We got some great funky sass from our server (the owner’s sister) which always makes me smile. She fit into the décor well, which can be described as pseudo-hip-bohemian. I say pseudo because much of the art is advertising. There was a wall of excellent bread, and we got our selection of it for our breakfast. They had good coffee and Mighty Leaf tea, which is excellent. See picture for the Value Village tea pot which the server was almost irrationally worried about going missing.

We got 11 potato chunks each (I counted), three pieces of bacon and two eggs. Everything was delicious and substantial. There was a painted sign from the Kohler days declaring the sausages to be “organic,” which was still accurate. Though they resembled breakfast links, TFW sausages were pleasantly tangy and juicy. The potatoes were basted and sprinkled with parsley. The two eggs came in a perfect circle, an aesthetic pleaser. We got “sunflower” bread which was extremely tasty and extremely heavy. A real pleaser, but unfortunately it came dry with butter packets on the side. By the time the second and third pieces were consumed, they had cooled and the butter didn’t melt on it. I like my toast to be have melty butter, thank-you! The dry toast and the fact that they didn’t have any hot sauce were the only two downsides to the actual meal.

In fact, the food didn’t really need the hot sauce. Our chief hot sauce fiend Chantal really enjoyed her meal, declaring that “hot sauce would ruin this omelette.”

All in all, this was an excellent meal in an unbelievably and inconveniently small restaurant. Chose your table carefully, don’t bring many people and remember pick up a loaf of bread on your way out!

Mighty Leaf tea is mighty good tea!

December 18 2010

French Way Café

Catering & Baking

612-B Academy Road

Hours of operation:

“Boring” Breakfast - $8.95

(as quoted from the server)

Formerly Café Kohler, The French Way hasn’t changed the décor one iota. The menu is similar but unique to the owner. Kohler didn’t serve potatoes, so I was happy to hear that TFW did. The restaurant is the tiniest we’ve been to so far, seating ten people maximum. A mirror on the wall helped it feel minutely bigger, but still, every time the door opened, the entire place got instantly too cold.

Our party of four sat at a table that must have come from a lawn furniture set. It was wooden, slatted and rickety. This proved problematic when the table was bumped and Chantal’s hot tea spilled in her lap through the slats. The other tables looked more stable.