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| - I often get breakfast here - always delicious and reliable. Their East York Special - three eggs, bacon/sausage, home fries and toast - is filling and inexpensive. The main waitress/bartender is always friendly and personable, and the regulars are also polite and friendly. There is a kind of family atmosphere between the people who frequent this place.
I really have no idea what's going on with the other reviewers here. Their main points of criticism seem founded on pure conjecture and rumour. In the three years I've been coming to this restaurant, not once have I or my girlfriend ever felt in danger or threatened. Yes, it is a humble place - the menu is not going to be like a gentrified, overpriced "ironic" diner. I can understand some people not liking the smokers out front, but I have never experienced anything like rudeness from anyone there. Now, I've never gone at night for a beer, but it is a neighbourhood watering hole; every place needs one of those.
If you want a fancy looking place with overpriced food, surrounded by snobs, there are plenty of other places down by the Danforth. If you want simple, cheap and satisfying food, and you can handle the fact that you're surrounded by people who aren't all yuppies and hipsters, give this old place a try.
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