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19 reviews for Eggspectation Resto-Cafe
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My great eggpectations were readily met by Eggspectation, a welcome change from the hotel breakfast routine that we experienced during our first morning in Montreal.
On morning two I pledged to do better and so , having researched yelp montreal, crossed Place D'Armes and made my way to an establishment that could just as easily be called Place D'Eggs (Des Oeufs).
The breakfast menu is very eggs-tensive but also includes pancakes, waffles, crepes, bagels and more.
I was immediately drawn to the bagel with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. (On the side, thank you). Given my voracious breakfast appetite I thought I'd also order a brioche.
What arrived was by far the mother of all brioches and could have been shared by two people.
I wasn't too much a fan of the fact that the bagel came atop a bed of lettuce but I gladly overlooked the green when I bit into the doughy sesame goodness.
The scrambled eggs were also tasty, unlike the hotel's they were not rubbery, resembling chopped up dish washing gloves.
To reiterate, great eggs and they know how to use them...
(Given that the restaurant's name is a pun I had to indulge).
On day 3 we returned and I tried the waffles with bananas and powdered sugar. Once again, great food at great prices. The only reason I detract the 5 star rating is that service was slow on both occasions.
Sunday's tardiness I could understand as the place was swarming with guests but on Monday the place was much emptier. Slow service did not at all detract from the overall experience as the food surpassed my expectations.
Finally, the decor is far better than the typical IHOP-- exposed brick, visible kitchen where you can look and listen to the sounds and sights of food preparation and tastefully positioned eggs and egg themed art.
We were walking around Montreal starving on Saturday morning and passed this place. It seemed pretty busy- there was a few people waiting for tables- so we decided to give it a try. We waited about 15 minutes for a table. No one was coordinating who was being seated when, there was nobody to ask about wait time, and there was no actual line. So we kind of just milled about in the front of the restaurant until someone pointed at us and told us to follow them.
Our waiter was really, really slow. Eventually, we ordered. I ordered iced tea, and they charged me by the glass without mentioning it first. My friends ordered coffee, and every time they needed a refill, it took us 15 minutes to wave down our waiter and ask for more coffee. I ordered a bacon and cheese burger with fries. It arrived cold, without bacon. My friends both ordered eggs benedict, and their eggs arrived hard, and not runny at all. However, they said it was still good- but also cold. We could have asked our waiter to warm up our food- a table next to us asked him to warm theirs up- but we were so hungry and sick of waiting that we just decided to eat it.
When we finished the meal, it took forever to get our waiter to bring us our check, pay, and leave. The food was average to below-average, the service was horrible, and the meal took forever (about 1.5 hours). Not a good combination!
Overall the food is fine, but not a satisfying value given that I don't eat much bread, fried potatoes...
At a glance, the variety and selection are fairly impressive but that's where the delight ends. Most of the dishes come with a side of fresh fruit. They make white bread that is fresh, thick and fluffy...
Getting seated took a while. After our food arrived, it took some effort to let our server know when we wanted something further.
I ordered corned beef hash w/ eggs, naturally and I was disappointed with the meat portion and quality. It's basically hash from a can with lots of little tiny bits of potato, in a flattish 2.5 x 2.5 patch, surrounded by starchy fillers like bread and potatoes. I've had much much better with nice tasty chunks of beef, less potato and a generous plateful for less than $7 at Pamela's in Pittsburgh.
My husband ordered a side of baked beans and he got these in a little plastic cup roughly the size that you taste samples in at the grocery store...
Of course you can customize your meal with sides. Extra Hollandaise sauce is as is typically the case in Montreal available for a supplement.
Note also that they have a bar and alcoholic beverages are served here, but the hours are quirky so check before going.
I will probably be back but I am in no hurry.
Despite the handful of negative reviews, I went for breakfast. Service was slow (and it wasn't busy). Arrived at about 7:30 on a Saturday and wasn't served until about 8:15. After the wait, I got burnt bacon, a burnt bagel and over cooked eggs. The food at McDonalds is better!
The only positive is the place looked nice inside (though the chairs were uncomfortable).
What's there not to like about breakfast/brunch food. At a reasonable price and with an extensive menu, Eggspectation is a level above your grungy diner. Definitely the place to go after a night of partying out in the streets of Montreezy.
I ate at the one on St Catherine by the jazz festival, but it's not listed on here, so I shall review here.
I know it's a chain as a poster below mentioned, but still, if someone asked me my fav rest in NYC, I would probably say Nobu, even though it has about 15 locations. Or maybe even Striphouse, which has a bunch too. Shake Shack has 3 in NYC..So if you can give me a weekend where I have eggspectations for breakfast, shake shack for lunch, and nobu for dinner....(maybe even late night at Wendy's), I don't think I could really complain too much...
Although...when I saw their menu and their locations...Montreal, OK, Toronto, OK, and then two totally f$@#ing random spots in Maine and Maryland?? Seriously? why not New York if you want to expand? I'd say Hoboken too, but I'll still order Turning Point any day over eggspectations
Enough about that, the service was great (what can I say, I love cute French-Canadian chicks), the prices are cheap, and the food is fantastic. And....they have lil packages of peanut butter at the table..don't judge, but i threw some in my bag for later...
I had an omlette with cheese and jalepenos which was spicy and really good...the potatoes and toast too...
My chick had a breakfast burger, and although Ive never had lettuce and tomato on a hambuger bun with eggs, it really was good...don't mock it till you try it...orange juice was fresh squeezed too. There were about 25 more things on the menu i really wanted to try..too bad i only went there once during my trip..well...i guess I can always take a road trip to Maryland one of these days..
Yum Yum!! First, I love breakfast. Second, it's often very hard for me to find a good breakfast place while traveling.
Eggspectations is decorated in lots of fun egg art and the staff is friendly and prompt. The menu has more options for Eggs Benedict that I have ever seen before. Hubby had a bagel version that was pretty good. For me, the Eggstravaganza was awesome!!
On top of the great good, the juice I ordered was certainly fresh squeezed and delicious!!
If you're in town make sure you stop by so that you can get a great breakfast in Montreal.
We went to more than one location in Montreal. We were converts to the Montreal bagels -- they are seriously yummy. Maybe even yummier than a New York bagel (sorry New York). This is right on the border of the touristy Basilica area and business district.
On the plus side is a fabulous menu of eggs, bagels, crepes and smoothies. Everything we tried was fresh and brought hot to the table.
I think the service is a bit Operatic at this location. It's very happy to help you and then I want to spit daggers at you. So be warned. The food is rather good for a quick meal. Just the service is all over the map.
Have you ever thought of having IHOP reinvented into a cleaner, tastier and no-smellier version?
Canadians have the Eggspectation (not really sure if they have it outside of Quebec though). I've been to the ones in Montreal.
They have very good breakfast plates, less greasy flavor. I never eat sausages, but theirs were so good. I had scrambled eggs, with two sausages, two pancakes and a salad, w/ cafe au lait. Service was pretty fun, we had a very funny waitress.
Liked it a lot! Try it out for a rich breakfast while visiting Montreal!
The food was good, the sevice was great. Prices are pretty reasonable. I had a crepe with chicken, spinach, mushrooms, and 3 cheese inside. It was pretty good, and didn't feel like I was going to have a heart attack after eating it. Other's from my group tried the omlette with bacon and cheese, eggs benedict with smoked salmon. Everyone seemed to enjoy there meals.
Would go again for breakfast.
I loved the decor and the food. I'm a huge fan of eggs benedict. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever ordered any other kind of eggs as long as egg benedict is on the menu. The options are vast if you're a fan of eggs benedict as I am.
I also have an appreciation for fresh squeezed juice. I don't drink out of a jug at home so I certainly won't when I'm eating out. Fresh squeezed juice my friend. What more can you ask for?
Actually, there is something you can ask for, a shorter line. The line up is too long. By the time we were seated, my hunger had passed. It came back when I saw the menu though.
The place is pretty impressive from the onset as the decor is slick. I went twice with my family on a recent Montreal weekend. The first day the service was awesome and the family was delighted with their breakfast. Unfortunately, I found a hair in my eggs benedict halfway through breakfast. I didn't bring this to anyones attention as the rest of my family was raving about the food and I didn't want to ruin the experience for them.
The second day we were seated upstairs and waited too long for a server. When Carlos finally graced us with our service he was a total prick. He was unfriendly and my wife and I were both of the opinion that he didn't want to serve us. We had to wait far too long for our food and he didn't ask the perfunctory question, "Can I re-fill your coffee?"
This guy knocked a full star off my yelp rating.
I hate to be negative so I'll finish by saying that the food was quite good and that chances are you won't get stuck with Carlos.
Did not meet my eggspectation.
Normally it's not a big deal if one of my over-easy eggs comes with a broken yoke, like at Denny's or something. But at a place that's all about eggs, they should know better! Actually, it's not even a problem since I break the yoke myself anyway. What was definitely annoying was just one waitress working the whole restaurant. Everyone was up out of their tables trying to track down the waitress, trying to get their bill so they can finally leave.
Tips: Come here for a leisurely breakfast. And by leisurely, I mean eternal. Good eggs though.
Both my husband and I loved this quirky little place. It was a nice mix of tourists like ourselves and locals. The decor is funky with many iron accents with a play on eggs.
I got french toast with bananas. It was delish! I am usually not a huge fan of French toast - but hey I was in Montreal. It was nice and fluffy - not heavy like I'm used to. Just enough to satisfy my mid-morning hunger without it being a mountain of food. Coffee was great too. My husband got the yolk around the clock or something like that which has dippy eggs, meat and bagel among some other things. He was grinning from ear to ear by the end of that meal.
If I'm ever in town again I'll definitely be back!
I think my niblings are still wiping the drool from their faces. Before they were even halfway through their meals, they asked if we could eat here every morning of our vacation. Micaela's strawberry-flambé pancakes had just the right level of sweetness, while Carter's latkes and eggs weren't overly heavy and had just the right level of grease -- not too much to have your arteries whimper, but enough to make you smile with each bite. I had a yogurt-and-honey-dolloped cinnamon brioche, which was quite tasty on its own, especially with the fresh fruit.
Our smoothies were only so-so. I was excited to down my berry concoction, but it just didn't live up to my expectations. Neither did the niblings' pagés, which, according to my native francophone friend, doesn't mean squat in French. There were several other items on the menu that we didn't get to try, so I'm sure we'll be back at least once more this weekend.
The reputation this place has as a tourist trap isn't exactly getting help from the kind of service I had today. After delivering coffee, the server disappeared for more than 20 minutes - he never took my order. He wasn't busy; he was at the cash, chatting with the only other server. Unless you're stuck in Old Mtl. with nowhere else to eat at 7am, head for the nearest Chez Cora instead.
We had high eggspectations but were rather disappointed. As others have mentioned the decor is cool with whisks serving as door handles and a huge egg chandelier. However, it took FOREVER for us to get our eggs. Apparently our order was lost. FORTY FIVE MINUTES just to make some eggs. Please. When my eggs came they were tasty. I ordered the classic eggs benedict. My friend's eggs were cold. The server made no attempt to make things right by giving us a free coffee or juice or anything. Looks like at least one other person here had a similar experience. They need better staffing, IMO. Too many customers, too few waitstaff.
Loved the decor. The place was super cute, with an egg theme--trust me it's worth going for the sheer fun of cracking egg yokes for the rest of the day. Oh no I didn't.
The service was awesome. Ask for Fred, who probably no longer works there. We went with a large group and were treated great. The running joke (that took serious restraint) was trying to determine which way Fred swung, which was tricky because he was flirty and touchy with both the guys and girls. We tried and failed to find him on myspace. The mystery remains.
The food was also really good. I got the eggs benedict and had no complaints; everyone in a group of 9 was content. Had I stayed in Montreal longer, I would have definitely revisited Eggspectation.
i had corn beef hash with eggs. it wasn't fresh corn beef hash, boo. it was nice late brunch with the girls and hit the spot. really good toast and good smoothies. the restaurant was super close to our hotel, embassy suites.
