Avo and Toups South add brunch options
 

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Restaurants Avo and Toups South are upping their brunch games in coming weeks.

Uptown, at chef Nick Lama?s Italian restaurant Avo (5908 Magazine St., 504-509-6550), a Saturday and Sunday brunch kicks off with baskets of house-made pastries and small plates, including pesto deviled eggs, meatballs and polenta, brown butter yogurt parfaits, and an everything spice bagel flatbread topped with smoked salmon, capers, red onions and leek cream.?