Like many North-end restaurants, you gotta get your own coffee and order at the front. At least they served us at the table. The coffee was drinkable, but rather bland.

Their Breakfast Special was the BIGGEST Special we’d ever seen! Three eggs, six slices of bacon, and about a pound and a half of hashbrowns! Too bad none of it was very good. The eggs were fine, but the bacon was grill-marred and almost burnt, and the shredded potato hashbrowns were truly tasteless, and not in the good way like my humour.

Good thing they had a big bottle of Sambal Olek rooster hot sauce (cock sauce, as I call it) to spice things up. They threw down a handful of ketchup packets for our enjoyment, which I’m sure were thrown right out after we left, having not used them. The couple of jam packets (“real jam”) we got were just enough to cover our brown toast.

Juney’s is in a most salacious area, emphasized by the obviously high youth we saw who jittered their order to the counter and never stood still. Outside, the morning’s rain really brought out the sidewalk’s urine stench. Selkirk Avenue is a really cool street with lots on it, including a few good restaurants (the Windmill was terrific!), but I fit the stereotype of a scared white guy who “doesn’t want to walk around there at night.”

Juney’s was not a strong breakfast, but it was cheap for the pure volume of food you get. If you can only afford one meal a day, go there. Otherwise, go to the Windmill, just across the street.

Aug 14 2009

Juney’s

Country Gal Family Restaurant

475 Selkirk Ave

Hours of operation:

Mon - Sun   6 AM - 5:30 PM

Breakfast served until 11:30 AM

Breakfast Special  $6.75  

Coffee  $1.75

(Refills Extra)

Enormous amount of food!

Not great food, but Juney’s has tons of it!

Juney’s was a cross between Junior’s and the Country Boy in Gimli. This was no accident. The location on Selkirk Ave. used to be a Junior’s until the current owner took over. He was friends with the proprietors of Country Boy and wanted it to be similar. With both progenitors, he didn’t want to pay the expensive franchise fees, so he mixed up the Junior’s/Country Boy motif JUST enough to not have to pay up. Ergo, Country Gal.

To walk in, you’d think it were a Junior’s cafeteria. Actually, the white tile on the walls made it look like a bathroom, but the wood paneling on the west wall gives it the “Country” feel, I guess. The fluorescent lighting and counter service scream CAFETERIA to me, and the simple orange benches reinforced that impression.

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