One should make a festive meal by a Bris Milah. The Rama"h writes that this meal is called a seudas mitzvah (רמ"א יו"ד סי' רס"ה סי"ב). As such, it should be celebrated appropriately, with a befitting repast; preferably with meat. There are Poskim that rule that if one does not serve meat, he has not fulfilled his obligation. (מג"א סי' רמ"ט סק"ו ובמחצית השקל שם).
R. Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apta, know as the "Apta Rov" and author of "Ohev Yisrael" noted that people were lax in this and sufficed with serving only coffee by the Bris Milahs they would make. He remarked "I don't see how an appropriate child will grow from the coffee-bris..."
ברית אבות סי' י"ג אות א
ועי' מגדל עוז (יעב”ץ) נחל התשיעי יאור י”ז אות ג
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