I headed over to Ottawa last weekend in search of a new place and lucked out!
That’s right… BLUEBERRY BACON PANCAKES. They were awesome. I had a problem with my camera, so sadly I don’t have any good pictures of the pancakes themselves :-(
$8.95 coffee extra. map.
Sunday was a gorgeous day to get out and head for the Byward Market in search of brunch. I had wanted to go to Chez Lucien for ages and was worried it would be packed since it’s a small place. My fears, however, were false, and the three of us sat in the front area, surrounded by windows. Ahhh, natural light makes for wonderful photos…
There were just 3 choices… Eggs Benedict, Eggs Florentine, and the one with salmon whose real name escapes me at the moment.
Gen had the Florentine:
And Steve and I both had the Benedict:
And for a closeup:
The potato concoctions were totally awesome, as were the eggs. 8 bucks a pop coffee extra.
In some other Breakfast Blogger news, the post I made back in December about the Bacon Weave, which I can’t take credit for, got noticed by TasteSpotting.com. This brought on quite the spike of traffic and comments on that entry, and some bacon related drama ensued. It is rather amusing, and I urge you to check it out: The Great Bacon Weave Drama of January 25, 2008.
Wow these guys don’t hold back on the bananas…
It was a virtual mountain!
These were taken at the Tuscanos at 710 St Joseph here in Hull. YUM. $8.25.
Whoa, this is one of the best Benedicts I’ve had around the Ottawa area…
Sam Snead’s is in Chateau Cartier at 1170 Aylmer Road. There was a brunch available, but we decided to order from the menu instead.
That’s one tasty hollandaise they’re using there, lemme tell ya.
And a little view from above…
Shhh, don’t tell anyone that I took some fancy jams home! \(^o^)/
T’was around $11.
As you may know, you can Frenchify just about anything. In the past, I’ve made french toast danishes and stuffed french toast sandwiches. I happened to have some sunflower seed bread kicking around and decided to give it a shot.
I just love this bread to bits. I get it at the IGA grocery store here in Hull. If someone knows where you can get this in Ottawa, please let me know!
My french toast mix is simple… a few eggs, a bit of milk, cinnamon and vanilla extract. As you can probably tell, this morning’s mix happened to get quite a bit of vanilla extract!
I threw them on to my new griddle which I’ve been meaning to blog about… it’s over 2 feet wide and can be submerged in water for cleaning. I’m totally in love with it.
Since the bread was thick, I let it fry for a while…
I just added a touch of maple syrup, took some pictures, then went to town. The texture of the sunflower seeds really makes this quite delightful. The extra time I took frying these suckers up meant that they just had a hint of crispiness too.
YUM :-)
Payment 2 for fixing KJ’s computer was in the form of breakfast at Louis’, over at 181 McArthur Avenue. It was full when we arrived, just before 11 a couple Sundays ago, so we had to wait a few minutes before getting seated.
I had the eggs and sausage:
If we had shown up earlier, I would have gotten the bacon egg special for $3.75! I think I’d like to try the pizza from this place sometime as well…
Poor KJ… her computer was suffering from terminal BSOD, or Blue Screen of Death. As you can see on the side here, it was some sort of pagefile problem. After 15 minutes of fiddling around trying to cure it, it began apparent that this wasn’t going to be a simple fix. So off we went for breakfast to mull over our options, KJ’s treat! Woot, this is the best kind of computer call… one that comes with a free breakfast!
KJ took me to the White Horse, not too far from the Ottawa VIA train station at 294 Tremblay Road. I was pretty impressed with the breakfast and they have great prices too!
I had the Rib Steak and 2 Eggs:
And KJ had the Two Eggs with Corn Beef Hash:
mmmmmMMmmm, yummy… Mine was $8.95 and KJ’s was $4.95. Very awesome.
Stay tuned, KJ’s computer is now fixed and I have to return it next weekend. Payment is another free breakfast!
About a month ago, I ventured off to Ottawa for a computer call and was lucky to manage a breakfast to discuss the work to be done. It was in the Byward Market here in Ottawa.. an area where I’ve had only a handful of breakfast adventures. Any tips to places I haven’t tried yet are greatly appreciated!
The Dubliner is located at the end of William Street where it meets George Street, on the southern-west corner. I had the Irish breakfast: two eggs, sausage, roasted tomato, sautéed mushrooms and onions, baked beans, homefries and toast. Oh my.
Yummmmy… $9.50 with coffee.
This one is dedicated to KJ who is moving to a new office in Ottawa. Nat and I managed to get a breakfast with her at the Bistro Renoir last Friday on her last day:
All of the sudden I saw it… those giant toast ears and yellow yolk eyes were staring down on me… It was THE BREAKFAST MONSTER!
Was I about to become the eater or the eaten?
Your guess ;)
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