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| - If you're going to boast awesome hollandaise, please:
A) make it in house
B) don't run out of it
I dined at this location twice while here. The first time everything was great. Food came in a timely fashion, it was delicious and a generous portion, didn't make it through all my lyonnaise potatoes... took us 45 mins to get a seat but I'm not about to complain that a restaurant is busy. Service was friendly and the smoothies were damn delicious too!
Then, I decided to return 2 days later.
This time, we waited only 10 minutes for a table. We were seated and then waited about 10 more minutes to be greeted by a server (Zach, really nice guy and friendly server!) - when we asked for our Benny's, we were promptly told that there was no more Hollandaise sauce.
"WHAT??!!"
Alas, shit happens. So we told Zach to grab our drinks (highly recommend the Banana Java smoothie) and we'll pick something else. When he returned, I tried to order the famous Bagel Sandwich with classic Montreal Style bagels... before I can finish my re-order, Zach tells me:
"We're all out of bagels."
At that point I was so hangry and annoyed that we just asked for some Bruschetta and our bill. To their credit, the Bruschetta was tasty. The service was also good and the drinks were great. The reason I'm leaving a 2 star rating is because Zach revealed something interesting to us when he mentioned they were 86-Hollandaise.
Apparently they don't make their hollandaise sauce in house. They make it in Montreal and send it to their restaurants! How do you pack and ship Hollandaise??? What kinds of preservatives are in the sauce? What the... I've eaten eggs Benedict all around Canada and the Hollandaise is always made in-house... finding out that their Hollandaise is shipped from another province, in a bag, made me feel like I was eating at Denny's.
Anyways, although things were tasty on my first visit, I was utterly disappointed on my second. The average of these two visits is 2/5.
Thanks Zach, for the honest explanation and for doing your best to keep us smiling. Cheers.
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