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| - I'm pretty sure Universe is called universe because they have everything on their menu. Eat ALL the things!!!
They're a classy looking, modern-styled rather minimalist loungey looking spot with a really nice lady working there serving diner breakfast, steaks, shrimp, chicken, pasta dishes, pizza, Montreal smoked meat, poutine... the menu goes on and on but it's all really standard. I hate to say it, but it reminded of a less inspired Denny's menu. Had I been cruising along the Trans-Canada and come across Universe as the one place to eat in a hundred kilometres, the menu would have made sense to me and I would have welcomed it with arms wide open. But in such a densely packed area along 17th Ave, I was left uncertain what would make me choose Universe over any of the other places along the strip.
I got the Menage a Trois breakfast to go and was happy I had someone to share it with because it was definitely enough for two people. It was big, but yet again, I thought it was entirely standard. Eggs, hashbrowns, some run of the mill ham slices, breakfast sausages, bacon and some mixed fruit. It was exactly what I would expect and would have enjoyed at a highway-side diner. But in a busy, downtown area I just feel like if you want breakfast, there are better breakfast spots, if you want smoked meat, there are better smoked meat spots, if you want steak... it just goes on and on.
You're AOK, Universe, but I had trouble understanding just what it is that you want to do.
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