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| - This place is an example of one I wanted to work out - I wanted to give a great review to - and yet here I am, giving it 2 stars. We were visiting Toronto for the weekend and spotted this place and menu by walking by. It was a Saturday night, and the place was closed. However, we noticed that they serve a Vegan Benny! We were staying in the entertainment district, but we made plans to come back to this neighborhood in the morning before we hit the road. After all, that unique option is probably worth it.
We arrived at 10 am (1 hr after their posted hours said they were open), and it looked like we were the first ones in the door. The server told us that they just opened and we can sit anywhere. The place has a cool look - very similar to the old school city diners.
We both ordered a cup of coffee, a Vegan Benny, and two of their popular vegan donuts. Right away, we were told that the donuts haven't been made and that it will be a while. So, we understood and just ordered the meals. As a few more tables arrived, we continued to wait. As we waited, we drank our coffee (which was a damn fine cup of coffee) - but there weren't free refills. The server made one cup at a time, and there'd be an additional charge for a refill. It actually came as quite a shock, because diners that look like this (or represent themselves like this) is classic Americana, where an aging man can still drink an entire pot of black coffee as the world passes him by. But I couldn't. Instead, we continued to wait. The Vegan Benny arrived at our table 50 minutes later. We waited 50 minutes in a diner for our brunch. From what I observed, so did many other tables.
I'm going to try and separate the food's end result from the experience.
Honestly, the Vegan Benny tasted good. It was a unique item, done pretty well, and I'd probably like to eat something like that again. Meanwhile, the fresh fruit on the side was about 3 pieces of melon. So in short, the brunch was small. Very small. And we waited forever for this, without being offered an apology or a second cup of coffee! We paid, and we left. We were walking out the door around 11:20 am - which was the exact time the server was writing up the sidewalk chalkboard sign (2.5 hrs after their posted hrs state they're open), advertising their vegan donut special.
Maybe they do open at 10 am. Maybe it was the cook's first day on the job. Maybe the server has never socialized with other human beings. It could've just been a very bad shift on this one specific day. But I probably won't be back to find out if it has more to offer.
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