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School Bakery and Café
- 70 Fraser Ave. (at Liberty St.) • View on map »
- 416-588-0005
Chef Brad Moore’s menus read like Homeric epics of gustatory debauchery: the taco- and ceviche-heavy Mexican dinner menu makes choosing a single dish difficult, and the pancake and eggs brunch menu features a number of promising morning-after-the-night-before remedies. Unfortunately, the kitchen fails to live up to the potential. Juicy, chili-inflected fried chicken with tantalizingly crispy skin dazzles, but the more authentic south-of-the-border supper items, like an insipid red snapper ceviche and soggy, undercooked churros, demonstrate clear failures of execution. Brunch follows a regrettably similar pattern. Fluffy pancakes heaped with sweet blackberries and blueberries soften the frustration of waiting 20 minutes to order; flaccid home fries swimming in grease and doughy, bland cardamom biscuits do not. Worse, the coffee is watery and bitter. Mains $15–$24.
70 Fraser Ave. (at Liberty St.) | This location is wheelchair accessible
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