Toronto Restaurants

Full of eggcitement

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

...You would be forgiven for overlooking Eggspectation, although it is rather large and located on Yonge Street near the Eaton Centre, pretty much in the heart of downtown Toronto. With its tinted windows, a passer-by would easily think that the establishmen ...

Delicate_Orchid 23.07.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Eggspectation, Toronto

Eggceptional

Advantages: Eggceptional choice and value for money
Disadvantages: None

We found ourselves with a short wait to be seated but given the central location and since it was the middle of the film festival that was hardly surprising... But it was worth the short wait. We were greeted and promptly seated towards the back of ...

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Review of Eggspectation, Toronto

What's in a name?

Advantages: variety of food, relaxing atmosphere, huge booths
Disadvantages: Oreo cheesecake

The Pickle Barrel was never really a place that appealed to me, simply because its name does not exactly convey the most enticing foods imaginable. Even though it is widely advertised in Canada, I never once set foot across their doors. On our recent visi ...

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Review of The Pickle Barrel, Toronto

What a pickle

Advantages: Wide choice of menu
Disadvantages: wide choice of menu

We weren't immediately drawn by the name but the sight of food being delivered to a table near the window and delicious food smells emanating from this restaurant soon won us over. We entered and were met by a greeter who showed us to a booth table, ...

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Review of The Pickle Barrel, Toronto

Good value for Downtown Toronto

Advantages: Amazing decor and unique environment.
Disadvantages: A bit pricier than other pubs in the chain.

...One of the truly wonderful achitectural sights in Toronto has to be the building that houses the Flatiron and Firkin pub. It is one of the narrowest buildings in the city (just recently eclipsed by an office/condominium development down the street), and h ...

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Review of Flatiron and Firkin, Toronto