Agricola Street Brasserie — Restaurant in Halifax

Arrived for the weekend brunch and was very pleasantly surprised by the atmosphere and menu. Definitely a more focused menu with fewer options...which is a good thing.

Service staff was fantastic, easy recommendation on that alone. Atmosphere was low light, rustic, and very bespoke. A curated list of 50s and 60s music for your listening pleasure as well. My mother-in-law loved it.

The food was the low point however. I ordered the Brasserie Breakfast and a decaf iced coffee (Americano but who's counting). The iced Americano was fine but the breakfast...well let's get into it.

For $19 you get two eggs, sausage or bacon, four toast halves, beans, and a little tin of ketchup.

The potatoes were amazing. 11/10. Highlight of my day. I will dream of this moment because of the potatoes alone.

The sausage was well seasoned but fairly dry? Solid 3/5. The niether the beans or ketchup, nor the egg yolk helped.

I ordered my eggs over easy and they were undercooked. Clear/goopy whites are not my ideal over easy. Sadly, I was a whole egg in before I realized.

The beans were bland and very watery. Just thin beans sadly 😥.

And the toast was the most basic, generic white bread imaginable. Like for $19, with the decor and vintage music playing and with the potatoes being so, so good...basic white bread toast was not what I was expecting.

I also tried their cinnamon roll. More savory than expected; the cream cheese frosting wasn't fully sweetened.

Overall, breakfast was fine. Not sure I would come back to try it again, might have been an off day in the kitchen...and an off day for the...

Comfortable environment with absolutely great food. They have a $40 3 course meal that we took advantage of. I started with the octopus salad. As it was set before me i got an inviting whiff of charred meat and butter. The bowl was full of grilled little octupi with greens, in house pickled olives and greens and thin slivers of red onion and cherry tomatoes. The salad dressing gave a strong sour note that was somewhat overpowering but still good. My wife had their fish chowder which was rich and slightly sweet served with a scone. One of the best chowders I've had.

My main was the beef tenderloin which was well worth the supplementary $15. Very tender and served with an orange sauce that smelled like brown butter and gave depth to the meat. There was also a bone marrow salad which was interesting. Again a bit sour for me. Roasted bone marrow on the bone is delicious on its own and the salad over complicated the dish. My wife's yellow fin tuna was excellent as were the side of fried mashed potato balls.

I had dark chocolate pot de creme for dessert which was thick and intense. My wife had the lemon cheesecake with blackberry ice cream. I didnt try them as i didnt want anything tart...but i did try a beet crisp that was stuck in the cheese cake. Omg! I never understood beets. That earthy taste always made me feel like i was eating soil. But this was sweet and rich. Made me think of molasses. I have to use the word depth again.

This is the best restaurant i have been to in halifax. Perhaps one of the...

Came here as we are visiting and was recommended this spot but was pretty disappointed. We came in around 9pm. The restaurant did not appear busy, maybe 7-10 other tables in the restaurant and about 4-5 floor staff. We sat down and after a couple minutes had our drink order taken, the server said she was super busy and would be right back to take our food order. It wasn’t until 9:25 that our drinks came by, and she still did not take our food order. We were getting upset because we know the kitchen closes at 10.

It was not until about 9:35-9:40 our server took our food order, and before even collecting our dinner menus, she asked us if we will be getting dessert because if we do, she will have the kitchen stay later. This was kinda awkward because we didn’t know if we’d be full or not.

We got our oysters and given they were $38 for a dozen, we were disappointed how small they were. We also had nobody explain what the sauces that came with the oysters were.

The food was good but for the price and how the reviews of this place are, we found the food to be somewhat bland and lacking in salt, especially the tartare. My Partner is a chef and we have brother worked in restaurants for close to a decade, so we were underwhelmed by the entire experience.

The service was maybe a 4/10 but she was very polite and seemed personable. I think her name was either...