$2.99 breakfast at the Grenadier Cafe in High Park

[junction_parents]

The breakfast is excellent and their coffee is not bad either, I highly recommend the breakfast (choose between ham, sausage or bacon, two eggs (done any way you like), potatoes and bread (rye, whole wheat, white). 9:00 am- 11:30 am, Monday-Friday (excluding holidays)

200 Parkside Drive (inside High Park, by the High Park zoo), (short walk from High Park subway station)
(416) 769-9870

 

[Urban Shocker]

Do they serve Spam, too?

 

[junction_parents]

nope, but I'm sure you can bring your own

It's funny, a friend and fellow Russian immigrant decided to buy a can of spam as an experiment to see if it's actually palatable, when he opened it, I almost died from the horrible smell.... brrrr I can't believe it's not in the dog food isle

 

[Mustapha]

Looks good, when I am in the nabe I will so be there, thanks.

Spam is ok; if fried up in slices. Like bacon and eggs, once a week is probably pushing it.

We haven't seen any food pictures since smuncky's German tour, nice touch.

 

[Urban Shocker]

So how does this work? You go there, and they pay you $2.99 to eat that?

 

[junction_parents]

Isn't this is what a typical cafe breakfast looks like anyway? I don't expect buckwheat kasha with home-made butter and sliced sauteed kolbasa... what did you expect for $2.99 in TO? Maybe you like Ikea breakfast better

 

[urbandreamer]

^United Bakers (@Bathurst and Lawrence) has a $3 breakfast special: includes bagel, 2 eggs, veggies, coffee, oj.

j_p, thanks for the photos: I've considered going there, but the lack of non-meat options has turned me off.

ps, perhaps that high park deli (Russian) that serves hot meals has buckwheat kasha etc breakfasts?

 

[junction_parents]

Urban, do you remember the vegetarian restaurant that closed years ago on Dundast St W (by Keele), what was it called? I agree, there should be many more veggie options.

 

[junction_parents]

perhaps that high park deli (Russian) that serves hot meals has buckwheat kasha etc breakfasts?

I make my buckwheat kasha with kolbasa at home, there are no decent East Euro sit-down places anywhere and no one makes buckwheat just right to my taste, I don't expect anyone to sit over raw grains and pick them clean for an hour either..

 

[urbandreamer]

I don't remember that veggie cafe, as I haven't lived in the area long enough.

Perhaps one of the Russian/Israeli places in the Bathurst/Finch/Steeles area has the kasha you're looking for? (I eat it at home as well as an alternative to rice.)

 

[junction_parents]

I never travel to that area, I did have buckwheat at a Russian restaurant a few years ago, it was dry and badly prepared, I think they used margarine instead of butter and about a pound of salt... Have you tried Rawlicious yet?

 

[urbandreamer]

I haven't been to rawlicious yet, but I did take a nice photo of it the other day....it's owned by a friend of a friend....

Speaking of good breakfast/brunch, I highly recommend Musa (Dundas and Euclid) and Pop Bistro (Queen East beside Dark Horse coffee.)

 

[W. K. Lis]

When John Howard gave his 165 acres for a park to Toronto, he stipulated that no alcohol be allowed in his High Park (even though he had a wine cellar in Colborne Lodge). The city later purchased land to the west and east to complete the current 398.5 acres.
This question I have is the restaurant within the original 165 acres of John Howard's far? Where are the boundaries of John Howard's acreage, and the other original properties?

 

[adma]

Do they serve Spam, too?

Are you suggesting the plug for the Grenadier Cafe was planted?

 

[adma]

This question I have is the restaurant within the original 165 acres of John Howard's far? Where are the boundaries of John Howard's acreage, and the other original properties?

Yeah, I know it's the idiot's way of finding out. But the historic map might offer a hint...