We were looking for a good breakfast place in the amount Royal area on a Thursday morning. My girlfriend found great Yelp reviews on L'Avenue. We walked around the corner to it and were impressed with the stylish, contemporary décor.
The menu is all in French. Our skills are low. However, our waitress was helpful and described everything to us. We ordered from the Benedict section. There is a huge selection of unique, carefully crafted options. We ordered the duck (coin coin) and chorizo benedicts. They offer a gluten free option which is on portobello mushroom for $2 instead of English muffin. This is what we chose for both.
Before our benedicts came to us, we were each served a big surprise skewer of fruit. Perfect! The benedicts came and they were huge. They also came with great potatoes. The duck one was savory. Lots of flavour. The chorizo one was very tasty. The sausage was a bit chewier than I prefer, but I enjoyed the flavour.
We would have been fine ordering one Benedict between the two of us instead of one each. Even with my big appetite, they were way too large for us to finish and we left a lot on the plate.
I highly recommend L'Avenue. I would go back because I love the food and the atmosphere. Oh! Go to the bathroom there too. Their bathrooms are soooo cool!