Ottawa Foodies

I went here with visiting family and friends on Saturday morning. What a terrible mistake. After ordering our coffee, tea, etc and waiting for 15 minutes for it to show up the waitress came over and informed our table that the resturant ran out of coffee cups and our drinks would be there shortly. They showed up 15 minutes later. She took our order at that time but it took us over 45-50 minutes to get our food! As someone already mentioned on this forum, the chairs were uncomfortable and the smokers in our group became very antsy during the wait. The one nice thing was that the waitress gave us free toast after about 40 minutes but as many of us ordered the very simple "all american" breakfast the free toast was not enough. My sister's boyfriend kept making jokes about going to the hotdog vendor outside to get a faster breakfast. When our food arrived my latkes looked like hashbrowns and the melon slices that everyone got were not quite ripe.

It's hard to pay attention to the food since their chairs are the worst!!! That place is just a chiropractor's dream -- stomping ground for new clients.

Needless to say, I cringe at the idea of going there to eat.

Since this place started sucking (qv more recent restaurantthing.com reviews), I've been looking for a better downtown eggy brekky place.

Suggestions?

Their _menu_ is fantastic, but the food's a mess nowadays, and the service is reliably awful. Not unkind; just useless.