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| - My friends and I decided to check out this place for brunch because we wanted to eat chicken & waffles! Little did I know, the Thompson diner is actually inside the Thompson Hotel and it is next door to another fancy restaurant that also serves brunch -- The grand Colette. When I entered through the hotel to get to the restaurant, it had a large red light sign, like a typical diner, but as soon as I stepped inside, it was very bright. I love that there are A LOT of windows for natural sunlight to shine through. Personally, Sunday brunch is best when there's a lot of sunlight. It makes my mood happier which in turns makes me enjoy the food more. If I had a choice, I would definitely choose the patio too. The restaurant has a lot of booth seats that can seat up to ~4-5 people comfortably. Overall, it felt like a modern twist to a traditional diner.
I ordered the St. Lawrence Sandwich with homefries ($12.45). It was basically fried egg, pea meal bacon, swiss cheese, toasted on a kaiser. It was delicious, but it wasn't anything special. The homefries were not too oily but still crispy enough. My friend ordered the buttermilk fried chicken & waffles ($17.95) and this was REALLY good. It had 3 pieces of fried chicken on a bacon & jalapeno waffle. I loved that the waffle wasn't just a plain o' kind, but it added something to make it more interesting. The texture was more on a soft side, which I didn't really like as I prefer it being more crispy, but my friend loved it. I guess it is a personal taste thing. I also had a small piece of the crispy chicken and it was delicious!! Not too oily and had lots of flavour. I didn't really like the chipotle mayo though because it had this distinct taste to it.
The service here was good. Our server was really nice and got us what we needed. However, when I asked to take home my unfinished food, it was very weird. Actually, I didn't like how he took care of it. He came with an empty box and immediately I thought I had to put the food in the container myself, but instead, he insisted to do it. I passed over my plate to him and he basically dumped everything in the box, as if it was garbage. First, I have never see a nice upscale-ish restaurant put unfinished food in the container IN FRONT of the customer and second, it is really NOT nice to pour everything into box like that. I had half of my sandwich left and a cup of homefries and it turned out to be a complete mess after he dumped everything into the container.. If he had to do that, I'd suggest he take my dish to do it without me looking. Hence the reason why I took a star off.
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