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Sunset Grill
Categories: Restaurants Diners Restaurants Breakfast & Brunch Diners, Breakfast & Brunch [Edit]
1 Richmond St WToronto, ON M5H 3W4
Neighbourhood: Downtown Core
(416) 861-0514
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Breakfast
- Alcohol:
- No
- Ambience:
- Casual
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
24 reviews for Sunset Grill
Review Highlights
"Their omlettes and eggs benny are recommended."
(in 12 reviews)
"...are great, and their french toast will put you into a..."
(in 3 reviews)
"And the bottomless pot of GOOD coffee is always a plus."
(in 9 reviews)
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24 reviews in English
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Review from Nick B.
Halifax, NS
3/18/2011 1 Check-in Here
Sunset Grill knows what they're doing. It really is that simple. Fast, friendly service. I was in for breakfast on Pancake Tuesday, so I think they were doing even more brisk business than normal selling $1 pancakes for the Canadian Cancer Society.
We got seated quickly, and had an attentive, but not pushy server who wanted to know what we wanted and to get it out to us quickly. Lots of visits to check on coffee refills, too. You really can't ask for much more. They have a pretty extensive menu of options, and pretty reasonable prices. Great way to cap off this trip to Toronto. -
Review from Eleanor V.
North York, ON
8/30/2011 1 Check-in Here
This specific location was not that great in my opinion. Of all days that I wanted to try a new place for brunch this is not a great day for me. I really was hankering for some eggs benny for a while. And to my surprise this specific Sunset Grill isn`t the place to get it.
I'm used to my eggs benedict with poached eggs. They served them with sunny side up? I was confused. Maybe it was my hopeful/wishful thinking and didn't read the description to the Eggs Sunset properly but I was pretty disappointed to receive it. On top of that I felt rushed. Busers just took plates on hand after they asked us if we were done... Of course being rushed didn't get our bill for 20 minutes... yeah. I don't get it.
Less to say I'm not going to this specific Sunset Grill ever. I'll stick to what I already know down town even if I have to walk an extra 10 blocks. -
Review from David M.
Toronto, ON
6/14/2011
Standard Sunset Grill - good breakfast done cheap...but this location has no soul.
It's a big, open place that caters to business people and tourists distinguished thusly - the business people were on their Blackberrys while the tourists were on their iPhones.
Our waitress was friendly enough but a tad slow on the coffee.
This is a safe bet if you're in the area craving a quick, standard breakfast, but if it's your first Sunset Grill, I'd recommend the one in the Beach.Listed in: Breakfast places, Diners, Greasy Spoons and…
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Review from Lauren M.
Toronto, ON
3/22/2011
I don't want to hate but honestly not my favourite place to go for breakfast.
I was there this past sunday and we had to wait forever for our food and it wasn't very good. I've been to the Sunset Grill in Blue Mountain a few times as well and don't ever enjoy it.
However, I have to say they're fairly priced...weekdays especially they have very cheap breakfasts! -
Review from Blair M.
12/13/2011 1 Check-in Here
really not worth the wait or money when you have much better breakfast options in the area. 1 trip to this place was enough for me, going a 2nd time was a mistake by me.
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Review from Velshin C.
Toronto, ON
8/25/2010
Mediocre food at relatively cheap prices.
We ate:
Spinach and swiss omelette, leathery and unevenly cooked.
Waffles, soggy and overwhelmed by egginess.
Home fries, crumbly with the burnt bits slipping off and the good bits hard to find.
We paid:
$16 before tip.
Environment is roughly like a diner but without anything special going on. You could be at a rural truck stop or in the middle of NYC and nothing about the place would tell you where.
If you need cheap breakfast cooked for you, drop by. Otherwise, cook your own or hit up another breakfast restaurant. -
Review from Tong J.
7/2/2010
As a caveat, this review is for the Queen St East location, near Kew Beach.
At first it looked inviting, service was friendly and quick. However, the ventilation is not great and there is a haze of smoke that permeates everything. We ordered the spicy omelette and the spicy frittata, with the latter having only egg whites. Both arrived with very large chunks of tomatoes and jalepeno peppers which made the egg dishes wet and unappetizing.
On the positive side, the portions were generous and the coffee was decent. -
Review from Kat F.
9/30/2009
Truly a cookie cutter "diner style" breakfast experience from location to location. I'm in love with SG's hash browns but the eggs are always too soft/undercooked - a case of the loosies is practically guaranteed so don't stray too far from a bathroom while your body digests.
Dirt cheap. -
Review from Moritz H.
Toronto, ON
7/22/2011
Good breakfast. Good service
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Review from Melissa F.
Toronto, ON
3/16/2010
Cheap breaky alert!
How can you NOT love this place" they have an early morning special where you can get a full breakfast for UNDER 5$
It's a great location for something quick in the midst of financial district and close to the mall.
free refill coffee- which I always expect with restaurants but sometimes they don't offer, or the servers aren't attentive to the fact that my blood only circulates when it has 75% caffeine content
oh yes, and once i brought a friend over (yeah that's right..i suually like to have breakfast alone) and he was attempting to pick out some options and rearrange to get the optimal breakfasy combo- the server said, "no, you probably don't want to do that" and THEN suggested the EXACT same combination of food but in a CHEAPER way- "this way you save money!" she said.
How can you NOT love it when the server WANTS to save you money on a 5 buck breakfast?
Yes, I love it here. -
Review from Tom L.
Toronto, ON
10/14/2011
Slim pickings for good standard breakfast food in the downtown area. This place has been my go-to when in the area. Like the coffee and Western sandwiches.
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Review from Amy D.
3/30/2011
I am a big fan of Sunset Grill, especially their location in The Beaches. We came to Toronto the other day without knowing that the subway line was down, which forced us to stay in the downtown core. Luckily we spotted a Sunset Grill right away and we went their without hesitation. It was a Sunday morning so we expected it to be busy. We got seated almost right away, I give their host props, he was very efficient. Sunset grill has a breakfast special during the week, but since we were there on the weekend, the special is a few dollars more. We each ordered the 3 egg special with bacon and potatoes for $6.95. The potatoes were hot and well seasoned, the bacon was plentiful but a tad salty and the eggs and toast were great. Our server was very informative and genuine. I would definitely come back the next time i am in Toronto.
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Review from Min min T.
Scarborough, ON
11/1/2009
Ah, the omnipresent all-day-breakfast diner. What better place to come here after getting out of bed at 1 pm on a Sunday?
I've always had a weakness for eggs florentine and the version at Sunset is what you should expect at a greasy spoon. Mmmm, the rich yolk as it soaks into my English muffins. And you know it ain't good for you, but the Hollandaise here must be the saltiest and the oiliest I've ever had; it practically sticks to your arteries.
And the homefries, the homefries. Salty, cripsy, white starch. I do love you despite what good nutrition says. You are small, bite-sized and cooked perfectly so that they crumble lightly in the mouth.
Definitely a secret guilty pleasure. -
Review from Nandan F.
Ottawa, ON
10/12/2010
I went to this place for breakfast twice over the last week. It is fun to have breakfast on the weekday while watching people to scurry off to work. The location is spacious and well lit. Great place for a cheap breakfast in downtown. The portions are huge and the food is excellent. Their omlettes and eggs benny are recommended. And the bottomless pot of GOOD coffee is always a plus!
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Review from Brian L.
9/9/2009
I'm giving this place 4 stars. I don't care about the other 2 people that gave it 3 stars.
I was walking around downtown Toronto Labor Day morning in search of a cafe with wifi. Sadly, this proved to be difficult, as the city seemed dead. I was still hopeful, but then pangs of hunger started to affect my vision. I was clawing at the sides of the buildings with the cafes that were closed. I happened to turn my head to the left while on Victoria Street (heading north), when I saw a mass of people outside this establishment. I trotted over (jaywalked too!), and put my name in for 1. I was seated quickly. I looked over the smallish menu, and decided on the "French Connection." Just coming ffrom Montreal, I thought this was fit, but in reality, I just wanted some French Toast with my eggs and bacon.
The drinks came with the meal (which I didn't care, some like it prior; also it was really busy), and it was very amazingly delicious. I had trouble typing it because I thought about the food as if I were eating it now. 5 strips of bacon, 2 scrambled eggs, a side of home fries, and 2 slices of French Toast. I was in heaven.
Maybe it was because I was hungrier than I have ever been (slight exaggeration?), maybe it was that there was no wifi and I couldn't distract myself from the taste, but it was good, and I ate it all.
For some reason, the food in Canada isn't cheap, I spent $17 Canadian here ($12 food, $5 tip [lot of tip, but what's the point of leaving 3 bucks?]). Usually this meal would've cost about $8 US. Whatever, I was happy, and the walk back to my hotel room was like walking in air. -
Review from Connie T.
Toronto, ON
1/12/2009
Sometimes I'm too tired to flip an egg on a Sunday morning. And so, if all I need to do for food is wake up, walk down the street, and miserably point to an item on a menu, I suppose that's pretty cool thing.
But sometimes I want more. A little creativity wouldn't hurt you, Sunset. And it offers much less than the same at hole-in-the-wall diners, costing a lil' more at the same time.
Despite that, it's an average breakfast joint, with basic breakfasts, and I have no real complaints. (Except: don't order the pancakes. They taste like they're made of flour, water, and nothing else.)
Although this branch is nowhere near as busy as the one in the Beaches, it still gets pretty busy. Probably because everyone else is like me and can think of better things to do than flip those eggs on a Sunday morning. -
Review from Martin y.
Toronto, ON
9/11/2010 9 Check-ins Here
Breakfast-for-lunch is a standby, each thursday, in my office and this place is our destination of choice. When the call for 'Bacon' echoes across the tops of the monitors, about eight of us shuffle down here for artery-clogging goodness.
They do a mean plate of hashbrowns, eggs and bacon or sausage. Their pancakes are great, and their french toast will put you into a blissful sugar coma.
Its my favourite way to take the edge off an expected afternoon meeting.
Make sure to plan for the gym later, for the cholesterol will kill you.
They do have an expansive menu, and serve more than the just bacon&eggs -- but I haven't tried most of it. One of my co-workers says they have a great burger. I wouldn't know :)
Also, infinite coffee is in direct supply and the waitstaff are friendly. -
Review from Victoria S.
Toronto, ON
2/11/2011
my parents love this place so they were dying to take me. i could see why they like it, but it wouldn't be my first choice.
first of all, i generally prefer to eat at a smaller restaurant rather than a chain, and secondly... the food was only o-kay. if everything was a dollar or two cheaper it would have been better.
the first time i had eggs florentine. the spinach was fresh but the hollandaise was thick and gooey and not at all appetizing. the second time i had an eggs/meat/potatos/toast breakfast (thinking maybe i should stick to a more simple item) and again it was below average. the sausage was overcooked and the butter on the toast smelled like cheese. (i wasn't smelling the toast, it was just so strong that i could smell it every time i took a bite)... that was kind of disturbing but i ate it anyway. i also don't like the option that you can have a 1 egg breakfast or a 3 egg breakfast. 2 egg breakfast costs the same as a 3 egg breakfast. that's silly! and annoying! and the fact that i can't remember what the home fries were like isn't a good sign.
anyway i will give them points for friendly service and frequent coffee refills. and having franks hot sauce. so.Listed in: brunch
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Review from Ana L.
8/12/2010 1 photo
I read about this place in one of the magazines at my hotel...one of the best breakfast places!!
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Review from Marie-Pier M.
Lachine, QC
7/17/2010
The fresh orange juice was so good. Big plates with reasonable prices.
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Review from Rich T.
Toronto, ON
11/27/2009
Solid breakfast spot. Get there early to avoid the weekend lineups. A bit pricey if you get premium items like fresh squeezed OJ or real maple syrup but all around one of the best breakfast spots around. +s: big portions, eggs bene, good service. -s: lineups if you're there after 10.
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Review from Amy M.
2/17/2010
Pretty good. It was the shortest walk from our hotel that was still serving breakfast at noon. I liked the potatoes. Not crazy about the ham. Delicious bagel and cream cheese. Eggs were, well, eggs. Oh, and chocolate milk :-)
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Review from Bonnie K.
3/12/2010
Craving breakfast mid day and stumbled upon this spot. Our server was very friendly and attentive. The food arrived quickly, in overly generous portions, and was absolutely delicious. I'd definitely recommend it.
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Review from Kashif S.
12/11/2009
same eggs and pancakes and waffles, and lil steaky bits for breakfast, same blackwater/coffee but if you ask me you can find better places, Zet's in mississauga, or even Dennys or Cora or the Grille, they're better and have better accommodations as well, I am 5'11'' so not the tallest person in the world but the chairs and tables were sort of cramping and cheap and uncomfy, the only good thing, pretty good french toast, i did like them and thats why the three stars otherwise it's just a two star.
