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| - It was a Saturday just before the lunch hour and M just had finished a competition and was hungry. We were browsing brunch places when G mentioned Bridges on First. I had heard of Bridges and have seen posts of their food on social media so I was totally down to try them out. Located along the main strip on the corner of 1st avenue in Bridgeland it was easy to spot. Lots of street parking available.
Bridges is Bridgeland's first neighbourhood pub that is family friendly and focus on comfort food. Entering, it's a typical pub feel with 76 seats available and flat screen TV's on the walls to watch the latest sporting events.
We were greeted and sat at a half booth half table and handed the brunch menus. Brunch is available only on the weekends from 10am-2pm. The menu had a good variety of brunch items, classic bacon and eggs, benedicts, hash, breakfast burrito, pancakes, breakfast poutine and some burgers. There were four of us, two of them ordered the breakfast poutine, M went with the magic mushroom and cinnamon bun pancakes and I went with the breakfast burrito.
It wasn't too busy at the time we went but it felt like a long time before our food came out (probably 'cause we were starving). The poutines looked smaller than I had envisioned but G had been here before and assured me that it looked small but was really filling. It was a classic poutine but with tater tots and hollandaise and came with braised pork belly, 2 poached eggs, a hush puppy and was sprinkled with bacon bits and green onion. The hush puppy looked really good and according to them, it tasted good too. The magic mushroom burger was a 7oz wagyu beef patty and came with portabella mushrooms, truffle oil, lettuce, bacon, borsin cheese and a side of hash browns. The burger looked smaller than its average size but in actuality it was probably the perfect meal. M had ordered the cinnamon bun pancakes too (she hungry) - 3 big buttermilk pancakes, topped with cinnamon icing glaze, whipped cream and candied walnuts. She really enjoyed the burger but the cinnamon bun pancakes were a total miss. I tried them too and I wasn't a fan at all. When I think cinnamon bun pancakes, I think that there's cinnamon glaze or something within the pancakes but these appeared to be plain with a little drizzle of cinnamon glaze on top. Unfortunately, the candied walnuts were the best thing on the dish. My breakfast burrito was supposed to be filled with Mexican rice and beans, scrambled eggs, salsa, cheese and sour cream and came with hash browns as well. It wasn't anything exciting - I don't recall having rice in the burrito. From what I remember, the 'salsa' was just diced tomatoes and I didn't taste much sour cream. Hash browns were good though.
Overall, the food was okay. Nothing to phone home about. The breakfast poutines seemed to be a hit though! But my burrito was OK - I wish it was more saucy or gooey because it was pretty plain tasting. Like I mentioned above, cinnamon bun pancakes were a total miss which made us sad because we were expecting something spectacular. I think that the descriptions of the dishes seem more appealing than they actually are. Service was good, there enough to ask how things were and fill our drinks but not always interrupting, which was nice.
I don't know that I will return for brunch because it just wasn't memorable. I bet it would be a cool place to hit up for lunch or dinner and to catch a game on TV with some friends. Maybe I'll do that.
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