Motorama Restaurant

A great family owned breakfast spot. It’s inexpensive and feels like home. The mother/​daughter combo provide excellent service. There are a lot of regulars that come here so I know it’s a solid spot

Absolute best diner breakfast in the city. Super friendly, great food and service. Highly recommended for all. Get the eggs Benny deluxe.

This is a no fuss place. The staff is very friendly and welcoming. It’s like coming home. There’s always loud chatter in the kitchen and it makes for a nice atmosphere. The food is great, I really don’t care if I make it before 11AM for free coffee. I mean if you can’t afford a cup of coffee maybe you should stay home. It’s family run for more than 50 years and that itself is a testament to all other chain places. Why go to a chain when you can come here!

Great cheap eats. Good atmosphere. Great prices. Really a nice spot for people on a budget. Also good for kids… there’s a kids’ menu and a casual vibe. Families can feed here for less. I talked to the current owner – they’ve had the place for 8 yrs., but the place is about 75 yrs old, so it’s got a nice history. She says no one knows for sure where the name came from. They need bike parking! Definitely worth the trip.

Simple, tasty breakfast that won’t break the bank. Their pancakes are one of the better ones I’ve had for a while from similar breakfast joints.

We LOVE this place! The service is excellent! You feel like you are taken care of like their own family. The food is prepared with love, always delicious. My favorites are the breakfasts and souvlaki! Yum! I highly recommend this place!

Loved the sausages, the pancakes are not so great though. Get here before 11 for free coffee!

I just love this place … for the personal and engaging service and the plentiful but reasonably priced breakfast! Bacon done perfectly!

I finally tried this place today for a late lunch with a friend. Darn, really wish I had tried it sooner.
Basic food, very wallet friendly prices and family run (or so I assumed) – it is like you are eating in their home and they certainly treated us well.
While you can certainly get a good lunch here, breakfast is obviously the reason to go. (I suspect they may be closed for dinner). Probably not a good enough reason to travel to the east end but certainly a good enough reason to stay in the east end – especially if you are searching for a great greasy spoon along the Danforth. Recommended!

After the crazy ice storm we were without power so we walked over to Motorama for breakfast. We had to wait about 10 minutes for a table. Two of us ordered the big breakfast and one got the club sandwich. When the big breakfasts came out it didn’t look like a ton of food but I really struggled to finish, and I can eat. My husband got the club and really enjoyed it, the fries were just okay. The food was so well prepared, the over easy eggs were perfect. The only issue was the wait time for the food but I blame the ice storm and the fact that they were really busy. We will definitely be back.

I kinda loved this place. Had the breakfast special, your basic bacon and eggs. My overeasy eggs were perfect, the hashbrowns were fried up with what I think is a litle garlic, yummy, but the coffee was sooo weak it was close to undrinkable. That was the only problem. Which, on a Sunday morning, can kinda suck. You need that caffeine.

This place is amazing. The server Maria is honestly the nicest woman in the world. The food is so fresh and delicious the price is right and the portions are amazingly large

In the spring of 2012, they changed their iconic sign! (see my photo)*
I popped in and the owner had a lot of remorse. She’s taken a lot of flak for removing the old sign, but wasn’t aware how «beloved» it was. After the fact, people told her they would have paid to restore it, but that’s easy to say after it’s gone. Where were these people when the sign was still there? It had been in disrepair for years. Oh well, we have our old photos, and the menu hasn’t changed.
*Edit — Then a couple of years later, they changed their sign again to make it look more like the old one. (See my new photo)

More grease on the east (Yum). *3.5 stars.
I was in the exact same boat as Nicole C: I’d passed by Motorama so many times over the last three years, that I finally bit the bullet and popped in for a hangover breakfast and, man, am I glad I did.
This is a classic spoon. Lots of greasy, super-​friendly staff (I’m pretty sure I was referred to as «sweetie», «honey» and «sugar pie» during breakfast. Sure, that looks good on screen now, but it was waaaay less cute the longer I went without a Caesar.
The food was dirt cheap, really tasty (real home fries!) and came out before I whimpered through my second cup of coffee.
A small word of warning: I think some of the clientele from the lovely bars farther east (see my pub Danforth pub crawl list) roll in here for their first beer of the morning.
Looking forward to visiting without the apocalypse in my head.

Motorama was one of those places that I kept passing by saying «yea I’ll totally check out that place next time!» but I just never did. So after 3 years of walk-by’s I finally decided to check this place out with my friend. We hit it before 11am so that we could still take part of our free coffee (I had tea cause coffee is GROSS) with our all day breakfast deals.
UM — WHY THE FUCK DIDN’T I KNOW THIS PLACE WAS DELICIOUS?
Seriously for $ 5.35 (taxes incl.) I got 3 wide strips of lightly spiced bacon, two eggs, 2 pieces of toast and these hash browns which I wanted to motorboat.
I don’t know what was on those hash browns — it was probably just salt and pepper for all I know, but I couldn’t get them into my mouth fast enough.
I don’t know why it took me so long to discover breakfast at this place, even though it is a bit of a dive, I’m totally a dive-​diner girl. But once I left I didn’t feel at all greasy and my wallet still had plenty of cash left to burn. Perhaps for another round in the evening?! MOAR HASH BROWNS!