Decided to stay local for breakfast and give this spot a chance.
Plenty of parking is available during the weekend and the waiting line is non-existent despite "prime-time" breakfast at 11 AM on a Sunday. It's not secret who the clientele for this place is, mostly locals and people willing to eat a step up from the Cite de la Sante hospital up the block.
The ambiance is very warm, with big windows providing lots of sunshine with a nice looking fireplace in the middle of the joint. The seating does need a little but of love as more than one chair wobbled under me and the tables were a bit off. This type of stuff leaves an impression.
Another thing that left an impression is the impressive amount of fruit flies buzzing around. A clean sign that either trash isn't emptied as quickly as it should, the place is dirty somewhere or food kept out too long.
I ordered their breakfast special which consisted of eggs, bacon, potatoes, strawberry french toast, toast and beans. My wife went with french toast with fruits. Our impressions :
- The coffee is very strong, my wife loved it. I prefer my coffee half-strong and putting 2 milks and 2 sugars isn't the ideal way to have coffee but it brought it down to "drinkable" levels.
- The eggs, toast and beans were pretty decent.
- The bacon were bad, either they weren't fresh or high quality or they were microwaved. How can you screw up bacon???
- The french toast with strawberry slapped with cream cheese was a mess. A delicious mess that cancelled out the terrible bacon.
- The potatoes were amazing. Crispy and tasty. I didn't opt for cheese but the option is there CHEESE LOVERS, they were pretty damn good!!!
All in all, it was a good breakfast. Why 3 stars though?
The coffee for one for me was pretty bad. The bacon as well. Lastly, the service was a too slow for my tastes without faulting the staff, they seemed overwhelmed which was a shame.
I must not forget to mention that the price-tag was a bit too expensive for what I got and it's hard to compare this place to other local competition.
SORRY MICHAEL.
Would I come again? Maybe. Not anytime soon though. Too many other places to try. read more