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We left town the day Corbeaux opened so I made my husband promise we would visit as soon as we were back in town. It was a no brainer since we really had no food in the house. Despite the late hour for breakfast we arrived to a pretty packed restaurant, quite loud due to the lack of ceiling and box like shape. It was -20 C outside so every time the door opened the cold air came in and I think the heating system had a difficult time keeping up. The skylight, while gorgeous, is also a heat sink.
We were greeted upon arrival and told it would be a 20 minute wait. Hubby, who doesn't like to wait proceeded to the counter for a coffee and croissant while I took care of seating details. I didn't even get as far as the cake display and our table was ready so we settled in and waited for our server. Despite two servers calling in sick we felt that service was pretty good, though I did have to ask what type of meat was in the rillettes several times before I was finally told it was duck (good idea to put rillettes de canard on the menu). We both ordered the poached eggs, then shared the Charlevoix cheese, sausages, and rillettes de canard. We also had the Brioche doughnuts with lemon curd to share.
Here are the negatives:
1) Everything arrived barely warm. I don't fault the kitchen as the flavours were perfect...even if the server picked them up from the pass as soon as it was ready, the journey through the chilly room would have cooled the dishes off. Even our lattes were lukewarm.
2) The poached eggs, cheese, and rillettes were served with the thinnest slice of bread possible. So tough as to be difficult to cut AND tear. It made enjoying our lovely poached eggs, cheese, and rillettes almost impossible. If you change this bread out...you would have some great dishes!
3) I couldn't figure out if it was 'build your own brunch' or a 'sharing' concept. If your concept is to have sharing plates for brunch, then the plates should be larger. Adjust prices accordingly. Two sausages for three people is not a great sharing plate.
We ordered some pastries to go and were blown away by the raspberry macaron (and it is MACARON, fellow reviewers...not macaroon!), the lemon meringue tarte, and the two éclairs that we had.
I think that Corbeaux Bakehouse has great potential and a few of the kinks can be worked out fairly easily. I'm looking forward to visiting again...especially in the warmer months when that patio is open!
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