Best Breakfast Place

One star for price and another for character. The price is low and the food reflects that. Don’t walk in expecting anything more that what presents itself in dingy atmosphere and incredibly low price.
However, props to these people for their dedication to their die-​hard regulars and the obvious respect they have for everyone, regardless of social status. I have watched them open at the crack of dawn in –40 weather and set out the broken-​down chairs where ancient patrons spend a good portion of their day sipping coffee strong enough to knock a lesser man down.
If all you have is pocket change, these guys do a fantastic job of feeding you.

This place is adorable! The lady who cooked our breakfast was friendly, responsive, and engaging. The food was typical, breakfast-​y style toast, eggs and bacon but for the price I was shocked it could taste so flavourful. The paintings on the walls are lovely, contributing to a totally unique atmosphere. The place is certainly quirky (although very clean), but the food tasted great and the price was very reasonable.
If you’re looking for a relaxed, diner-​style breakfast with a great price tag in Toronto, this is your place.

Horrible restaurant! Extremely dirty and don’t know how they pass city code!
We were served by older Asian woman who was extremely rude! I asked what kind of cheese they used in their omelette, she told me it was cheddar but was served a processed cheese slice. She actually argued with me that processed cheese is cheddar cheese! My friend asked if she had peanut butter and she passed over the bar to us a large (almost empty) jar of peanut butter that customers dig into with their dirty knives. Gross and obviously we passed on it! She put so much salt on my omelette, even after I attempted to scrape off the fake cheese, my tonge was immediately numb.
I guess she took a dislike to me because she refused to give me a refill on my coffee (but offered one to my friend) and actually told me she doesn’t want customers «like me»?? LOL. I guess she prefers to serve dirty homeless people over educated and professionally employed responsible citizens. We decided to leave — paid our bill (we should have just walked out as we didn’t even finish our breakfast) and she and her regular customers at the back of the restaurant cheered us as we left and screamed «Don’t come back»!
An experience not to be forgotten! We laughed all the way up the street to another restaurant where we had cheerful service and real unprocessed food!

Best Breakfast Place definitely does not live up to its name. That being said, I’ve been twice, and I’ll probably go again.
It is a filthy little hole on Parliament that serves up $ 4.99 all day breakfast. The breakfast is totally edible, aside from the terrible potato things. It’s cheap and cheerful, and utterly filthy. Like, I didn’t like touching the menus. They were that stained and sticky. They’re laminated, BBP, give them a scrub. But honestly, why anyone would order anything aside from the breakfast is beyond me… so you don’t even really need to look at the menu.
On the right is the grill and a breakfast bar, and on the left are old lumpy booths that are well worn in. I like sinking into old booths, but others fine it uncomfortable. The random art on the wall, and old wood beams on the ceiling mish-​mashed with fading red pleather stools and booths make me happy, but overall this place is pretty ridiculous.
PEPPER POINTS: For the characters that walk in this joint. You’re going to see some stuff when you eat here.

I’ve got over 70 reviews in my «Breakfast Places» list (see below), so I think I can say, with some authority, that Best Breakfast Place… isn’t!
Not by a long shot. But it is one of the least expensive. The 4.50 breakfast special gets you 3 eggs, bacon, ham or sausage, home fries, toast and orange juice or one coffee. –Foreshadowing–
Lets start with the OJ. I didn’t, but wish I had. It was translucent, orange-​ish, and «better than Tang», according to one of my breakfast-​mates. The coffee was horrible. It was the worst coffee on my «Breakfast Places» list. I wouldn’t have ordered a second cup and hadn’t finished my first, but when another of my breakfast companions (the one without taste-​buds) ordered a refill, I thought «why not? Maybe this one will be different». It wasn’t. To add insult to injury, they charged for this refill.
The toast was standard, the home fries were pretty good, and the eggs were poorly prepared. The five meals came out slowly, two-​at-​a-​time with the last one a good 5 minutes after the fourth. (There were 5 of us.) It was almost like they had never prepared breakfasts before. Odd, based on the name of the restaurant.
If you’re in the neighbourhood, go to Johnny G’s, significantly better and only a block or so north.
Or better yet, but another 5 minutes on, Chew Chew’s Diner.