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| - Ok so if you know the Depanneur you already know that they do things a little differently than your typical restaurant. Their tag line, "A place where interesting food things happen" is no lie. They are always hosting supper clubs, and workshops on how to make pickles or vegan cheese, and having speakers come in to talk about sustainable food practices or other such things. Check their website (https://thedepanneur.ca/) or Facebook for the constantly changing roster of food things and pick anything and it will probably be great.
They are also known for doing a somewhat regular brunch. It has historically been your more "traditional" style - eggs, bacon, french toast, salad, etc. Somewhat simple but always very well prepared so that is still feels special.
BUT right now, they are playing host to Mazeh, a Levantine (i.e. Middle Eastern) brunch "pop up" and OH MAN is it delicious. Open for a couple weeks as of this post, and planning to run every Saturday and Sunday until the summer, you would be fool to not check it out while you can. With a small but mighty menu of classic Iranian and Lebanese dishes with a little twist, my group of three at brunch today were nearly giddy over how tasty everything was. Two of us ordered the breakfast shawarma with eggs, cheese, caramelized onions, pomegranate seeds and smashed fava beans wrapped in a grilled pita. The third in our group ordered an zucchini and herb frittata with a side salad. Everything came with fresh made labneh. Everything was consumed down to its last morsel.
We really wanted to order the cream cheese stuffed pancakes with orange blossom syrup and pistachios for dessert (because how could you not want that?) but agreed we were sadly too full. Reading our minds our server came over and asked if we wanted the pancakes, but modified to "kid size." Yes of course we said. Thank you we said. It was an excellent decision because hello that pancake was perfect.
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