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Eggspectation
Category: Restaurants Breakfast & Brunch Breakfast & Brunch [Edit]
190 Sainte-Catherine OuestMontréal, QC H2X
(514) 288-6448
- Hours:
Mon-Wed 6 am - 5 pm
Thu-Fri 6 am - 9 pm
Sat 7 am - 9 pm
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Garage, Street, Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Wi-Fi:
- Free
- Good For:
- Breakfast, Brunch
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Ambience:
- Touristy, Casual
- Has TV:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Dogs Allowed:
- No
25 reviews for Eggspectation
Review Highlights
22 reviews in English
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Review from Sara M.
4/24/2012
I am not huge on breakfast foods, I don't like bacon (gasp) nor sausage or other kinds of typical breakfast meats. I'm not huge on carbing it up so early on mounds of pancakes, and I despise eggs. I know what you are thinking "so Sara, if you despise eggs, why would you dine at a restaurant called EGGspectation?"
The answer is simple, I don't live round these here parts and the nice girl at the desk of my hotel recommended the place.
Coming in on a Saturday morning around 11, my friend and I were seated right away and a waitress greeted us promptly; the 2 story restaurant buzzing and the tables full of happy diners. Skipping past the huge list of available egg selections, I settled on [calorie packed] french toast.. hey I'm on vacation right? 3 slices served with maple syrup and fresh fruit, yumm yumm. My friend ordered the southwest omelet which was served with a basket of toast, potatoes and fresh fruit.
The service here was probably the best I received during my entire trip in Montreal. It was maybe 10 minutes from the time we ordered to the time food was set in front of us and our waitress came back a few times for coffee refills and to ask if we needed anything.
One out of one Saras agree that Eggspectaions is eggcelent. -
Review from Melissa M.
10/19/2011
My girlfriends and I ate here from a recommendation from one of our co-workers and what a great one it was. We decided to sleep in during our first full day in Montreal and when we were finally out and about, we made our way over to Eggspectation. There wasn't much of a wait, but it was definitely packed. There are many hotels around here which probably makes it a popular spot to eat. They seated us upstairs by the window where we got lots of light and were able to people watch. Our waiter was super friendly.
I ordered their Eggstravaganza ($12) which came with two eggs (any style) and two slices of French toast, choice of Sausage, Ham or Bacon, served with grilled Potatoes and chef's Fruit garnish. I also ordered a glass of OJ which was fresh squeezed. Their Sausage was slightly sweet which I loved and it made a great complement to my scrambled eggs. Their French Toast was fluffy and delicious!. And their Fruit was fresh and sweet! Loved my meal. My girlfriends and my tummy were very much happy. We were ready to explore Montreal after that! -
Review from Jode L.
Montréal, QC
4/10/2012
I expected this place to be a little bit better from the things I've heard about it but for me (or the meal I chose) it wasn't all that great.
The selection they have is rather expansive. They have a copious amount of egg options, burgers for the extra hungry, and waffles/pancakes for your sweet tooth. I opted for the Eggs Florentine which comes with grilled potatoes and fruit. It took a bit of a while for my meal to come. It's brunch on the weekend - I understand. But anyone that loves poached eggs inherently understands the immense satisfaction when you cut right down the middle of it and this vibrant yellowy orange yolky liquid gold oozes out. This didn't happen for me. My eggs had hardened and the yolk oozed out - or should I say hesitantly inched out - very anticlimactically. The English muffin aka piece of cardboard it was on was tough to cut through and the hollandaise sauce was way too salty for my liking. The disk of potatoes that came with my order tasted really grainy and left a powdery kind of taste in my mouth. And nothing was wrong with the fruit (pineapple, watermelon, and a grapefruit slice) because you can't really mess that up. -
Review from Justin M.
Milton, ON
4/18/2011 2 Check-ins Here
Honestly, I was a bit of a pain (English pain, not a piece of bread) but my waitress did not bat an eye when I asked if I could get milk for my tea (when she'd already given me some) or when I asked for a glass of ice (un glass de glacé?) because I had slept in a dry hotel room last night.
But, when I came back the next day, she remembered and asked me if I needed it again. No one ever remembers me. I am sad, and they made me happy.
The food isn't quite up to the same level as the service, but could it hope to be? I mean, the food is good, and the sugar shack breakfast I got was awesome. I could have ditched the potatoes and had more baked beans instead. Oh, I love baked beans.Listed in: Breakfast, the most important…
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Review from kent c.
8/15/2011
Decent breakfast spot.
Good prices
A good amount of selections for breakfast, sandwiches, and dinner items.
They offer a good variety of breakfast and eggs.
Fresh squeezed OJ was fresh.
The bread ain't bad. They give you a good selection of jams.
Not too oily on the food.
Good service.
Good easy to get to location in downtown.
I would eat here for bunch any day. -
Review from Anna L.
10/9/2011
A block from our hotel and it was always packed so we figure we should check it out. It was good but then it's pretty hard to mess up eggs? If you sit outside, service may be a bit slow as they get really busy. The fresh fruit juices are delicious. I liked the Oy Vegg (eggs came with potato latkes and sour cream) but the Eggspectation was decent too.
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Review from Richard W.
4/25/2011
This is hands down the best breakfast chain of restaurants that I have ever been to in my entire life. The food here is unbelievable and the wait staff was super accommodating.
First off, I love puns so I was intrigued by the name alone. My friends and I were on vacation in Montreal and we needed to find a breakfast place. We were walking around and we saw eggspectations and decided to go in there.
IT WAS THE BEST DECISION EVER. I got eggs with toast and bacon / sausage plus fruit and home fries. It wasn't a complicated meal, but oh my goodness the flavors were outstanding! These sunnyside eggs were just so rich and thick and gooey and delicious. The bacon was crispy but chewy, but not super greasy. The sausage was juicy, but again, not greasy somehow. No idea what was going on there. The home fries were amazingly tasty with a little bit of salt and a savory taste BUT AGAIN THEY WEREN'T DRIPPING IN OIL. I actually asked for more toast to wipe up all the eggs. I'm someone who usually blinks and then my food is gone, but it actually took me an appreciable amount of time to eat this meal.
When I went back to Montreal again, I found myself in Eggspectations and I suspect that wherever one crops up, I will be in there. OH MAN IT WAS SO SO GOOD. GO THERE! GO NOW! HOP A BUS OR A TRAIN OR DRIVE... IT'S WORTH IT! -
Review from Nelson N.
8/31/2011
A group of my friends wen there twice over this past weekend that's how much we enjoyed this place. I was a big fan of the decor and layout of the place. It had a very chill and modern feel to it. They have both french and english menus which was a bit confusing but we dealt with it. The first day I had a fruit smoothie which was great especially after a long night. I had the California scramble over a muffin and the presentation was great and flavor was decent. The next day I had fresh squeeze orange juice and the eggspectation omelet. It was a winner in my books very flavorful and refreshing. I would recommend this place to a couple or a group of friends. The only reason I didn't give the place 5 stars was because we waited a bit for food and the bathroom was not very clean.
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Review from Wally C.
12/15/2009
I went here on a Wednesday afternoon. The waitress gave me major attitude. I was still nice to her. She was also mean to two other people at our table. Seemed kinda random or something. I had the submarine burger with fries. The Burger was a regular burger with cheese and pastrami on top. It was filling. The fries were shoestring fries. Good location, nice lighting. The bathroom is upstairs. There's a bar as well.
I'm giving it a low rating because of customer service. Why was she so mean to us? -
Review from Rod M.
10/11/2009
Man has this place gone downhill over the years. It use to be a sure fire breakfast hit. A bonanza of tastiness piled high on your plate.
SOMETHING HAS CHANHGED. . .
On a couple of recent visits the service has been poor, bordering on rude, the food terrible (the fruits that they use to decorate the plate with look like they were from last week) and over priced. There are tones of great breakfast places in Montreal and this is no longer one of them.
Frankly I'd rather skip a meal than eat at Eggspectations again.
Any hole in the wall diner will serve you a vastly superior breakfast for a small fraction of the price. -
Review from Joshua P.
7/23/2011
No reason to waste a meal here if you're visiting Montreal for a few days. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't all that good. The place was filled with tourists (myself included) and the service was understandably indifferent. Felt like a wasted 2 hours.
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Review from Bill H.
10/17/2010
We went to Eggspectation after a recommendation from the concierge at the W Montreal. Our requirement was simple... breakfast within walking distance.
Over the food was fine and really not the main reason for my low rating. While it wasn't spectacular, portions were good and it was tasty... just not great.
Now let's talk about service... simply put... SLOW! There seemed to be no sense of urgency despite a line of people waiting for seats. Our waiter was pleasant but terrified and absentminded. Honestly I'm not sure it was an issue with his ability or the fact that the place seemed severely understaffed for a Sunday morning. The whole place seemed like a perfect candidate for one of those takeover shows that works to turn a bad business around with a few easy and logical steps. -
Review from Jen W.
Vancouver, BC
7/14/2011 1 Check-in Here
Tasty, reasonable breakfast. Homemade hollandaise on the bennies (yum!). Mediocre service, but overall, a good breakfast option in an area of town where there aren't many.
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Review from Nadia O.
Toronto, ON
8/7/2011
The food is quite good. It's a neat spot but it would be better if they had a terrace on the roof! Even if you don't like eggs, you'll find something you can eat on the menu; lots of selection. But it's not that cheap, honestly I find breakfasts shouldn't be more than 7$, that's just me in my tax free haven!
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Review from Luca M.
Montréal, QC
5/11/2010
This is a place I patronize on a somewhat regular basis. The portions are generous and their eggs benedict are good creations. Needless to say it is a brunch spot for me.
As Gordon Ramsay put it, a good place will do one kind of dish brilliantly, while a bad one will do the opposite.
Well, if I were to hold Eggspectation to standard for their eggs alone, I would be entirely satisfied with the place. And I heard positive sounds from people at my table when they tucked into their own breakfast goodnesses. I suppose they were trying to say "It's good".
Yet the ubiquitous basket containing all one's eggs drops to the floor with a crack when it comes to service.
Attitude hasn't been a problem I have encountered at Eggspectation. Other reviewers' experiences are probably a symptom of
Place-des-Arts-itis: just because you're in the cultural heart of Montreal and in the middle of Jazz-fest doesn't mean you can drop your standards. Neighboring Baton Rouge suffers on occasion from the same ailment.
It is not uncommon for the main courses to arrive at different times, ergo some at the table are left waiting 5 or 10 minutes while everyone else is devouring their meals in earnest. At times non-coffee drink orders are forgotten altogether, such as juices or plain old water.
This has happened too often for it to be just a blip. Ergo Eggspectation doesn't seem to hold itself to a high standard. The decor's cheerfulness and quirky (and quite unintelligible) menu warrant an extremely high benchmark for both food and service. Else, it's more facade than character, more smoke than roast.
I like Eggspectation's benedicts and will be back. If service becomes consistently great, I'll gladly give one of my favorite brunch spots more stars. -
Review from Babar S.
1/3/2011
The reviews might have finally gotten to the owners. We had a great waiter, memorized the whole order. Quick service. Great cappuccino. My wife loved the juices.
Eggs are hard to mess up but some places do. We had bad breakfast the day before. We didn't have big expectations but really liked the place. -
Review from Malaise L.
4/9/2011 1 photo
I had eaten here last year and thought it was pretty good. This time I was not so pleased. The only reason why I gave it more than one star is because my companions were somewhat satisfied with their meals.
I ordered a fresh fruit plate, grapefruit juice and a coffee. They first brought the more complicated dishes my cohorts had ordered and about five minutes later they brought my fruit. I think maybe the reason why they took their sweet time is because they were busy getting a really long hair wrapped around several pieces of fruit. It was nasty. The coffee cup also had something suspicious sticking to the inside. Yuck. Before noticing the hair I asked the waitress, again, if she could bring me a grapefruit juice as she seemed to have completely forgotten about it. She said "of course" , as if it was the first time she had heard of it and left. She came back a few minutes later, with no juice, to ask how our meals were. I told her about the hair and she just said "oh sorry" and took the plate away. I asked her to not bring anything back as I didn't want her just to pull the hair out and give me the same plate. After everyone finished eating and she brought the check was when she decided was a good time to bring the the juice which I did not touch since I was grossed out. Before she took our payment she said "sorry again" and that was that for apologies. I'm definitely not going back. -
Review from Herve E.
Montréal, QC
9/3/2009
My eggspectations were not high, but from the spaced-out waiter to the overcooked and tasteless scrambled eggs, everything about my lunch was below average. Even Cora is much better than that.
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Review from Dani M.
9/22/2009
The name is catchy, the names of the dishes are whimsical. The place itself is very run-of-the-mill. Great spot for an easy breakfast, but nothing more than your typical eggs + sides. A tad overpriced, but tasty and satisfying nonetheless.
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Review from Sammi C.
Montréal, QC
4/29/2011
Just had breakfast this morning, I have to say that their menu is quite wide compared to some breakfast restaurants. I like the toasts and the in general the service was quick and friendly. I'm usually a fan of egg benedict but it was just overall o-k.
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Review from michael m.
4/20/2011
Really good. Better than anything we have in the Boston area. Nice folks run the place. Service was fast. I must have been to a different place than many of these other negative reviews. I am going back.
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Review from Stacey P.
10/20/2009
Food was good and there were a ton of options on the menu, but the service left something to be desired. However, they do service breakfast all day and I couldn't find anywhere else in the city that does that. Pancakes at 3pm=perfection.
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