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Skylight Restaurant
Categories: Restaurants Breakfast & Brunch Restaurants Diners Breakfast & Brunch, Diners [Edit]
1012 Commercial DrVancouver, BC V5L 3W9
Neighbourhoods: Grandview-Woodlands, The Drive
(604) 251-3808
6 reviews for Skylight Restaurant
6 reviews in English
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Review from Carly B.
Vancouver, BC
4/7/2011
The Skylight has to be my favourite greasy spoon. Beats Bons any day.
The restaurant is always pretty full, but I've never had to wait for a table. The service is always quick and friendly. I've had the chicken friend rice (ohemgee, the portions!) and a few of the different breakfast specials. All tasty and all will cure your hangover. Price is great, for two people you can get a big breakfast and coffee for under $20.
And I love the dishes! So kitch! -
Review from Renee P.
Vancouver, BC
10/26/2011
I have spent many a breakfast-time here, and a few dinners too. I love going there by myself. The breakfasts are decnet - greasy but cheap enough and they don't mind if you hang around and read, do homework, etc. The salt content of the hashbrowns started to get to me, though-- it always tastes the same. I can't go there as much.
Still, it's a neighborhood favorite: a cheap, cozy spot to get your grease on. -
Review from Jessica O.
Vancouver, BC
7/19/2010 1 Check-in Here
As a self-proclaimed brunch glutton, I often choose places with fancy bennies and strong drinks, places I would also go for supper. But when money is tight or the hangover is too fierce, I head to Skylight.
I grew up on the Drive mere blocks away, and have been going here since I was a teen. Though I only go in a few times a year now, the lovely waitress remembers EXACTLY what I want (down to how I like my eggs and toast), and that I like hotsauce, and that I use milk rather than cream. It's eerie.
Simple, plain greasy spoon fare abounds, and the eggs are cooked perfectly to order and the hashbrowns are greasy, green onion-y and wonderful.
Brekkie is so cheap that I always leave a hefty tip and stroll out with a smile on my face. Not fancy, but clean and cheap and tasty! -
Review from Simon R.
BC
11/21/2008 1 photo
Good old skylight. The last of the once-popular roadside diners, Skylight offers cheap breakfast with all the expected combinations. Greasy and unpretentious, many consider it a good clean hangover cure, if eggs and bacon do it for you and you hate washing the fat from the pan afterwards.
It's small and underrated, but quaint and quiet. Couple of chairs and tables outside, and of course booths and somewhat sticky countertops inside. The key word again is cheap, with bottomless coffee that will require both cream and sugar.
Like most decrepit under-decorated diners, it also offers good deals on Chinese food lunch specials as well. A good place to go if you don't feel like running into someone you know. -
Review from Rickie G.
Vancouver, BC
8/19/2009
I've spent many many many times having cheap all day breakfast here. I keep returning almost weekly because the food is yummy and dirt cheap! The only thing I don't like about the place is some of the weird customers that can be really rude to the lovely server. I don't think the poor lady has had a day off in like 5 years. I crave the eggs benny and will venture across the city after moving out of the neighbourhood to have breakie on the drive. This place really in a little gem.
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Review from Terry P.
Vancouver, BC
9/30/2010
This is one of my all time favorite places to get breakfast, in Vancouver or anywhere. I've been eating here since 2001 when I first moved to Vancouver and lived in the neighborhood. Super cheap and good greasy. Same staff have been working there forever and they are very friendly. I haven't lived near commercial drive for a long time, but I keep going back every now and then and the server lady always remembers my usual order. I've have various things on the menu over the years, but my usual is the basic breakfast with Ukranian sausage. They have my favorite "diner coffee" too. Not sure what brand of coffee it is, but you know that cheap, crappy coffee that a diner will have that every once in a while just works so well with what you're eating? That exists here. A friend of mine swears they have the best clubhouse sandwich and he's a connoisseur of the clubhouse. The chinese food is apparently really good too, but honestly I've always only had breakfast. The Commercial drive neighborhood is a shit-hole these days, but even the hippies, sketchy vagrants, inconsiderate assholes jay-walking right in the middle of traffic and endless parade of smugness won't deter me from getting one of the best breakfasts ever.
