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| - I have been going to the old Swan ever since I moved to the area over ten years ago. I was sad indeed when they closed up, it was my favourite brunch place in the west end. However when I heard about the new restaurant, I was very excited to try it.
The food: unfortunately I wasn't too impressed with my $14 scrambled eggs and one sausage. The sausage was chewy and burnt, the eggs were basic and decent, and the watercress salad was mostly just watercress stems, not easy to eat. For $14 this should be some of the best eggs and sausage around. It wasn't. The squash rosti with poached eggs and smoked salmon was however quite nice, a small portion but very nice, I'd stick with this dish if you want to treat yourself to an expensive brunch.
The coffee was very good, although it took 15 minutes to get to me, and it wasn't that busy... which I guess is a service problem. If I took 15 minutes to serve a coffee I'd at least apologize for the wait and maybe not charge for it, neither of which happened. But I reminded myself that this is the west end after all, and WE are the lucky ones that get to be served by entitled hipsters thinking that they're doing us a favour by letting us into their shop in the first place (pardon the run-on).
The atmosphere however is still great, nostalgic, reminds me of the old spot, which will make me want to give them a second chance one day... not too soon though.
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