As mentioned before, this is unmistakably a hotel restaurant. What does that mean? It means cheap carpet, inoffensive colour choices and tepid art on the walls. This is a place that’s not meant to be memorable. You can pass through it and forget as soon as you leave.
The potatoes were shredded, a method which has disappointed more often than not. I actually was able to pick up the whole pile in one pinch, they were so dry. Reminded me of a haystack while I was eating them, but mushy. How can potatoes be soft AND dry at the same time? Believe it at the Peppermill.
The eggs were fine, no problems there. The toast was a very pleasing whole wheat rye and the bacon was decent. The sausages were typical breakfast links, but with a maple taste to them. Syrup on the grill possibly? A nice touch, regardless. My plate came with a single strawberry and an orange slice. This added some nice colour. It’s always nice to have some fruit to cleanse the palate. The coffee, by the way, was good but was still from the lake.
All in all, it was too much money for what it was, but the food was an improvement over what it used to be. The French toast cinnamon buns were a big hit, so try one of those if you happen to stay at the hotel. If you’re not a guest, explore what else downtown Winnipeg has to offer.
March 5 2009
Peppermill Café
360 Colony Street
(in the Holiday Inn)
Breakfast Special - $8.50
Though it may say “Café” in the title, there’s no mistaking this place for a coffee hut. It’s a hotel restaurant through and through.
I had eaten at the Peppermill Café a few years ago and have been haunted by the memories of their lackluster breakfast with awful tater-tot potatoes. I was pleasantly surprised to see the menu had changed since then. The new menu was colourful and varied, though it contained too many quotation marks, ®, © and ™ symbols. They offered a “Best-4-Breakfast®” promise. It read like the breakfast terms and conditions.
Click on menu to enlarge.
Coke Sprite Dasani Kellog’s Quaker Tropicana Becel Nabob McCain Kraft Lipton.
I’m glad there were so many enormous companies involved in making our breakfasts. I feel secure. Which is what this corporate designed PR campaign wants me to feel.
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