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Bonjour Brioche
Bonjour Brioche, at the corner of Queen East and Degrassi Streets is a favourite neighbourhood spot serving breakfast, lunch and weekend brunch. Lines snake out the door on weekends as brunch-goers wait their turn for delicious eggs benny, fresh baguettes and, of course, brioche.
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The portions are small, but the food is fresh. I had a chocolate croissant (yummy) and yogurt with fruit and granola. My friend had the eggs benny which she said were good, but also small portions.
<a href="http://foodhogger.wordpress.com/2007/04/08/bonjour-brioche/";>Foodhogger's full review here</a>
If you are, however, intersted in waiting on line for 45 minutes, being berated for asking questions of the servers (or worse the owner) looking around to see and be seen, waiting 20 minutes for a coffee, and then rushed through your small serving so you can then be rushed out the door, then you'll love it.
The only person who would return would be someone without a clue as to what toronto has to offer, or a tourist.
Shame, as it was not always like this...or maybe it was.
Overrated, and OVER.
keep on driv'n.
If you're interested in lovely coffee, perhaps with a nibble of lovingly prepared tartes, omelets, quiche, pastry, brioche or a baguette slathered in the owner's Mum's jam? ...& the crisp salad with true house dressing... ?
...then you can't find much better than a little table @ BB where they truly care about preparing a realistic portion of high quality & fabulous tastiness.
I've met several people over coffee while sitting and chatting at BB. Some really lovely people can be found working & enjoying the atmosphere during the slower periods.
Yes, its noisy (blame the self-important, demon-spawn of yuppies who never learned how to behave in public, much less table manners!)
Yes, it has long lineups if you get there late... find the lineups irritating?... you can also blame the restaurant patrons who plunk themselves in the way, bang into chairs & make petulant noises about waiting... then 'get even with the World' by hogging tables long after its polite to linger when others are waiting to share in the yummy.
BB is popular & busy because the food is fantastic. No, I don't blame BB for their popularity.
but... I blame the pockets of customers who haven't 2 clues how to behave as if anyone else mattered but themselves.
I'd eat there more often, but there's always at least one badly-behaved of my fellow Torontonians who makes it less appealing... & who treat the staff to the worst of their frenetic discontent.
If you don't like BB: you probably brought the misery with you to spread around.
Brunch in Toronto is busy. Any place with even a whiff of popularity will have a line-up.
I have never found their portions to be stingy. The food is dense and rich to begin with anyway (quiche, savoury tarts, croque monsieur, meatloaf sandwich). And I've never, ever felt rushed.
Some of the waitstaff are calm, some harried; whatever. I don't boycott the TTC because of one or ten bitchy ticketbooth operators. It just wouldn't be prudent.
The baguette alone is reason enough to return, if my tastebuds didn't insist I do so for all the other food as well.
even ruder cashier today- pity.