“The same menu exactly,” promises Mary’s Place Cafe (2752 Robie Street, 454-2558) owner Ray Khouri about the second location of his popular joint. It will be found in the spot on Spring Garden formerly occupied by Brick Oven Pizzeria (5982 Spring Garden), which has closed. Khouri is in there now renovating, and plans to open the new location of his all-day-breakfast-vegan-vegetarian-middle-eastern palace before the students return, so in August, likely. It’s gonna be called Mary’s Place Cafe 2, in the style of all great sequels.
This article appears in Jul 1-7, 2010.
I can only hope the service is better at the first location than the second.
The waitress had me waiting 15minutes for a table, and then the manager rudely stated that he “refused to seat me at one of their tables for two” as a single, and went on to seat the people behind me.
An awful experience. I went back to the conference and strongly recommend people not eat there.