Brunch is a New York institution. Yes, it's about food, but it's mostly about a meal in which mixing champagne and orange juice sounds reasonable. And you can drink as much of it as you want, without paying much. Nothing in New York is free... but sometimes, if you're lucky, mimosas come pretty close.

New York City has collectively come to understand that our beloved brunch-drink waterfalls are technically illegal. In a city with skyrocketing housing costs, immeasurable traffic, and constant noise, is it too much to ask that we at least have the benefit of brunching to our livers' content?

For New Yorkers, brunch is our happy place. It is a respite from the crazy, overwhelming metropolis that we hold dear. If we can say that ordering a 32 ounce soda is the right of every New Yorker, could we not argue that unlimited mimosas are equally as important of a right?

Let's repeal this teetotaling law and keep the mimosas and bellinis flowing. We deserve it.