When you wake up late for brunch, you have to expect that you'll have to wait in line wherever you go. You also have to expect a little bit of a wait once you've been seated because the establishment is probably busy by the time you get there. These are some things that I have learned over the past year or so.
However, a patron (lets call him Kevin) should not have to wait for an hour and thirty minutes for his food. He should also not be so hungry that he has to resort to eating from the peanut butter packages. Also, when one orders cranberry juice, that person should get cranberry juice, not cran-banana (which is not good FYI).
When we receive our food, our waitress isn't very apologetic. It is at this moment that it is pretty clear that the Lakeview Lunch is a hipster hangout and we should be so lucky to be seen there.
As for the food, I decided to get something called a "Hillbilly Omelette." The omelette consisted of cornbeef, sausage, and potatoes. The omelette was overcooked, leaving a very crunchy mass of uncomplimentary flavours mingling. It was as unappetizing as that reads. However, when one was as hungry as I was, you strive to finish. It was a marathon of sorts. The homefries (or fried discs of potato) were good, insofar as they were fried potatoes. My toast could not be qualified as such, because it was bread that was probably toasted for half a second.
The only element that made eating my meal possible was the half of a bottle of Tabasco. It really stands to the quality of the food when you have to use hot sauce to mask the flavours of the restaurants food.
Don't waste your time. You will waste a lot of it.
Lakeview Lunch
1132 Dundas West, at Ossington
$10-20
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Bar Hair-talia
Don't get me wrong. I love hair when it is on someone's head, chest or even on unmentionable areas of a body. These are all places where hair should be. However, at Bar Italia, not only does your fruit come with sweetened cheese, but it comes with a bit of hair mixed in.
Bar Italia looks great. It is a bar during the evening and a restaurant during the day. The resto-bar offers an italian take on breakfast, insofar as it offers a plate of breakfast foods that are
Italian (well, the sausage was Italian).
Eggs are pretty standard and they come poached unless otherwise stated. Homefries are very lightly mixed with herbs to a point where they could easily be done without. They do nothing to enhance the flavour of the potato, therefore this reviewer suggests they try again.
The sausage was cooked well and it wasn't bland. It was by far the highlight of the meal. There weren't any greens on the plate, so I chose to get a green salad on the side. It was a mixed green salad, dressed with olive oil, lemon, salt and pepper. It was refreshing and large for the price that was paid (2.50).
Unfortunately, nothing was amazing and while I would have been able to give Bar Italia an okay review up until this point, I was served fruit with a bit of hair. The hair was obviously there at the top and had my plate been looked at briefly, it could have easily been switched out. Although, I am glad it did get sent out, because it is this lack of regard for their quality of food that makes it very easy for me to warn brunchers from heading to Bar Italia.
Stay away. College St has much better options.
Bar Italia
582 College St.
$15-20
Bar Italia looks great. It is a bar during the evening and a restaurant during the day. The resto-bar offers an italian take on breakfast, insofar as it offers a plate of breakfast foods that are
Italian (well, the sausage was Italian).
Eggs are pretty standard and they come poached unless otherwise stated. Homefries are very lightly mixed with herbs to a point where they could easily be done without. They do nothing to enhance the flavour of the potato, therefore this reviewer suggests they try again.
The sausage was cooked well and it wasn't bland. It was by far the highlight of the meal. There weren't any greens on the plate, so I chose to get a green salad on the side. It was a mixed green salad, dressed with olive oil, lemon, salt and pepper. It was refreshing and large for the price that was paid (2.50).
Unfortunately, nothing was amazing and while I would have been able to give Bar Italia an okay review up until this point, I was served fruit with a bit of hair. The hair was obviously there at the top and had my plate been looked at briefly, it could have easily been switched out. Although, I am glad it did get sent out, because it is this lack of regard for their quality of food that makes it very easy for me to warn brunchers from heading to Bar Italia.
Stay away. College St has much better options.
Bar Italia
582 College St.
$15-20
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