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| - Walking up to this place, I wasn't sure what to expect... it was pretty divey and in kind of an off the beaten path location in Toronto, near Graffiti Alley. When I stepped in, I kind of felt like I was lost at a truck stop in Texas, and Sadie was going to pop up at the perfect moment to feed me and get me back on the road.
But it wound up being a little cozier than that. Sadie's is a vegetarian/vegan place that serves traditional breakfast meals without the meat, and with substitutes that taste pretty close to the real thing. The waitresses were super friendly and attentive. I had the Vegan Rancheros, which was scrambled tofu with refried beans, guacamole and salsa on crispy corn tortillas. I can't remember the last time I was moved to poetry by tofu but this dish makes the cut of one of the best non-meat breakfasts I've had in a long time. I had a drink called the "citrus sunrise" with grapefruit and ginger that was memorably yummy.
Also, it seems that someone who worked very hard to collect Pez dispensers has found an installation space here. There is a "Wall of Pez" with hundreds of these things, lined up one after the other. Without reading into why one may have collected quite so many Pez dispensers, it seems to have found a niche around the ambience and totally "fits".
I'll see you soon, Sadie!
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