Bottomless Brunch Near Me: Jacob's Pickles Reopens Bigger on Columbus

For fourteen years, the person running the kitchen at Jacob's Pickles watched the same thing happen most Sundays: a line stretching down Amsterdam Avenue, an hour-plus wait, and a dining room too small for the crowd its fried chicken and bottomless mimosas had built. In October 2025, owner Jacob Hadjigeorgis stopped patching around the problem and moved the whole operation four blocks north to a room built to actually hold the weekend rush.

Karpo can check tonight's table availability at the new Columbus Avenue room and flag whether the Sunday wait has actually shortened since the move.

Jacob's Pickles opened on Amsterdam Avenue in 2011 and spent fourteen years building a reputation on buttermilk fried chicken, biscuit sandwiches and a weekend brunch that ran on bottomless mimosas and Bloody Marys. The room worked for years, then stopped working, mostly because too many people wanted in at the same time.

In June 2025 the original Amsterdam Avenue spot closed briefly after a health department inspection issue, around the same period the relocation was already being planned. Rather than reopen in the same footprint, Hadjigeorgis moved the entire operation in October 2025 to a larger space at 680 Columbus Avenue, between 93rd and 94th Streets, a few blocks north of the old address.

The new building previously held Agave, and before that Gabriella's, so the shell is a converted mid-size storefront rather than something purpose-built. What's gone into it is a bar sized for roughly 350 people, run as an indoor-outdoor hybrid, plus a dedicated patio kept climate-controlled so it stays usable through winter rather than closing down after autumn.

The decor leans rustic-Southern and keeps the pickle motif running through the space, down to the jars featured on the takeaway menu. People who've eaten there describe the interior as charming and a bit lived-in, the kind of room that works for a loud Sunday brunch table and then flips easily into a late-night bar crowd.

The core menu hasn't changed with the move: biscuit breakfast sandwiches, buttermilk fried chicken and waffles, and a build-your-own pickle sampler that runs four types for around $12 or eight for around $18. It's the kind of Southern comfort-food list that made the original room a regular stop long before the bigger space existed.

The Columbus Avenue kitchen has added a few dishes that sit outside that Southern lane, including matzo ball soup, catfish tacos and seafood platters. Pricing stays in casual territory, generally under $30 a plate, and the dress code is exactly as relaxed as that suggests.

Brunch drink packages include unlimited house mimosas and Bloody Marys, the two drinks the weekend crowd is really there for. One recent price put the deal at around $17, though that figure predates the relocation and is worth confirming directly before you sit down, since drink pricing sometimes shifts with a move like this.

Portions run generous enough that takeaway boxes are a common sight leaving the table, which makes pacing worth thinking about before the food arrives. Starting with something lighter, biscuits or fried pickles rather than a full plate of fried chicken and waffles, buys more time to actually make use of the bottomless drinks before the heavier dishes land and the pace of the table slows down.

Jacob's Pickles books through Resy and takes walk-ins seven days a week, but it isn't on the OpenTable network, so anyone used to checking there will need to switch platforms. That's worth knowing before you're stood outside deciding how to get a table.

At the old, smaller Amsterdam Avenue room, Sunday brunch waits of over an hour were common, and regulars learned to reserve roughly an hour ahead rather than turn up cold. The much larger Columbus Avenue space is said to have made reservations noticeably easier to land than the old address managed, though it's still early days for the new room and worth confirming current wait patterns directly rather than assuming the old numbers still apply.

680 Columbus Avenue sits mid-block between 93rd and 94th Streets, on a stretch that's residential brownstone and apartment blocks rather than a commercial strip. It's a short walk to Central Park entrances further south and east, useful if brunch is meant to run into an afternoon walk rather than end at the table.

Two sister restaurants under the same ownership group, Maison Pickle and Tiki Chick, sit nearby on the Upper West Side, part of the same Pickle Hospitality operation. After dark, the neighbourhood reads considerably calmer than downtown strips, which tracks with a bar built for a weekend crowd rather than a nightly one.

Jacob's Pickles is now at 680 Columbus Avenue, between West 93rd and 94th Streets, on the Upper West Side. Standard hours run Monday to Friday, 10am to midnight, and Saturday and Sunday, 9am to midnight, though it's worth confirming these directly since some listings still carry the old Amsterdam Avenue schedule. Reservations run through Resy rather than OpenTable, and walk-ins are accepted every day. The nearest subway access is the 1 train around 96th Street, a short walk east. Expect a casual dress code, plate prices generally under $30, and a Sunday brunch crowd that's used to a wait, even in the larger room.

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Is tonight's Columbus Avenue room actually taking walk-ins without a long wait, or has that only shifted for Sunday brunch? Ask Karpo to check current Resy availability and flag whether the bottomless mimosa pricing has changed since the October move.