Dive Right In

After a Saturday morning yoga class, attended by a Canadian celebrity, I was off to grab some brunch. Being in the Ossington and Dundas area, I stopped off at The Lakeview Diner. When I first moved to Toronto, this eatery had become a has-been: sad 70s furnishing, perpertually empty. A few years ago, with a change in ownership, the serendipity of the night-life explosion in the area, it acquired hipster-cred and is now packing them in. Oddly enough, the decor hasn't change.

The menu has changed a bit. Still primarily your basic breakfast eat, it tries to offer better quality ingredients like organic eggs. I ordered The Standard ($9.50): 2 eggs over-easy, maple sausage, and rye bread. The eggs were competently done but could be more golden. I liked the slight sweetness of the sausage. The soft home fries, cut like potato chips, were easy to roll up to dip in the ketchup. Finish it off with some greens and fruit and you have your average brunch: better than some, but not compelling enough that you'd go out of your way to eat here.