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Reader's Pick for Best Breakfast - 2009
NOW magazine
This intimate café, an offspring of other Mitzi's ventures, is hidden north of Queen Street on residential Sourauren Avenue, a few blocks east of Roncesvalles. Although long known by locals, it has recently become quite popular as a destination point for weekend antique treasure hunters along Queen Street’s Antique Avenue. They offer up scrumptious Eggs Benny, and delicious, huge waffles with fresh fruits and creams. Most menu items are around the $10 range, but leave you feeling pleasantly full. As the place only holds 20 people, with another 6 on the patio in the summer, expect to wait for a seat most of the time. Bottomless cups of coffee are great. Open morning until mid-afternoon.
MARTINIBOYS.com
Vintage ’50s Formica tables, a salvaged church pew and mismatched chairs seat locals cheek-by-jowl in this tiny purple and yellow room with well-worn hardwood floors and a homey open kitchen. During a busy brunch, two poached eggs on cornmeal pancakes with red pepper and goat cheese sauce are perfectly runny; the pancakes are nicely sweet, although crunchy in spots and a bit dry. Ditto the accompanying baby potatoes, which have nice paprika heat but are parched and wrinkled. The red pepper–goat cheese sauce is a rich, tangy departure from the standard hollandaise. One and a half thick slices of French toast arrive golden, fluffy and topped with incongruous sliced pear and a rustic, seed-crunchy raspberry sauce. Portions are generous, the service casual, the coffee decent.
TORONTOLIFE.com
Few things are as sad as poorly done eggs. Thankfully, at Mitzi's they are cooked to the French model (i.e., not cooked rubber). These eggs are light, fluffy and moist. Typically served with palate stimulating flavours like aged cheeses and chipotle peppers. With chow like this everyone can agree breakfast really is the most important meal of the day.
CityBites · Toronto's Guide to Great Food & Drink
Brunch review: Show up very early – 9:15 am, say – if you expect to score a funky 50s formica-topped table in this kid-friendly café off Parkdale’s main drag without waiting in a long line. Now in its second decade, the cramped storefront may often be chaotic, but its legion of loyal fans – that’s them in the queue – like it like that.
Best: constantly rotating card of eggy things like thick challah French toast dolloped with ripe strawberries and whipping cream, sided with herbed home fries and brunch garnish; perfectly poached eggs over wilted spinach chiffonade; maple-syruped lemon-poppyseed pancakes tossed with pecans; for the rug rats, plain scrambled eggs.
NOW magazine