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| - After October's CIBC Run for the Cure, my friends and I headed here for some well-deserved post-running brunch.
My friends had been before, while it was my first time.
As always, I was stunned by the price of fresh-squeezed orange juice and opted for water or ginger ale instead.
The atmosphere is a bit crazy. It's a busy brunch place and you may have to line up, as with most brunch places in the city, it seems.
The menu is extensive with lots of savoury and lots of sweet options and the pricing is what you'd expect for the Annex and for brunch foods.
I ordered the eggs Florentine. There was at least an entire bunch of spinach on it. That's both good and bad. Good, because spinach is good for you and bad because it took away from the tastes of the hollandaise sauce, etc. However, the eggs themselves were delicious.
One interesting thing I noted were the home fries. They were large, real potatoes but were absolutely drenched in this house made barbecue sauce. To Insomnia's credit, they tell you that on the menu (although they don't mention that you won't be able to see the potatoes for the amount of sauce they use) but I guess I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I'm a person who loves them some condiments. This was just overkill.
At the end of the day, the service was good (by brunch terms, so relatively good), the prices were normal and the potatoes......well, saucy.
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