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| - To me, the popular neighourhood brunch spot Bonjour Brioche is overrated. On every weekend, rain or shine, there's ALWAYS a bloody long lineup, for crying out loud! Sometimes you can barely squeeze through the sidewalk and be on your way because the lineup is thick. Ugh!
So one sunny free weekday, I did what any curious sucker would do: eat here for once and find out for myself. No lineups, for once. Phew!
I had a peameal bacon sandwich, and it was a mouthful of fresh flavours on a tasty bun. But it didn't quite blow my mind. It's not something I would line up nearly an hour for.
What really had me on a sour note was the service. Walked in and found an empty small table at the patio bench. Already I felt lonely. And it took maybe 10 minutes (at the verge of me walking out on an anticlimactic note), before a staff noticed that someone new had just conjured up and should be offered a drink and a menu.
Whereas other parties in the patio were being attended to regularly, including two Japanese girls that sat beside me before I was even given a menu, I was largely ignored, even when I called for a server. I don't know; was it because I was dining alone? It took them 10 minutes to produce the bill, which I promptly took to the front to pay. Was going to bring it up with a manager, but I was running late.
Comme ci, comme ça, I guess. Not a place I would be ecstatic to line up to eat again at.
{TTC: any Queen streetcar to Saulter St/Boulton Ave.}
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