Avo and Toups South add brunch options

Italian brunch options and special menus at Toups South   Restaurants Avo and Toups South are upping their brunch games.   Chef Nick Lama’s Italian restaurant Avo (5908 Magazine St., 504-509-6550; www.restaurantavo.com) is serving a brunch menu including baskets of house-made pastries and small plates such as 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.…