on the right.)

The staff is ridiculously friendly, and the $10 bottomless mimosas were SLAMMIN: strong, constantly refilled, delicious. The 50% Scoutmob app coupon only saved us $7.75, as the bottomless mimosa (did I mention it's only $10?) wasn't discountable (fine, it's booze) and neither was the $2 coffee (what the hell is with that? At least the coffee was delicious.) Completely inexplicably, they don't have soy milk (?!?) but one of the ridiculously friendly servers pointed out they do keep coconut milk mixed in the bar, and he loves it as a vegan option.

We loved the food and the people, and will definitely go back: even without the Scoutmob coupon, our receipt included a $5 off coupon. So I'm really sad to have to link to the prediction in one of my favorite blogs, Tomorrow's News Today, where the (very well informed and very diligent) author put Urban Pl8 on his 2011 Q1 Deathwatch, and has had it on the Deathwatch since Q2 2010. Sure, it's still making a go of it, but the location just sucks, and even though they had every table occupied during brunch service on Saturday, I have to agree with Tomrrow's News Today that it's hard to see how this physical space, in this location, could possibly do enough business to make it work.