Best Weekend Brunch Spot in Vancouver

[Distill3d]

any suggestions?

[MistyMountainHop]

Here's a couple of my favourites:

Bert's (Main St) - Super-cheap, super-good

Wooden Shoe Café (Cambie St) - The "side project" of John Dys, the owner of the Dutch Panekoek House. Same great food, funkier place (check out the collection of beer glasses).

[Holden West]

Subeez Cafe, at Homer and Smithe. Great brunch, hip atmosphere, most items $10 or less.

[EastVanMark]

Pan Pacific Five Sails. Great food with an unbeatable view.

[Robynobotica]

I tend to go here:

- Subeez
- Melriches
- Provence Marinaside
- Joe's Grill
- Milestone's

Subeez is my regular haunt. You can go there and chill out and have brunch as late as 4pm. It's low key, it doesn't feel like a greasy spoon, the food's consistent, the service is good, and they have a good mix of traditional and non-traditional items on the brunch menu. I love their eggs florentine.

Melriches in Yaletown serves breakfast until 3pm. The new ownership must be Mexican because they have new Mexican items on the breakfast menu, including huevos a la inanil... (scrambled eggs in chipotle served with beans and warm tortillas). I like the green salsas they use on their other eggs dishes too.

Provence Marinaside's good when it's warm and you want to splurge. I don't go there often, but every time I've been, the service has been excellent and the food, delicious.

Joe's Grill for the truck-stop diner experience in the West End. They serve breakfast until they close, which is some time after 5pm. The food's not fancy, but it's the place I go if I'm craving one of those huge hungry man platters with bacon, eggs, sausages, pancakes, toast, hash browns, etc.

Milestone's is somewhere I used to go frequently years ago and I always liked their brunch options. One of those safe bets when you feel like that kind of restaurant experience and you don't feel like greasy spoon.

[SFUVancouver]

Seb's Market Cafe at Broadway and Carolina Street (one block west of Fraser).

Absolutely fantastic food, great vibe, nice people. Expect a line-up. A couple Sundays ago my girlfriend and I had brunch there and by the time we were done there were 15 people waiting, and the place only seats about twice that. I had a camembert and strawberry omelet with local organic free-range eggs (it's East Vancouver after all, of course everything is going to be organic) and coffee (organic fair trade, the whole East Van thing again). She had banana bread french toast with freshly squeezed orange juice. Ridiculously good and not too expensive either, about 25 bucks with a good tip.

I cannot recommend Seb's highly enough. Truly one of East Vancouver's best kept secrets. Live jazz most nights too!

From Google Local:

Seb's Market Cafe
592 Broadway East
Vancouver, BC V5T 1X5, Canada
(604) 298-4403

[MistyMountainHop]

^ Seb's is awesome.

[giallo]

Zen Cafe on Yew St.
The best omelets I've had in awhile. Expect a line.

[raggedy13]

^Great place.

I really like Seb's as well. I haven't been there for breakfast, just dinner, but it was great and I loved the live jazz.

I would've said the Homer Cafe, but I suppose that is closed down now.

I quite like "The Diner" in Point Grey on 10 Ave, across from the Safeway. It's a British place. It's a little kitschy inside and all but it's perfect nonetheless and the British Breakfasts are awesome. It's all good authentic British fare, complete with a 'cheeky' old British woman running the place/serving. Don't just order a water to drink and finish everything on your plate or she'll be after you.

There is also the Sunshine Diner on Broadway, a block or two east of Mcdonald. It's kind of a 50s theme diner but the breakfasts are quite tasty. I mostly go for the eggs benedict personally.

[j4893k]

^Enigma, just a block away from The Diner at 10th and Trimble, is also a great place to get brunch.

[mezzanine]

Cafe Bretange, Jervis off robson. It used to be owned by an old french couple, who would sing and argue in french, sometimes in rapid succession. Now owned by a younger, more placid couple, but the crepes have always been good.