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| - Canadians are very big on "breakfast overload" restaurants.
These are places with fine chefs, and high quality raw ingredients that specialize in enormous, highly caloric, over the top breakfasts.
Gigantic frying pans with edges four inches high filled to the gills with sausage, eggs, home fries, pancakes, and and and.
Eggs Benedict with with with.
Massive concoctions with French Toast as a base.
I do not like to stuff my face with 4000 calories at breakfast, and then have to waddle off to a hammock to take a nap.
I would rather start the day lean and mean so i can get some work done.
Dinner is when I don't mind sleeping it off afterwards.
That said, there is definite skill and pulling off these early morning wonders -
and many places fall flat on their execution.
OEB does not, and can really deliver a 4000 calorie breakfast that is perfect in every detail.
This is something I have to respect.
I had to get some work done at a conference,
So I went for one of the lighter items on the menu.
This was a house specialty called "Sweet Dreams Are Made of These".
Instead of 663 big heavy items all together on your plate, there is just one item on your plate.
A mere two thick pieces of french toast, with a wedge of vanilla lemon cheesecake in the middle.
Keep it simple.
They did not provide maple syrup with the French toast, and I personally thank them for that.
The execution on the French toast was magnificent. It was a first rate piece of cheesecake. The flavors blended beautifully. And - by design - the cheesecake partially melted under the heat of the French toast making a lovely sweet creamy gravy.
So I take off my hat to the cook and the kitchen.
The crowd is young affluent Calgary, all Clark Kents with dynamic exciting jobs.
The kitchen staff is all pierced and tattooed and global.
If I had to hang out after breakfast, I would vote for hanging out with the kitchen staff rather than the patrons, but that is just my personal bias.
A not unpleasant place, provided you don't own a bathroom scale.
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