Eggspectation Resto-Cafe

Not really understanding the poor reviews because coming here the first time made me return the following morning. Eggs here are great, can’t say the same for the rest of the items on the menu. Afterall, they’re EGGSpectation, not GOODFORALLspectation. Anyway, the juices here are decent. Quite thick so you get your money’s worth. The interior design is top notch, love the big windows!

One of the few times I’ve completely thrown away food. Got a chicken and mushroom crêpe and it was absolutely disgusting. Wife got an egg sandwich and it was raw at first then they had them recook it. Best part of it all was the juice and the potatoes. On top of the terrible food, they charge insane prices. Those two things cost $ 35 after tip. Our server was nice, that was another plus. This place serves bad food and I won’t come back here again.

This place is incredibly convenient for me from a location perspective, but as many of the other reviewers state, terribly inconvenient for me from a time perspective.
The food is good, the fresh-​squeezed juices fab, and the espresso packs a good punch.
The service leaves a *lot* to be desired, though. Take-​away in particular is a hassle, where I’m usually forced to find someone and *BEG* them to take and swipe my credit card because I, unlike all the other languidly lunching customers, just can’t spend 2 hours while the overstretched staff sort things out. Actually… stand by the bar under the stairs, and you’ll get an even better idea of how confused this place really runs.
Go if you have time. A lot of it.

I will admit I am not overly creative when it comes to this restaurant as i always order eggs benedict. I do try the different types of eggs benedict though, and today it was salmon. food is as good as usual, but I need to say the service sucked this morning. it took 10 – 15 min before I even had coffee in my cup. Then i had a meeting at 9am, figured asking for the bill at 8:25 would do it, but with only 15 min left to get to my meeting I brought my credit card up to the front to pay. A bit disappointing.
Takes Amex.

Wow, sad to see the horrible reviews for this place.
I enjoyed all my visits, but hey, guess a place can change.

a few years ago, this used to be the place to be for bunch. I was really excited to take my boyfriend here to experience one of the «must visit places in MTL». Boy were we disappointed!
We had ordered the eggspectation omelette and eggs benedict. The omelette was bland, overcooked. The eggs benedict were ok, but I’ve had better. The portion size has come down.
Overall, food and service has gone downhill and not worth my time anymore.

Torn between the eggs Benedict (my staple breakfast dish) and their eggs on yolk, which I felt immediately drawn to. Went for the latter. The egg on a yolk had an unusual presentation. The bagel sides were turned upside down with egg on the bottom and about 3 slices of bacon with cheese on top. The bagel was a Montréal bagel so of course I loved it. I feel like I didn’t need all that bacon. The meal also came with a side of fried potato which I didn’t care for, and some fresh fruits.
The service here was practically nonexistent. It took our waiter a while to get to our table even though the place was quite empty at 7am. Never checked up on us. And, we had to hunt him down for our check. I’m just happy that I tasted my Montréal bagel.
3 stars for the food
0 star for service

I suspected this was a chain. And i should have went screaming in the other direction instead of having breakfast here. But hadn’t really checked out the area by the hotel yet, and when you are starving for breakfast you’ll make crazy choices.
I ordered the bagel and smoked salmon. Bagel was barely toasted, the salmon barely smoked and the three capers they put on the plate, not nearly enough. And when I found out the price was really $ 13.95 and not $ 9.95 as printed in the english menu, pretty much decided never to darken their door again. The other bad thing wasn’t what happened with my poor over priced food and outdated menu, but the table next to me were two poor brits who just never go the right food. The whole time the waitress was messing things up the manager was sitting enjoying his coffee chatting with the line cook.
Plenty of other better choices in the area, don’t be like me and settle for the first thing you see!

we went to another Eggspectations in Montréal 2 years ago. it was freaking awesome. my friends staff an animé con in Virginia and found one there. they enjoyed it.
we found another Eggspectations in Montréal… and it was, sadly, mediocre at best.
I had the Egg-​chilada, pretty much a western omelette… only it was kind of bland. this in spite of having peppers, salsa, and more in it. when the best part of the meal is the fresh fruit on the side… ughhh.
the caffe au lait and the freshly squeezed orange juice were good.
service was kind of slow, which is inexplicable for a rainy Wednesday when the huge place was empty.
not horrible, but whereas I was able to overlook the stupid puns of the first Eggspectations (I hate puns), here I was unable to.
will not hit this again.

One year later and while still a fan of Eggspectation Resto-​Café, the service delays force me to detract a star.
It forced others to leave while we were there as for some reason they didn’t like being ignored. Here’s a tip for future visitors to Eggspectation, don’t sit where the wait staff can’t see you.
If you sit within the line of sight of the wait staff, you’ll still have a wait to receive a menu and the check but at least they’ll eventually get to you.
The food is still quite good.

Went here because it’s right around the corner from our hotel (Intercontinental). I’ve been to the MA location many years ago and remembered loving it. This time was just OK. When you enter the door you notice the nice décor, but then you’re left standing there for minutes before anyone acknowledges you. When we were finally seated it took many minutes to get a waitresses’ attention to order and another lengthy wait to finally get our food. The food itself is actually pretty good. It’s too bad the service sucks. When we were done it took forever to get the check.
…and then like a bunch of dummies we went back again the next day for breakfast and had the same exact experience.

Eggspectations does a great job of luring you in. You’re still groggy from a night of Montréal festivities, you search on your phone for breakfast or maybe ask the hotel front desk where to go for breakfast, and you wind up here, in a kinda cool/​trendy decorated space.
Then you notice the LINE. And the host (once they finally notice you in the back of the line after 5 minutes) tells you the wait right now is about 45 min to an hour. So you think ‘Hmm well if all these people are here to wait in line then this place MUST be great!‘
And that, dear readers, is the logical, yet incorrect assumption. Because what you don’t realize that this place is basically the first stop for hoards of tourists who were directed (like yourself) to this very mediocre eating establishment, and now that all of you are finally here, and waiting in line, you say to yourself, «people wait hours for amazing food in the metropolitan city where i’m from, this must be one of those places.» The other problem is the tourists in Montréal generally come in packs, so there’s a lot of underage college/​high school kids in groups of 6 – 10 who will be fighting you for tables.
One of the problems is the service is incredibly slow. I watched the host/​hostess bussing tables and even getting sucked into taking orders while the line kept piling up and nobody was bringing order to the chaos, while empty tables weren’t even being used. The other problem is their waiter/​waitress ratio for the size of the restaurant is totally out of whack. Eggspectations are pretty big, maybe 40 – 50 tables and 2 stories, and on several occasions I’ve been here each waiter/​waitress is trying to handle something like 10 – 15 tables.
If the food were out of this world I might overlook these shortcomings, but really, it’s very mediocre diner food, on par with Denny’s or IHOP, (which has much better service). For a local alternative, do yourself a favor and walk to Olive et Gourmando for a proper breakfast. Seriously people, you’re in the closest thing to Europe (with all its amazing bakeries and cullinary choices) in North America– there are much better dining options than this tourist trap.

One things we noticed when we booked our recent summer stay at L’Hotel (formerly the «19^th Century Hotel») was that online reviewers listed the hotel’s proximity to Eggspectations as a bonus. So of course we had to check Eggspectations out. The food’s pretty delicious! We dined here twice — the 1^st time I ordered the savory Oy Vegg (latkes, eggs, grilled tomatoes & sour cream, came w/​fruit & toast). The second time I got a tasty Bagel Dore (bagel dipped in egg whites & cooked, served w/​fruit, yogurt & honey). (Though as New Yorkers, we love & laud OUR bagels, we had to try the famed bagels in Montréal a few times — yes they are good! Different from ours in NY, more bread-​like w/​a bit of sweetness? Though NYC bagels still have my heart…). Great coffee here! Dug the cool interior — exposed brick, paintings, etc…
Admittedly, I saved our least-​favorite aspect for last — the SERVICE. During our first visit, we were practically ignored for the initial few minutes we were in this restaurant, then once seated, ignored a while longer (it wasn’t that busy). Our waitress was — well, not UNfriendly, but kind of… void. (The waiter who had seated us & got us menus was a bit more cordial). We witnessed a table complain about cold food twice, the waitress didn’t really handle the situation well (got the food, returned it microwaved & did everything mechanically, with no apologies or reassurances), the table eventually left without eating. On our SECOND visit, however, we got much better service — friendly & attentive. So just know that the service here might be inconsistent but the breakfast food at this chain was tasty enough for us to return & for me to give it 4 stars.

We were walking around Montréal starving on Saturday morning and passed this place. It seemed pretty busy– there was a few people waiting for tables– so we decided to give it a try. We waited about 15 minutes for a table. No one was coordinating who was being seated when, there was nobody to ask about wait time, and there was no actual line. So we kind of just milled about in the front of the restaurant until someone pointed at us and told us to follow them.
Our waiter was really, really slow. Eventually, we ordered. I ordered iced tea, and they charged me by the glass without mentioning it first. My friends ordered coffee, and every time they needed a refill, it took us 15 minutes to wave down our waiter and ask for more coffee. I ordered a bacon and cheese burger with fries. It arrived cold, without bacon. My friends both ordered eggs benedict, and their eggs arrived hard, and not runny at all. However, they said it was still good– but also cold. We could have asked our waiter to warm up our food– a table next to us asked him to warm theirs up– but we were so hungry and sick of waiting that we just decided to eat it.
When we finished the meal, it took forever to get our waiter to bring us our check, pay, and leave. The food was average to below-​average, the service was horrible, and the meal took forever (about 1.5 hours). Not a good combination!

Despite the handful of negative reviews, I went for breakfast. Service was slow (and it wasn’t busy). Arrived at about 7:30 on a Saturday and wasn’t served until about 8:15. After the wait, I got burnt bacon, a burnt bagel and over cooked eggs. The food at McDonalds is better!
The only positive is the place looked nice inside (though the chairs were uncomfortable).

What’s there not to like about breakfast/​brunch food. At a reasonable price and with an extensive menu, Eggspectation is a level above your grungy diner. Definitely the place to go after a night of partying out in the streets of Montreezy.

I ate at the one on St Catherine by the jazz festival, but it’s not listed on here, so I shall review here.
I know it’s a chain as a poster below mentioned, but still, if someone asked me my fav rest in NYC, I would probably say Nobu, even though it has about 15 locations. Or maybe even Striphouse, which has a bunch too. Shake Shack has 3 in NYC. So if you can give me a weekend where I have eggspectations for breakfast, shake shack for lunch, and nobu for dinner…(maybe even late night at Wendy’s), I don’t think I could really complain too much…
Although…when I saw their menu and their locations… Montréal, OK, Toronto, OK, and then two totally f$@#ing random spots in Maine and Maryland? Seriously? why not New York if you want to expand? I’d say Hoboken too, but I’ll still order Turning Point any day over eggspectations
Enough about that, the service was great (what can I say, I love cute French-​Canadian chicks), the prices are cheap, and the food is fantastic. And… they have lil packages of peanut butter at the table. don’t judge, but i threw some in my bag for later…
I had an omlette with cheese and jalepenos which was spicy and really good… the potatoes and toast too…
My chick had a breakfast burger, and although Ive never had lettuce and tomato on a hambuger bun with eggs, it really was good… don’t mock it till you try it… orange juice was fresh squeezed too. There were about 25 more things on the menu i really wanted to try. too bad i only went there once during my trip. well…i guess I can always take a road trip to Maryland one of these days.

Yum Yum! First, I love breakfast. Second, it’s often very hard for me to find a good breakfast place while traveling.
Eggspectations is decorated in lots of fun egg art and the staff is friendly and prompt. The menu has more options for Eggs Benedict that I have ever seen before. Hubby had a bagel version that was pretty good. For me, the Eggstravaganza was awesome!
On top of the great good, the juice I ordered was certainly fresh squeezed and delicious!
If you’re in town make sure you stop by so that you can get a great breakfast in Montréal.

Have you ever thought of having IHOP reinvented into a cleaner, tastier and no-​smellier version?
Canadians have the Eggspectation (not really sure if they have it outside of Quebec though). I’ve been to the ones in Montréal.
They have very good breakfast plates, less greasy flavor. I never eat sausages, but theirs were so good. I had scrambled eggs, with two sausages, two pancakes and a salad, w/​café au lait. Service was pretty fun, we had a very funny waitress.
Liked it a lot! Try it out for a rich breakfast while visiting Montréal!

Did not meet my eggspectation.
Normally it’s not a big deal if one of my over-​easy eggs comes with a broken yoke, like at Denny’s or something. But at a place that’s all about eggs, they should know better! Actually, it’s not even a problem since I break the yoke myself anyway. What was definitely annoying was just one waitress working the whole restaurant. Everyone was up out of their tables trying to track down the waitress, trying to get their bill so they can finally leave.
Tips: Come here for a leisurely breakfast. And by leisurely, I mean eternal. Good eggs though.