On the way to find our room at the first night of our stay at Park Hyatt, we saw this lovely restaurant. We checked out their menu and we were so happy to know that the restaurant is basically open all day, they just have different menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And they serve fresh oysters! Our favourite!
We decided to have lunch there the next day. We were given a nice table by the window. There were quite few people around, gave a nice ambiance to the place. Comfortable chairs and good size table with plain white table cloth. Perfect. But we were a bit surprised to read brunch menu as it was Saturday. We checked the time and it was actually ten minutes before twelve noon. So we thought we were too early. Not a big deal, we would not mind to wait a little bit. Passed twelve noon, we asked for their lunch menu. But apparently the brunch menu is their lunch menu. How odd, we thought. We were expecting their normal lunch menu with normal meals and oysters, not scrambled eggs and sandwiches. Luckily the restaurant manager came to assist us and ordered fresh oysters from their kitchen.
About twenty minutes later, came our fresh oysters. They looked rather sad, to be honest. The colour of shells turned a bit yellow and very little meat in them. None of the oysters were off though (Thank God!)
It just because of they were so small, a dozen of them literally went within two minutes! We ordered another dozen. When they arrived, they looked just as sad. We would not dare to order some more, we turned to a portion of crab cake each. That was very nice. Very tasty, freshly made crab cakes served with watercress salad with balsamic dressing. Perfect combination. We had it with Canadian Pinot Gris from Niagara. They went down very well.
As time progressing, we noticed that the restaurant staffs were getting ready for afternoon tea. Finding ourselves still able to manage few finger sandwiches, we ordered one afternoon tea to share. Our loose leaf Earl Grey tea arrived first, then a plate of savouries followed by scones and mini cakes. Not too bad considering. But it would have been better had the scones served with fresh clotted cream and home made strawberry jam instead of something out of a pot that it was so runny and we could hardly taste any strawberry in it.
Have not even finished the cakes and tea, one of the waiters dropped us the bill. We refused politely. We thought it was incorrect, considering this is a restaurant not an English pub where you pay when you put your order. We would ask for the bill when we are ready. Not long after, we decided to sign the bill (that was left purposely behind us) and we left. No thank you and no good bye from the staff. Made us wonder has the service industry gone completely in western society? Yet during our stay in Asia recently we found the hotel and restaurant staff where we have stayed sincerely could not do enough for us. Which one would you prefer??
On the second morning of our stay, we purposely starting the day early because we wanted to try the breakfast menu. We chose a portion of eggs benedict and canadian three eggs omelette. They both turned out delicious! Followed by a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice and a cup of tea, then we were set to beat Toronto freezing morning.
Impressed with our first breakfast, we went for another the following morning. This time we tried the west coast three eggs omelette and traditional english breakfast. The omelette was as good as the canadian, but the english traditional was slightly disappointing. The sausage was a bit greasy and the poached eggs were cold when they arrived on the table. Never mind, we cannot expect everything to turn out perfect every single time. At least, we had a healthy breakfast to start the day.
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