Eggs Oasis

Marvelously underwhelming. The coffee tasted like diluted sewage water, the whip cream was tasteless oil, and the hollandaise sauce was terrible. … At least the service was good.

I’ve been for breakfast there all the time and I liked it comparing to the rest of restaurants around.

We wanted to have a brunch style meal today and decided to try your restaurant. It was busy which I always take as a good sign… lots of people equals quality service and food… not so this time. We arrived and we got seated right away… took a bit for waitress to come but we ordered coffee and she was gone a long time before we got it. My husband got a phone call at 11:02 the same time we were placing our order… meal took 45 min to arrive… time was tracked from phone call. When meal finally arrived the waitress dropped off plates and took off. When I looked at my order Oasis brunch my eggs were hard and looked like they had been sitting under heating lamp for a bit… ordered over easy. Bacon was over cooked touched it and it crumbled. Way too hungry to wait for new eggs as after I complained she went to the kitchen and they told her they could have 2 new eggs in 2 min… really than what took so long to make our meal? No thank you… I was so surprised that there was no discount or even the coffee taken off the bill just lots of excuses about short staff and lots of customers. Where was the manager walking the floor just reassuring the customers and taking accountability for the poor service… even a voucher for future visit would have been better than nothing. Will probably not return to this spot with so many other restaurants in the area…

Nothing What You Expect It To Be.
Food Is Very Bland, Dry, Service Is Alright (Depends Who You Get), Price Is Too High For The Bland Food. No Thanks. I’ll Stick To Cora’s.

I find I am typically underwhelmed when ever I eat at eggs oasis. The coffee is not great and the food is just OK. Maybe my hopes were high after having some great breakfasts at Nellie’s, Dinner Delux and others of the sort. We still go from time to time as there are typically no lines and the food is not ‘bad’ but I would not overly recommend this place to friends.

Asked for a children’s meal, as I have a card from my doctor saying that I can only have small portion sizes. I was told that the manager wouldn’t honour the request, as the owner won’t allow it. So not impressed. I won’t be back.

Average breakfast place. The food came to us lukewarm which was a bummer as I would prefer a hot breakfast. Eggs tasted fresh but the bacon strips tasted like from overnight. Sausage links ok. Never tried craton before and it’s like a meat patty which tasted fine. Potatoes can’t really go wrong but because they came lukewarm, just didn’t taste good. The beans tasted good but its probably from can.
Waffles with banana and Nutella — the waffles were cold and soggy.
Overall disappointed with the quantity.

Don’t even bother. Can you call it a restaurant if they don’t serve food?
I’m a breakfast person, and I’ve been a waiter. When this place was built near my house I was excited to try it out but quickly started hearing poor reviews. I like to give places a chance… but I should have listened.
I had some spare time on a Saturday morning and went by myself. It was unusually quite for a weekend (first red flag); for comparison, Cora’s usually has a long line. There were less than ten people seated and about as many staff.
They sat me at a 4-​person table and put down 4 menus, which was strange. Another waitress came by in a couple of minutes for drink orders and they came in a few more minutes. Not bad.
And then I was ignored for a full hour; wasn’t asked to order food, didn’t get refills on my drinks, no checkups. The waitress seemed to only have one or two other tables, I have no idea what she was doing.
When she finally checked up on me there was zero enthusiasm or empathy. Completely oblivious about whether my food was being prepared or not. Lethargic even. I asked for my bill and left; I wasn’t going to wait another hour for overpriced food.
The Good Earth coffee shop across the street satisfied my hunger in minutes flat.
Questions: why are the staff so slow, are they volunteers? how is this place still in business?

Hoping for excellent, I received average food with average service. Price slightly above average.
The setting and décor suggests this could be a great spot. Waited too long to get seated with confusion on the hostess list. When we were seated, our waitress did a solid job and brought the service level back up.
I ordered the ham Benedict which was accompanied by a fruit bowl and fried potatoes. Hollandaise sauce needed some refinement but passable.
Breakfast for two before tip — $ 30.

I ended up here twice in one week thanks to two unrelated business meetings. Both occasions were for breakfast and I really have no complaints. It was moderately busy, the service was good and the food was just fine. Parking is easy and the place is nice and bright.
My first crack at the menu involved trying the Gardner’s Medley. I don’t like raw onions and so they made it with sauteed onions instead. The omelet was huge and I ended up taking half of my meal home. I thought it was pretty good and there was a respectable amount of cheese. My second meal choice was a crêpe with cheese and spinach. I did manage to eat the entire thing and I was full for the rest of the day. No one else I accompanied had any issues with their meal.
I would go back but check out the Royal Oak location for the next time.

My boyfriend and I went here for breakfast on a Wednesday morning. It was not super-​packed busy but there were people there.
Service Review:
The waitress seemed indifferent of us being there. She put our drinks and food plates on the table next to us instead of just walking around to where we were sitting to put the plates in front of us. Very weird. She even set our coffees at the end of the adjacent table as she «dropped them off» at the table. I have never seen a waitress not set my food/​drink in front of me before.
Food Review:
The food was absolutely DISGUSTING. We ordered the Florentine Benedict and the Beefsteak Benedict.
First off, the Florentine Benedict was made with frozen shredded spinach heated up over the cooktop. It stank and was smothered in cheese. It was the most un-​fresh food I have ever tasted. Just to get an idea of the food quality, I ate the benedict without the sauce. I could not eat more than two bites. We informed the waitress that the $ 14 benedict was inedible and she shrugged and charged us for it anyway. My boyfriend ordered the Beefsteak Benedict. The meat tasted like rancid horse meat. The eggs were poached with too much vinegar so that you could actually taste the vinegar on the eggs. A big NO-​NO for good poached eggs. Neither of us ate our meals. Our bill was about $ 30 for the two sub-​par inedible breakfast plates.
We left hungry.
Denny’s would have tasted like a 5-​star restaurant after this disgusting meal. Overpriced. HORRIBLE QUALITY. You can spend $ 30 for two people at MUCH nicer restaurants for breakfast in Calgary.
Do everyone a favor, EggsOasis, and close your doors!

Nicely decorated place. Like some other reviewers said, the food was really just ok. The French toast I ordered — it’s really just 2 tiny pieces of slightly toasted white bread; did a someone miss any ingredients or steps from the simple and classic French toast recipe… The friendly service earned most of the three stars I give here. Was a little disappointed even though the service was good. Food — it really feels like a knockoff version of Cora. Thanks for the great service but no, I won’t go again :-(

Food is just average at prices indicative of higher quality. Didn’t even enjoy the toast.
Sad to say I’ve been twice now and just don’t see the value. My husbands eggs were poached hard and not soft and when he mentioned it the waitress made it seem like a big deal. She wasn’t sure what to do… just make it right!
Disappointing

Great location, service and the food was fantastic!!!

Not as egg-​citing as I had hoped it would be. The fruit served with my breakfast was a little dry and so were the potatoes. The service was pretty good though.
I think if they picked up on the overall food quality they will do well as there were lots of people lined up to get a table.

Rating: ** ½ (out of 5 *)
Food: **
Service: ****
Décor: **
Bottom Line: Sub-​par food that was only balanced by good service. There are way better places to go for brunch in Calgary with better food and personality.
My friend and I were looking for brunch so we thought we’d check the place out. It was Saturday morning and was pretty busy with quite a bit of a line up. However, the space is pretty large so we only had to wait about 10 minutes.
Food:
It definitely did not start off well. They had a whiteboard with specials on coffee, one of which was for a salted caramel capuccino. Sounds delicious right? I’m thinking a frothy capuccino with salted caramel sprinkled on top. Wow that was a big mistake! It was nothing but some overly sweet Nescafe instant coffee mix.
Given the name, I was expecting a menu full of unique egg-​based breakfast items. I was sorely disappointed since the menu pretty much contained your typical breakfast /​brunch fare. People are right in making comparisons to Cora’s.
I ordered the Eggs Oasis, which is pretty much your standard brunch fare of eggs, bacon, sausage, beans and hash browns with the exception of the creton (Quebec pork spread) which I’ve never tried before. Probably the tastiest thing on the plate, which really isn’t say much. The baked beans tasted out of a can and the rest were meh.
Service:
The service was actually quite good. We were seated fairly quickly considering the lineup. Our waitress was very friendly and attentive.
Décor:
It’s a pretty large, bland and bright space but seemed pretty tight with the table layout.

Quite the evolution Eggs Oasis has made this year… and frankly I’m probably not going back at this point. At one point they were an alternative to Cora’s but they have slipped to an alternative to Denny’s and my last visit they hardly made that standard.
My last meal was pretty repulsive… I ate half of it and regretted it for several hours following as I struggled with nausea. I ordered an eggs benny but held the ham and added mushrooms (no substitutions anymore so the exchange of meat for mushrooms cost $ 2 more) with the eggs medium. Neither egg was medium. 1 was underdone (the white was running) and the other was over hard. Neither really work for a benny… The Hollandaise was way to liberal and coated everything on the dish and it was a very poor example of a hollandaise. If you cooks have issues making hollandaise, you should probably buy it because it really messes the dish up when it’s gross. The hashbrowns were terribly over done and greasy so they really weren’t edible either. The fruit was the only thing that I enjoyed and even that wasn’t the best fruit I’ve ever had (certainly not the fruit bowl Cora would serve).
Service wasn’t very good. I think it’s inexperience verse anything else but they should train the new servers if that’s all they hire. I pulled her over to look at the egg situation and she said «wow, that sucks» and that was that. No offer to remake it or do anything to the bill. She left me with the meal to finish without making sure it was OK to do so. I finished the fruit and left the plate — she didn’t say anything when she took away a plate that looked very similar to the plate she had brought out from the kitchen without further discussion about the product that came out. If I was in a fighting mood I would have made a scene or got a manager but we just paid and left and I made a promise to myself not to be back.

Not really Gluten Free friendly, and over priced!

2.5 stars. Despite the promise of their cringe-​inducing «eggcellence in eggxotic» food motto, this restaurant has a pretty standard menu for a breakfast specialty joint. The place lacks the charming over-​exuberance of Cora’s or the gritty authenticity of Nellie’s. The menu and presentation is very reminiscent of Cora’s, with pancakes, scrambles, crepes, etc. served with fresh fruit.
Seeing how it was lunchtime, I opted for the one of the lunch specials (which I had to hunt down as the waitress didn’t bring the specials insert). The deluxe burger platter special came with soup, tea/​coffee, Caesar salad, home fries. The soup was a good start, cream of mushroom with large recognizable pieces of ‘shrooms. The burger and sides were really big, and based on the tables around me, this carries across the whole menu. Unfortunately, the theme is quantity over quality, as the salad was flavourless, the fries undercrisped, and the burger just passable flavourwise. I McGyver’ed the burger with one of the table side peanut butter packets, so this redeemed it somewhat.
In sum, this place is generic suburban styled, feeds you a lot, but leaves something to be desired on food preparation. In a crowded market, EggsOasis needs to step it up to distinguish itself.

I’ve been here twice already and have been very satisfied with the food. The service isn’t exceptional, but the waitress still met our needs considering how busy the place was.
The omlettes are fabulous, and the crepes are delicious.
Two people will run you anywhere from $ 30 — $ 40.