We chose Harry's Tap Room at the last minute in lieu of Founding Farmers since the latter was unable to check their voicemail.  We had a large group which started out at 8 and ended up being 11 and since about half of the crew was in NoVA, we chose Harry's due to its size and accessibility.

I had been to Harry's once for brunch a few years ago, but it was not very memorable.  I just remember the atmosphere being nice and kind of "chain-y".  I think of it as a chain mainly because of the size...but upon checking out their website, I learned they are in fact a local establishment (of sorts) started by Enovo Restaurant Ventures and while they have three locations, they are big into organic/local foods.  I would have never guessed this had I not gone to their site.  Again, I think I have a preconceived notion of the size of a restaurant - if it's large it means not as good, but Harry's was proof that good brunch locations come in all shapes and sizes. 

Environment:  Harry's Tap Room is a two story restaurant with the bar downstairs and table seating upstairs.  The restaurant is almost floor to ceiling windows, so even though you are eating inside, the sun permeates the whole restaurant .   The decorations were very pottery barn meets local artist . The seating/furniture were classic dark woods while  the art was large contemporary oil paintings on which we all commented as being a little out of place with the feel of the restaurant.   However, now that i have read the website the artwork makes a little more sense since they promote organic produce and local farms.

Service:  We had a reservation for 8, but by the time I arrived I knew we were going to be 11.  The hosting team handled it quickly and actually seated the four of us who had arrived without making us wait for the whole party  (Take that Tunnicliff's)

Our waitress was good for the size of our party.  My only two complaints were a) they didn't bring out ketchup with our meals, which was weird because nearly every person had breakfast potatoes and b) our waitress seemed confused on how to do the separate checks.   What 11 person table gets one single check?  After a few rounds of explanations she finally got it.

Booze: A for presentation!  The Kir Royal had a strawberry on the rim and the Bloody Mary's had celery, an olive and a lime.   The mimosas were a little light on the champagne, while the kir royal was perfect. Sadly, I have no notes on the bloody mary's - anyone remember?  If so, post a comment.

Food: Somehow, I missed on the menu the references to organic and locally grown foods.  I think there was so much talking going on at the table due to the size of our group the ordering went quickly and I wasn't paying much attention.  However, for those environmentally friendly types - Harry's is a good pick.  Hmmm...maybe I should have a category for that? What would I call it?

Obviously, having 11 people, we got to try quite a bit on the menu. I don't have notes on everything, but from what I do have notes on, I would say you're probably not going to go get anything horrible.  While not everything was spectacular, nothing was a complete miss. The one down side was presentation.  After the drinks, I had a little bit higher expectation for presentation - the most boring/sad dish was the mushroom omelet...just sad.

For starters, the brie appetizer and Roasted Red Pepper and Crab Soup were crowd pleasers.  The soup was spicy with nice sized chunks of crab meat.  The fall salad was the only let down as far as value goes - for what the price was, the salad wasn't much more than mixed greens.

The bread baskets were abundant and filled with assorted mini muffins, biscuits and cinnamon raisin biscuits with icing.  Unfortunately, the cinnamon raisin biscuits which could have been deadly ended up being dry so no one od'd on them.  I don't know if this was a good or bad thing...I'm going to say bad. We are there to eat - not fast.

For expediency, I am just going to list the notes for each dish instead of trying to get creative and come up with sentencecs/paragraphs (I am watching Loverboy while typing this, so sorry if it's a bit choppy - gotta love 18 year old Patrick Dempsey.)

Bananas Foster French Toast:  See picture.  'Nuff said.  Actually, it was a tiny bit burnt, but still delicious. The side of bacon was good - not fatty or too crisp.

While the Eggs Florentine looked like it would be spectacular, the sauce was a little on the bland side making the omelet "pretty good."

The burger was decent - nothing was "special" about it.  It satisfied hunger but didn't surprise anyone's taste buds. Burgers are hard to do bad and hard to do great.

Crab Cake Benedict was awesome but the english muffin was a little hard to cut - though we couldn't figure out if that was the muffin or the dull knife.

The mushroom omelet came with lots of mushrooms, but know that they are not cooked into theomelet - they are wrapped inside.  Also, there is no cheese which was surprising.  If you get the omelet and like 'em cheesy make sure to order it with cheese.

The Oyster Po' Boy got a thumbs up and Steven felt the oysters were fairly fresh as they were not mushy and did not taste fishy.

Overall:  I would definitely go back to Harry's and would recommend it to people staying in NoVA.  Due to the size, you can get in quickly and you have a large menu to choose from with good drinks.  From a price standpoint, it's a pretty decent value - but you aren't getting a "deal." So don't go there if you are on a tight budget and like to have a few mimosas with brunch.     While I won't tag it with the "special occasion" category, if you live in NoVA it's a nicer venue than some of the other choices, so it wouldn't be a bad spot to go when you have friends/family in from out of town.