Breakfast with Friends and Neighbours
Continuing our long and storied tradition of eating breakfast at places around Edmonton and writing about it, I present to you our take on Whyte Avenue stalwart “Friends and Neighbours Cafe.” (10834 82 Avenue)
This is the kind of place where you can get yourself some decent eggs and bacon, and coffee. Plus, the place is kind of small and jammed with tables so it’s totally good for eavesdropping.
Not that I encourage that kind of thing.
What a nice, cozy little place.
The decor is all over the map, with green vinyl booths, tables in the middle of the place, some east-Asian panache here and there. (A note to bathroom people, they are tiny bathrooms.)
That far east influence finds its way onto the menu too. There are some fish-egg combos which I have managed to stay away from as well.
But breakfast regulars like bacon and eggs, omelets, eggs benny and french toast are all here.
Sally is the French Toast Queen, and I usually go for eggs and bacon (or some kind of breakfast burrito), but this time around I ordered first and astounded all when I ordered french toast.
The tension was palpable as everyone waited to see if Sally would stick with her usual order.
She did.
Man cannot live on french toast alone, he needs bacon. And coffee. And orange juice.
The french toast was good times. There were no leftover egg-bits hanging on, the portions were a good size and everything went down well, when covered in maple syrup.
If you find yourself driving by Route 99 thinking “It looks pretty busy, I don’t know if I’ll get in,” why not zip around the corner and head down to 108-109 Street for a nice meal with your Friends and Neighbours?
3.8 Power Rangers out of 5
p.s. Friends and Neighbours appears to either be expanding into the old Nokomis location, or adding some kind of pastry/dessert shop. Stay tuned on that one!
Story Meeting: Breakfast at Jojo’s Cafe
Okay, so let’s hop in the delorean (“Roads? Where we’re going, we won’t need roads…”)and head back in time to discuss Sunday. Jeff and I did what we now plan to do every Sunday – we went out for breakfast and hashed out stories for the week ahead.
This week we went to Jojo’s Cafe at La Piazza Dasee.
