Avalon Restaurant

Simple and honest, good homemade food.
Everything there seems actually home made. The ambiente is a little down-​scale but the food makes up for it a million times.
The best place to meet your friends at after a night out.

Good food, unpretentious but excellent service, relaxed vibe. These guys make better bennies than the hyped up café nearby. Cheaper price too.

Simple and good food with decent prices. Great toast and jam. Solid hollandaise sauce. They will make custom eggs benedict with any of the omelette fillings. They consistently get the eggs cooked correctly. Service is friendly. Not really a trendy/​popular place so usually not a long wait.

Quaint little place with good music, food, coffee and service.
Great breakfast and amazing service. Will definitely come back when we’re in town next.
No kids menu but they offer half adult meals and inexpensive sides and so we were able to feed our toddler very easily.

Great breakfast food. Love the jam and the Toast. Got the 2−4−2 breakfast with my boyfriend and it was the perfect amount of food.

Called at 1:30 to ask if they had all day breakfast and they said yes we are open until 3:00. Arrived at 1:40, sat down and then they said sorry we are closed.

Simple, OK food at a decent price. Prompt, unintrusive service.
House hot sauce is quite good — not too hot, slightly sweet.
Rather tiny place with interesting artwork on the walls.

This lovely little hideaway is my mothers favourite breakfast spot. I had been here before but never bothered to leave a review until now. The location is great and an easy walk for anyone in downtown Victoria. The restaurant seats only about 10 – 15 people and has a very open atmosphere.
The staff are lovely and always great for a recommendation. The portions are rather large and they offer half sizes. More places should do this, not only because I’m not always hungry enough to eat a full meal but it makes it cheaper for me to go out and grab a quick bite without having to go to a fast food joint.
The food is always fresh and always filling. They have a make your own omelette, so you can stuff it full of meat and veggies or just have some simple add ons. I Love mine with bacon, sausage and ham.
If you are in the Victoria area for a visit this is a must stop. If you live here, you need to take your special someone or your girls for brunch. Avalon will not disappoint.

I love this place! Great eggs Benny! The oaten toast and homemade name are amazing! You can even buy some to take home with you! Service is every friendly and the place is cozy and very reasonable prices. One of my fave lil spots. Def a hidden gem!

Nice atmosphere, staff and delicious food.

A tiny little place I walked by it forever. Until one day I needed some all day breakfast so I popped in. Homemade, 1. jam 2.hot sauce 3. bread. AMAZING. Cute little place very colorful inside. A true hidden gem.

Cute little breakfast place in a town full of breakfast places. Food is good, but homemade bread and jam are the best part of a meal there. Cheap and no lineups.

I’ve been going to Avalon for as long as it’s been around: ten years or more. My tastes have changed over the years, but I still go occasionally, mainly because it never has a long lineup and the turnover is quick.
The food is cheap, tasty, and consistent, but by no means of high quality. The eggs are not free range, the bacon is the thin and salty mass-​produced kind, and the sausages are greasy and characterless. Even the bread, which is homemade, is underseasoned and often tastes of baking soda.
Despite these criticisms, I’ve enjoyed my breakfast more often than not – probably because I don’t go often enough for these flaws to sink in (to my stomach, I mean). But after an experience several days ago, I won’t be back.
It was a small thing – and I should have seen it coming – regarding the hollandaise sauce, which I’ve always thought one of the better parts of Avalon’s eggs benedict. It’s uniform, not too heavy, and has a pleasant and slightly eggy taste; not as lemony as I like, but a perfect fit for the food Avalon serves.
So when I say I should have seen it coming, I mean that I should have guessed where it came from. I’m just surprised I’ve never seen the pour-​spout tetra-​pak labelled «HOLLANDAISE» in the open kitchen before.
And that, my friends, is the end of that.

When you’re at the mercy of someone else for breakfast choices, you just have to go with it.
This was breakfast spot #2 that we went to on my vacation, and while it doesn’t bowl me over, it’s definitely worth a stop.
Nothing spectacular, and I must agree that the potatoes are nothing to write home about, but service is good and it’s cozy in here.
To be quite honest, nothing was memorable about my meal, which is why the three stars stand. Worth a try, but there are probably better places.

Avalon is a nice little restaurant, open for breakfast and lunch on Fort Street. Cozy little place, everythign is homemade there.
The Good: The food tends to be really good, as does the service. They always have really yummy homemade soups, and good handmade burgers. They have this really good hotsauce that I think they call TNT sauce, and their homemade bread is really good with the jam. The hollandaise sauce is TO DIE FOR.
The Bad: I’m not a huge fan of the potatoes they make. Those, soup or salad are your usual choices as sides and i haven’t really found a dressing i like. But again, the soups are always delish.
The Ugly: Only thing I can think of is I wish that they were open a bit later. With my schedule, i seem to always just miss them.
Great alternative to standing in line for an hour at Blue Fox!