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Hot Stacks Family Restaurant
Categories: Restaurants Breakfast & Brunch Restaurants Canadian (Traditional) Breakfast & Brunch, Canadian (Traditional) [Edit]
29 King Street NCookstown, ON L0L 1L0
(705) 458-9933
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Breakfast, Brunch
- Alcohol:
- No
7 reviews for Hot Stacks Family Restaurant
7 reviews in English
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Review from Richard B.
Beeton, ON
4/3/2012
This is one of the best restaurants you will ever eat at. Not just because you never leave hungry but you never leave feeling that you ever had a better meal. We have a small group from the Beeton R/C Flyers that eat there every Friday and we look forward to every Friday. I know of many other people that have tried Hot Stacks and they all agree it's the best.
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Review from susan c.
2/18/2010 2 photos
There are only two kinds of breakfast/brunch I will eat:
(a) stuff I cannot make at home and will gladly pay a lot of money for someone else to (Hoof Cafe)
(b) stuff I can make at home but it's good and cheap enough that I don't want to (The Lancer)
Hot Stacks falls into category (b).
The standard breakfast costs just $5.95. When our waitress came with my order, my eyes nearly bugged out of their sockets.The plate was loaded with the following:
- 3 (three!) sunny side-up eggs with intensely orange, fresh yolks as perky as teenage boobies
- 4 (four!) thick strips of bacon
- a mound of home fries enough to feed an Irish family
- 2 fat slices of very, very light rye toast, heavily buttered
- a fruit kabob on the side because they're a little bit classy like that
While the eggs and bacon were delicious, I found the potatoes too greasy and I couldn't finish them. Still, how can you complain with all that grub for $5.95? I tried a bite of sarah l's pancakes; they were as light and fluffy as a fleece Snuggie™. The banana bread French toast we ordered for the table had the moist texture of a luscious carrot cake with the added bonus of a griddled crust, sweetened with syrup.
The service at Hot Stacks in genuinely friendly--the kind of refreshing, small-town friendly that makes the hour-long drive out worthwhile just to get away from the stank-faced jadedness of Toronto servers. Our waitress not only endured sarah l's excessively detailed order addendum, she also came outside without a jacket and happily took two photos of our group in front of their Hot Stacks sign. Awesome lady server, you are the best!
Also, special mention goes to Chris P. for driving us all the way to Innisfil/Cookstown/Nowheresville even though he felt sick. Thanks, Chris P!Listed in: Brunch Is Overrated
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Review from Danielle E.
Toronto, ON
2/13/2010
You can't really go wrong with eggs, toast, home fries and coffee, you can however go right! The key to success has been fried up and served hot on every platter.
Starting with the very affordable $4.95 for my eggs and plus ones, I was shocked to see not two but three farm fresh eggs crowded in by two potatoes worth of home fries, and flanked by a hefty skewer of daily fruit. While this plate was something I had seen before, the french toast was not.
I just have four words...banana bread french toast.
Bring on the hicks and farmers, if i could eat this every day I might even move to the burbs and sign away my independence. While both cakey and tasty, it was also light moist and stuffed with walnuts. Topped with hefty portions of fresh whip, and toasted bananas. It surely made my weekend.
While I am not a meat eater, the bacon and sausage looked fresh and delicious, and the moans of pleasure floating around the table made me believe in love.
I took away a star, due to the fact that my arteries are still chugging noticeably slower, and I love good food that doesn't depend solely on copious amounts of butter. I sit here writing this almost uncomfortably full, and I didn't even finish every lovely morsel.
Bottom line...bring a couple friends for the ride and it is worth every minute.Listed in: I've got a crush on you...I've…
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Review from Chris P.
Have you eaten the best pancakes of your life? Are you sure? I can tell you that you haven't because you haven't been to Hot Stacks. The hot stacks here are light and fluffy with a soft crunchy exterior. At Hot Stacks you get good value for your money. For under $10 you get a heaping plate of food and a drink.
There are an unlimited number of items on the menu and everything brought to the table will wow you. As our server Sarah commented, "The pancakes should be called 'Oh my god pancakes' because that's what everyone says when we bring them to the table".
The service was great. Our server Sarah was genuine and friendly, and not in that "I'm really friendly because I want a big tip" sort of way. In addition to the table service, when we asked if she would take a picture of our group in front of the sign outside she gladly obliged. Talk about going above and beyond.
Hot Stacks is definitely worth the hour or less drive from Toronto.Listed in: My Favourite Reviews, Egg-celent Breakfast, Alliston, ON
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Review from Jill C.
North York, ON
Great breakfast if you happen to be in the area or passing by as I was through Cookstown! I had the strawberry/banana waffle, YUMMY! The waffle was actually hot unlike a lot of breakfast joints, I finally had a waffle that I enjoyed and was hot and fresh! I fell in love so easily.
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Review from sarah l.
2/15/2010 1 Check-in Here
I truly believe that I tasted the best Pancakes of my life in Cooksville Ontario. I had the Lumberjack special which is (for like, $8!): three eggs, toast, hashbrowns, 2 bacon, 2 sausage and 2 pancakes. I feel like coffee might have been extra but I don't recall or really care for the insane-value of $8 for pounds of food which literally came on three separate plates.
On my first visit to a new brunch spot I always order the regular breakfast. It's a strategic play - using subjective, survey-like data I evaluate brunch vs. brunch in as apples to apples a way as one can. Only on a rare occasion will I add a flapjack and only if it's part of a lumberjack offering. I am so unbelievably glad that I upgraded at Hot Stacks.
What I'm looking for in a bacon and eggs breakfast is a perfectly soft poached egg, crispy bacon and amazing hashbrowns. I'm even open to different types of hashbrowns, as long as they're amazing.
The good:
- The food was really good all around:
(a) Thick, crispy bacon.
(b) Good hashbrowns - the look of them had me worried but they turned out to be soft on the inside and crispy on the outside. They needed ketchup for sure.
(c ) Banana bread french toast - exactly what you think it is; topped with whipped cream and icing sugar.
(d) The pancakes. I liked everything about them. Their texture and density, their flavour and customization options, their circular butter patties and their sprinkling of icing sugar. Best pancakes I have ever had.
- The staff were amazing. They took our picture, joked around with us and even gave asked us if the 5 of us wanted separate bills!
- It was busy inside but there were lots of free tables - doubt you would ever have to wait
- There is a super cool sign on the rural road leading to Hot Stacks that says "Hot Stacks, Right at the lights!" painted on a giant board
The bad:
- The people at the table next to us were gross. The woman coughed without covering her mouth for their entire meal and when her son got up to use the restroom, instead of getting up off the shared bench seat that lined the back wall to let him pass, she sat on Chris P's lap and coughed in his face while the kid shimmied past instead.
- It's very far away.
- The coffee-boy approaches like he is in a zombie movie. Monotone: "would you like some more coffee," (stands over you awkwardly).
I will definitely go here again. We should organize a semi-annual UYE road trip to Hot Stacks in Cooksville and the Lancer in Niagara twice a year.
Big thanks to Chris P for putting this one together and for driving us!
*EDIT: i just noticed that it's actually in Cookstown and not in Cooksville but I'm not going to correct it in my review because it just proves how far away it is. I don't even know where it is, it's so far.Listed in: Breakfasts
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Review from Kat F.
Absurdly good breakfast spot that's worth the drive to Cookstown! Perfectly poached eggs, inventive fruit skewer and delightful home fries - I fell in love for just $4.95 a plate!
