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| - Bistro Tôt ou Tard is the perfect place to go to if you want to brunch on a budget. Located on the corner of Cherrier and Amherst, it is nice and cozy and has quite nice views of the park right next to it. The warm and inviting environment combined with the cool morning air and sunlight shining through the windows provided a relaxed feel, and the amount of food given for the price was amazing.
I ordered the Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict, and for $12.50 it came with a sausage, two slices of bacon, a large amount of homestyle potatoes, and a bowl of fresh fruit. The sausage and bacon were perfectly greasy and carried a savory flavor that satisfied my breakfast meat craving. The Eggs Benedict, interestingly enough, had a base of Montréal bagels rather than your typical English muffin. While I didn't really care for the change, probably because I think that Montréal bagels are too stale and sweet (?) for my taste (go New York bagels!), everything else about them were super tasty with perfectly runny egg yolks. The potatoes didn't taste overly fried and salty like I normally find with breakfast potatoes, so that was a huge plus for me. Finally, the fruit was a sweet and refreshing way to end a meal that left me almost in a food coma and unable to walk home. Whether you interpret that as a good or bad thing is completely up to you, but the price I paid (both literally and figuratively) for eating that much was all worth it in the end.
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