Cora

Advantages: superb menu, great waffles, good service
Disadvantages: outside patio, poor French toast on our visit

...***History*** Cora Mussely Tsouflidou, the founder of Cora's restaurants, was born in Caplan, a little village in the Gaspé peninsula. Cora always had a passion for fine art, but her father wanted her to become a secretary. Fate intervened in Cora's life. Although she enrolled in college to pursue her father's dreams rather than her own, she soon discovered that she was pregnant with her first child and quit college during her final year to take ...
...her ten years later, leaving Cora a single mother with three children to support. Cora worked extremely hard as a hostess in a well-known Montreal restaurant, learning the trade and climbing the ladder all the way to manager and junior partner. In 1986, Cora suffered a burn-out and had to resign from her position and sell all her shares. In May 1987, Cora bought a little snack-bar in Montreal. Within only a few months, Cora transformed the snack ... Read review

Advantages: Very pleasant university city twinned with Cambridge
Disadvantages: None

...of excellent restaurants - in particular try to pay a visit to the Gory restaurant in Liszt street - where the helpings are so huge that I defy anyone to finish them in one sitting! The 'waste not, want not' Hungarian philosophy is typified at the Gory since you can request at no extra cost for the leftovers from your meal to be presented to you as you leave on a cardboard plate covered by metal foil which you can take home and finish at your leisure! Being a university city (twinned with Cambridge) with a total student population of ten to twelve thousand who fill the streets and squares of the inner city, the place has a really friendly and safe feel about it ,even late at night. There is an extremely good and cheap public transport system of buses and trams and many good shops and large supermarkets such as Tesco, Cora and Metro. Places well... Read review

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Advantages: good speciality breakfast dishes, generous drink sizes
Disadvantages: slow service during busy times, ambience and decor

...on my plate. The eggs were delicious, warm and just of the right consistency - nor too runny to cause worries of salmonella, not to overcooked to feel like you are eating a hardboiled egg. The eggs were accompanied by sliced grilled potatoes, probably the best potatoes I had during my stay in Toronto. By contrast, my other half's plate was bursting to the seams with three large American style pancakes, which he was absolutely pleased about and simply could not finish. The only minor complaint he had was in relation to the amount of strawberries topping the delightful amount of dough - after having experienced the mountains of fruit served at Cora's, it simply did not live up to our "eggspectations". On our second visit to Eggspectation, we were seated much quicker and found the place to be a lot more empty. This time, I ordered a freshly... Read review

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