Blah blah blah. Does anyone even read this? Welllll, I stopped in at the 401 this early afternoon for my breakfast, much deserved after cleaning someone else's house. Nothing builds an appetite more than cleaning up other people's toilets, whoa nelly, lemme tell you.
actually, no, let me not. So I spied this place the other day before they were officially open and wondered what it was gonna be about and I found out today. It's all about breakfast. After having to wait quite some time(new restaurant and all) I got a seat in at the counter(which was open all along-who knows why they couldn't sit me there asap, as i was the only one dining by my lonesome)and was handed a menu. There was a special that looked mighty fine(duck confit hash!) but i decided to go with something mellower and ordered "the ritual"-which you can guess includes, toast, potatoes, eggs, and meat(or non meat if you so choose), the meat option could be house made sausage patties, bacon, ham or a veggie sausage. I went with the real sausage and did not regret it. The potatoes were spot on and my eggs, over medium, were cooked well.The toast was also tasty.
I think they comped me my coffee which was nice since they made me wait for no real reason. I also got a grapefruit juice which was pretty tasty. I'd go back some day, as long as I'm not in a rush or with a large group-the biggest seating they have available is booths that could sit 6 at most-but 4 more comfortably.
Their dishwasher is British and made some impersonation of an American requesting butter. I guess that can be seen as mildly amusing, if you are bored. So...pros: good food, British dishwasher, you might get free coffee
Cons: waiting, small, having to ask for things-like butter, the bathroom soap was pretty much all the way out.
All in all I was happy to get to be part of the crowd experiencing a new place in its first week or so of business.