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| - this place sits a few doors down on the danforth from pape on the southeast side. it is the restaurant for the catering business from which it stems. the food here is the strongest component, which is pretty fine by me. the environment of the restaurant, though welcoming through its staff and appearance seems a little slapped together without much interest. to clarify, i was sitting right at the front of the place, where, at its window overlooking the danforth sits two high darkly stained square tables with high stools to match. call it trendy, cool, whatever, but it looks great, gives you a warm comfortable and unpretentious feeling. my table (which sat adjacent to the one i just described) along with the tables that followed behind it towards the back were covered with some cheap plastic like cover that felt and looked gross. bad idea. no coherence here. as well at the front on the bar, sat a couple trays of beautiful looking pastries; as you walk in there was a nice welcome sign, etc., but one glance towards the back made you feel like there was nothing beyond your positioning right now worth exploring. i say do it for the whole as a whole or dont do it at all.
the food choices were really exciting however. take the poutine for example. it involved the classic fries, gravy and (mozzarella) cheese with pulled pork and a fried egg on top. i didnt order that (i had fries the day before, felt guilty, etc.) but i saw someone else who ordered it and it looked scrumptious. i will definitely order it next time around. i had a version of eggs benny, called eggs benjamin with a crumpet instead of the english muffin, and smoked salmon instead of back bacon (i still ordered bacon anyway on the side...might as well have ordered the poutine, i discovered as i licked bacon grease off my lips). i prefer the english muffin, actually; the crumpet was too dry - perhaps thats what crumpets are supposed to be like. the accompanying potatoes, both normal spuds and sweet ones were great. my wife had some scrambled eggs that were actually steamed eggs done by the steamer on an espresso machine. pretty cool and pretty healthy.
i would definitely come back again and try other stuff. and make sure i park myself at one of the cool tables upfront.
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