Ahh, Brunch. My favorite meal of the day. Melanie's was not somewhere I would brunch again.
The good:
- the eggs were perfectly soft poached. Until I started ordering poached eggs as part of my 'regular breakfast' I didn't know how difficult it is to cook eggs to a perfect soft poach. Melanie's does a nice job here.
- good quality ingredients - quality bacon and bread.
- great side of fruit. I usually hate the 'free fruit' that comes with breakfasts, but the fruit here was a very small serving of very high quality strawberry and melon that was diligently cleaned.
The bad:
- the hashbrowns are terrible. We were here mid-brunch cycle and the hashbrowns were lukewarm. They were clearly pre-prepared and came in a big scoop that looked like a serving of ice cream. It made me think that they were pre-made and kept in a big aluminum catering/prison food tray and scooped out one serving at a time.
- the ambiance here is horrible. It's boring, bland and reminded Kat F of a hotel lobby and me of a government building. It's the colour of death-tan.
- coffee sucks.
The weird-and-telling - the brunch menu had a lot of supper entrees on it like butter chicken and steak. These people are just confused and sterile.