Brandon R.
Yelp
First impression was of the ambiance. It feels quite hipster and minimalist, which is fine if that's what you like, but each place you sit in the main area was quite exposed. I'm not a fan of this. I realize at breakfast joints, turnover is important, but still, I don't like it.
The staff were super friendly. My waitress was kind and attentive. I was seated in a timely fashion and given a menu.
Now, for the important part: the food.
I ordered a salmon benedict, which was $19, and did not come with hash browns or home fries/breakfast potatoes. Fine. If you produce elevated experiences with the mains, I get it. Because of this, I chose to also try the "Morning After", which is a separate dish.
The benedict: poached egg was overdone, more of a medium well, but the salmon cook was great. It was served on a bed of greens on each muffin. It's topped with a hollandaise. I'll be blunt, the hollandaise was bland and under-seasoned. The whole dish lacked flavour. The hollandaise was so thin that it just rolled onto the plate. It was difficult to get enough on subsequent bites of other aspects of the dish when trying to gather more of the flavour profile. I did at one point get a burst of mustard flavour, but this lasted a single bite or two. Finally the muffin. I'm unsure if this was due to it being an "organic" English muffin, but it was as if they did not toast the English muffin prior to plating. Cutting through it felt dohy and it tore under my knife as opposed to being cut.
Morning After: this dish looked awesome when it came out. An egg scramble with cheese, veggies and buffalo sausage over top of french toast? That just sounds like a flavour bomb. I hoped it would be after my benedict. Unfortunately, however, it fell flat as well; the entire dish was under-seasoned and gave, at best, a whisper of it's intended flavour profile. The only part of the dish with seasoning was the sausage. I could barely taste the vegetables, would have guessed they skipped on the cheese and experienced zero evidence of jalapenos in the dish. Overall, it was better than the benedict, but for the price point...? I have had more flavourful, more robust dishes from mom-pop shops that charge half the price on a consistent basis.
I'm overall quite disappointed. Irrespective of cost, the food was bland and mediocre. At their price point, they should be producing plates well above the level that they do. And for goodness sake, season your components!!!
It's almost like they're charging for the idea of what they're trying to create vs the product they actually do!!
I'll be searching for a different breakfast spot next time I'm in town.