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| - So we're in the Mississauga area a lot to visit my father-in-law, and he loves this place. It's definitely a greasy spoon. Decent food, and lots of it, for a really low price. He says it's better than Symposium. (I completely and wholeheartedly disagree.)
I'm not sure how to describe my experience or exactly where I should start, but the food was okay, and the prices ridiculously cheap. They claim to be "the home of the healthy portions", which you should take to mean "home of the North American portions", leaving you with really cheap food, and a lot of it, neither of which is very healthy.
They have disturbing pictures and figures of smiling pigs and bags and bags of Dempster's bread sitting at the front. You order your meal at the counter, sit down, and then they bring it to you. I know I've said this already but I'll reiterate because I think it's important. It's not that service or the food is bad, it's just mediocre. I knew it was a greasy spoon going in, so I was expecting most of what I encountered, but when I ordered orange juice and was handed a bottled Minute Maid with my French toast and was brought No Name maple syrup still in the bottle, I just realized that this is not my kind of place. That probably makes me sound like a snob, or an ass, but if I wanted shitty orange juice or shitty maple syrup, I wouldn't go out to eat. That said, when I go out to eat I'm not expecting Grade A class organic maple syrup or fresh squeezed orange juice, but put my OJ in a glass and my syrup in a jar. Dining out is about the atmosphere as well as the food, and that's important to me.
All that said, if you enjoy greasy spoons, then you'd probably enjoy Skyway Jack's. They serve all day breakfast and apparently in the mornings they are pretty packed, and sometimes you even have to park across the street in the plaza. If the place is always packed, that has to mean something, it's just not my kind of place.
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