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| - I feel like Azyun is going to be one of those places where it will be quite hard to get a seat in the future. Partly because the space is tiny to begin with! The restaurant is located on Main Street Markham and is located quite close to Inspire actually, which also serves Asian fusion. And the space is just as small, so even now it might be good to make reservations. We just walked in and fortunately there just happened to be enough bar seating for two facing the window. The place itself fits maybe 25ish people, including the bar seating, as part of the space is occupied by what I think is the open kitchen.
Though there was a large party that day, Ricky made us feel welcome and walked us through the brunch menu (which is a fairly new addition), taking the time to describe each dish when it arrived and asking for feedback at the end. Service was excellent and there is clearly passion behind this place and a desire to grow. Asking for criticism isn't the easiest thing to do!
The food: we ordered the Azyun eggs benny and fried chicken + french toast. Prices and portions are on par with what you might get downtown - $17 and $19, respectively. We left decently full with room for dessert. I think Inspire has slightly bigger portions. I know this place is for tapas, but I think the brunch menu is more like individual meal portions.
The poached egg was perfect in the eggs benny and what makes it unique is that it comes served on Chinese mantou. Their reasoning is that it's not quite as heavy and dense as an English muffin (true). It comes with double roasted potatoes (and they give you a lot of potato, perhaps to make up for how filling an English muffin is). Solid dish.
The fried chicken is brined overnight and was very flavourful. Super crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. It comes on top of french toast filled with nutella and condensed milk with a blackberry coulis on top and honey butter on the side. Separately, these things were delicious (the nutella was a little heavy for me but that's personal preference). Together, they weren't unpleasant but chocolate and chicken is a bit of an odd combination... it wasn't a bad combination though! Perhaps something to make the dish feel a bit more cohesive would be a good addition though I'm not sure what that might be.
Overall, I think the flavors for these brunch items were balanced and more subtle than Inspire, which I like. I would come back to try more items! Markham really needs more places like this instead of chain restaurants... I hope they do well and continue to leave room to improve.
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