You suck. My partner and I decided we’d go for a lovely Sunday brunch at your establishment. Never again! We arrived at 12:20pm and were greeted in a lovely manner, things were going well. Our drinks arrived promptly, things still going well. We order basic brunch items (eggs Benedict and an omelette) – as most intelligent humans know, neither of these items take that long to cook. 45 minutes later our food arrives. 45 minutes! This is not okay. I would understand if you were busy, but there were only seven other people in your entire restaurant. I actually counted because I was soooo angry and, of course, had the time. When the food arrived (with no apology on the wait time), our food was overcooked, dry and disgusting…and they forgot my toast until I asked for the bill. Neither of us ate half our meals. I paid $50 of my own hard-earned mulah on that brunch. I shouldn’t have been polite, I should have told your staff where your chefs and management can shove it. You have lost food-loving, local-spending customers. —Never Again
This article appears in Jul 12-18, 2012.
IF you did pay $50 for brunch: are you fucking retarded? An egg costs at most 25 cents apiece, 50 cents for bacon, 10 cents a toast, 50 cents for hash brown (basic breakfast items). Less than $2 for a plate, so we’ll say 5$ for both plates; and you paid 10 times that?
This is exactly the reason I don’t go out for breakfast foods (even other meals are debatable).
You do realize that for a little more than $50, you could have had a nice meal at a steakhouse a larger than a 2-4?
Paying for your meal without complaining, and using “eating only half your meals” as your form of silent protest is just stupid. Nut up, tell them your meal sucks, pay for your drinks and leave. You could have saved face, and 40 bucks to pay for a delicious meal elsewhere, now you just sound like a whiny tool.
Not “retarded” as you say, thanks (also not a fan of douches who use that word). I’m happy to spend money on a really good brunch when I don’t have to cook it and it’s delicious, I enjoy helping the local economy. You are correct though, my money on a steak would have been better spent. Fine if you don’t like going out for breakfast foods, many of us out there do.
Dude, aka “Stephen Harper is the Devil”, this is love the way we bitch. Check-it – You’re a tool!
I didn’t pay 50 bucks for sub par food. You pay a restaurant for food YOU deem acceptable, if it’s overcooked and tastes bad, send it back to be replaced. If you bought any other product, and it turned out to be less than advertised, would you keep it and complain? No, you’d return it (exchange for another, or, for a refund) wouldn’t you. YOU ARE THE CUSTOMER, AS A SERVICE BASED BUSINESS, THEY ARE THERE TO PLEASE YOU. If you leave dissatisfied, you have noone to blame but yourself. I believe you are the tool.
The whole point of “brunch” is to go out for a relaxing meal and spending time with your dinner companion ….. there is no rush ….. if you wanted it in a jiffy perhaps a McFatwhich would have sufficed.
Also, if the meal was inedible then you had every right to let them know immediately so they could then take care of the situation but you decided not to do that and they put the appropriate charges on your bill ……. looks like you ended up with egg on your face over this one.
Glad to hear you are not that, just very free with your money. I hope you have a lot of disposable income, no sense in getting in debt just to have an overpriced breakfast.
If there were issues with the meal then the restaurant should be notified promptly. You know, quality control and all that. Nobody should suffer through a sub-par meal especially at that price. Too bad your brunch was ruined but take it up with whomever is in charge, your bill could have been significantly less.
Emilise, you wrote a review in the restaurant section, right? You can name, names there.
$50 for a brunch for two, I probably would have balked at those prices (but I’m a cheap bastard and a good cook).
3/4 of a hour wait for eggs, totally unacceptable. On Grafton St. by chance?
I agree with the others, you should have said something at the time…or just paid for your drinks and left.
I always hate it when they don’t ask how I want my eggs…
’cause I always assume it’s going to be soft and it never is.
who wants a hard poached egg in their benny?
yak!
day 1 of learning to cook is preparing an egg FFS.
it’s so sad when I go somewhere and they can’t even get that right.
on the other hand… unless you both got hammered during brunch, how the hell did you manage to spend 25 bucks a plate on eggs benny?
that’s just ludicrous.
(PS, bundy forgot a bunch of other ingredients… ham, english muffin, butter for the hollundaise… but they still don’t add up anywhere near that much. where the hell are you getting a bacon eggs benny from?)
mel likes hard, you like soft, i like medium
Bacon on a benny doesn’t sound appetising to me.Iit’s supposed to be cured ham.
“mel likes hard, you like soft, i like medium”
Thank you PG. You are my second favorite regular.
“I just sit there and stuff a hard Benny in my mouth”
😀
giggety, pg….gigg-ah-ty! 😉
mel’s weird.
if you’re gonna cook em to hard, you might as well make deviled eggs outta them.
and I suppose I’d consider back bacon…
Boru, with all respect to you and other eggs benny ‘purists’, you can put practically ANYTHING on eggs benny. (Salmon, lobster, prosciutto, chicken, I’ve even tried brie and mushroom and it was outstanding!)
Dammit! I’m hungry now.
mmm, deviled eggs, scotch eggs, eggs florentine lllaaarrrggghhh
and I agree with zZz…the yolk has GOT to be runny…gets all mixed up with the hollandaise and you can sop it up with the english muffin…(drool!!) It’s just not the same.
K, I gotta go get some lunch.
ooohhh, Scotch eggs are sooooo good. (Sooooo bad for you but sooooo good)
Go hard or go home. Maybe it’s because I’m a terribly slow eater, but sauce plus runny egg equals bread-y mush with back bacon in the middle. I like to take bites of the egg, not have it mix in with everything, otherwise I should just get them to blend it up for me and I’ll take intravenously.
this has hard boiled eggs, looks good http://recipeideashopblog.files.wordpress.…
Oooh look at that innovation! I’d eat dat.
On Diners, Drive ins and Dives, they showed a place in Montreal that had cheese curds on the bottom, a layer of hand cut fries, smoked meat gravy, another layer of curds, more fries and topped off with several slices of smoked meat and then gravy…….it looked great, now that I’d pay $25 for.
Poutine Montreal style.
Admittedly, that DOES look good. Kind of like the Atkins version, i.e. no English muffin.
IDK, though, just not the same, in my eyes.
not at all…
It could be called Eggs MelBenny. (kinda has an interesting ring to it.. almost sounds like a city in Australia)
not for me though…
I’ll take that ‘bread-y mush’ any day…
though when that’s in front of me I tend to scarf so it doesn’t ever get to that point.
I don’t eat much and don’t like left over’s so I don’t cook often.Now I’m hungry.
Swartz’s Delli in Montreal was over priced but if your hankerin’ for some salty smoked meat on bread you’d pay.
there are many good cooks amongst our posse, i like the knives^^
I like my eggs as hard as Stedman’s dick. dammit, now I’m all wet!!!
hmm, my spidey sense is tingling
My Stedman’s get all wet when I think of Stedman.
Fuck this Emilise83 cunt. SHITD was spot on.
you never wanna go to bev’s diner in stewiacke then. that place takes forever to get your grub, and it tastes so good, that you don’t mind the wait, and even tip pretty good too. i eat there all the time, when hunting up there, and will continue to do so. is this a complaint, maybe part is, but the food will oversway that minor bitch, anyday. by the way, it’s all home grown, and hand made from scratch, even the bread they use.
Emilise83-Your a stupid bitch that’s out $50 and all you got was shit on and a bad meal…TOOL
LS if you go a little further down the road and into Truro, drop in at Fletchers, it’s full of old gimmers and that’s always a good sign. Everything is home made and the dessert pies are worth the drive.
Ahhhh!!! the forever, TYPICAL Haligonian. Why is it that; those who work so hard for their money, are willing to throw it out blindly; why is it that when you pay for a “SERVICE” you are willing to accept substandards; why is it that you complain only when in the confines of your home or away from the source that ticked you off in the first place…voice your opinion; voice your displeasure, it will make MY experience so much better!!!
buddy who posted please man calm down it’s only eggs,lol heck at any grocery store two bucks and maybe abit more, ,lol i’ll paypal u the $50 to mellow u out Son, mean while i’m try to reunite with anne who is slowly dieing from health issue and got to worry about some fuckin eggs,lol buddy LEASE, , if u r a good sould of a peroson you will share my love the way we love story on your twitter and facebook and help it go viral, june 25th, 2012 is the entry date it was posted, bless you, and yours, and hope you can find a decent brunch place, j ramone
Wait…. you have a partner AND fiddy bone to blow on stupid eggs? Yeah FUCK YOU! You don’t deserve my pity, firstworld fuckhole.