This was an average breakfast. If you’re wandering around the area, go for it, but it’s not worth a special trip.

The Kent seems to almost be alone for breakfast out there, aside from Julia’s Ukrainian Restaurant which is just a block down. Residents of East Elmwood, give us your input!

July 25 2010

Kent Restaurant

18 Kent Road

Kent Special - $2.99 before coffee and tax. From menu: “One dollar is charged after 11:00.”

The Kent restaurant had a decent selection of breakfast favourites, including, “Mickey Mouse pancakes” (sorry if I just got you sued, folks), a low-carbohydrate breakfast option, a hefty Ukrainian breakfast and veggie omelettes. As advertised on their window, “All foods are home made.” Throughout the menu, they refer to the potatoes in the singular “hash brown.”

The coffee was somewhat tasty, but left a ganky dry feeling in our mouths. The Kent is situated in one of Winnipeg’s coffee deserts, where there is no good place to get coffee. Can you tell us where to slake our thirst on Nairn?

The usual selection of rye/white/brown toast was standard, and the eggs were nothing special, but they rarely are. I enjoyed my Ukrainian breakfast with the greasy good hashbrowns and the fried perogies which were decent, but not great. The other meats like the bacon and ham were average – nothing great, nothing terrible. The big bottle of Frank’s hot sauce made everything okay.