OVER EASY, Toronto

208 Bloor Street W

Toronto

(416) 922 2345

So Harry and I have finally gotten our acts together and started reviewing again.  

Today's stop was Over Easy on Bloor Street.  It's across from the Rom, between St. George and Museum stations.  Warm and cozy, you're greeted quickly at Over Easy with first the quiet atmosphere and then by a table and a full pot of coffee - to keep at your table.  Definitely a reason in itself to love this place.

Many of the breakfast choices are inventive and different from what you'll find in most other egg and bacon places.  Eggs baked in cheese sauce, or eggs poached in port with pearl onions.  Interesting choices.

I had the Eggs mushroom and cheese sauce since the waitress pooh-poohed my original choice, and Harry had the standard Big Breakfast.  We both got freshly squeezed OJ that was very, very good.  

My breakfast was too rich and indulgent for my tastes, but a change from what I'd usually go for and a welcomed change at that.  Harry liked his as well, but wasn't fond of the scrambled eggs.  My ultimate pet peeve reared it's peevey head at me in the form of uncooked eggs under all that thick salty sauce.  

The portions were very large and the service was nice and not overbearing at all.

Harry and I may have been slightly generous with this place but we gave it at 7.5/10.  Coffee and a friendly staff can go a long way sometimes.

Fran's Diner, College & Yonge, Toronto

Before heading into work, my friend Greg and I made our way to Fran's Diner.  This place has a couple locations in Toronto, the Yonge Street location arguably being the most famous, but lacking the style or cleanliness of the location nearby the Eaton Center.

One thing I love about Fran's is that their standard bacon & eggs dish is awesome.  They buy a pre-made hashbrown that's deep fried (a brand that I've actually come to recognize at several Toronto breakfast joints) but still very tasty.  Their eggs are usually spot-on and the bacon is as thick as it is salty.

Harry joined us soon after and ordered french toast, which oddly took 3x as long as ours did and seemed to greatly inconvenience our server.  After stopping just short of needing a megaphone to get her attention for more coffee, we decided to just leave.

Hard rating this time, because it's like we had 2 breakfasts back to back.  Mine and Greg's was great, but averaged out with Harry's experience, Fran's gets a surprising 5/10.