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| - This is definitely a hidden gem of a restaurant. This summer I took up dragonboating and was relied heavily upon on where to go for brunch. My general go to places are closer to the downtown core, and so i used trusty 'ol Yelp for suggestions. The first few times we went to Easy Restaurant, Mitzi's cafe (twice), and Cardinal Rule. To be honest, they were disappointing. Every poached egg I got was overcooked, and generally, nothing really wow'd me. But what can you do? those were the places that were supposed to be the good brunch places.
Today, after practice we went to Easy. It was full, and with a 45 minute waitlist. so we went to Cardinal Rule. same result. not completely full, but nothing that could accomodate a table of 6 people at the time and wait was about 20 minutes. So, I take out my phone, go to Yelp, filter by distance for brunch, and up comes Ze Ze Food and Drink. Only a 2 minute walk for Cardinal and Easy, so off we go.
We get there, and though they didn't have a table for 6, the server/hostess accomodated us. She managed to kindly have one group (who just sat down) move to another table, so that she could rearrange a table of 4 and a table of 2, into a table of 6.
The Brunch menu has all sorts of delicious dishes. No Eggs benedict, but they have poached eggs. As I've been disappointed in the past, I decided to forgo the poached eggs, and got the breakfast sandwich with smoked ham, while my group got french toast, huevos rancheros, and spicy baked eggs.
It took a little while for us to get our food, but when you try to have 5 egg dishes and a french toast come to the table at the same time with one person cooking, that's bound to happen. We weren't in a rush so I don't think anyone minded. The server apologized that it took long, which she really didn't need to do. But it was appreciated nonetheless.
Once we did get the food, it more than made up for the wait in my opinion. Everything looked delicious and hot. And when everyone cut into their eggs, they were nice and runny like they're supposed to be. My breakfast sandwich was amazing. It consisted of 2 free run eggs and smoked ham, on homemade focaccia bread, smothered with pickled mustard seeds. I ate every last bite of it.
Suffice it to say, this is now my goto brunch place in the Roncesvalles area. I only wish I found it sooner. the fact that they don't have a 45 minute waitlist is beyond me, but if that means I get a table right away, I'm fine with that.
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