Allô mon Coco Marché Central — Restaurant in Montreal

A friend and I went to eat brunch there. I ordered the Special with 2 eggs (poached), bacon, sausages, ham and a banana pancake which I asked to be changed for blueberry (which they told me cost $1 extra). Friend ordered the Grilled Veggies casserole with scrambled eggs. I got the cubed potatoes and she got the half-pureed ones.

The place was beautiful and large, but if I have one complaint, it's that the person who seated us didn't ask where we wanted to be seated despite the place being largely empty at the time of our arrival. We moved ourselves to a quieter spot and let the waiters know.

Service was fine: the food arrived within 30 minutes of ordering and our main waiter was very friendly and accommodating, able to speak both French and English. One thing though is it's not consistent: several waiters came to speak to us so we were never sure who to ask for something as simple as a coffee refill. On that topic, I asked twice for a coffee refill and finally had to get up and ask someone to literally pour it in my cup to get it. In short, only our primary waiter was reliable.

The food was a bit on the ridiculous side: each meal is clearly supposed to be for a single person but everything is doubled to exaggerated proportions: The pancake was not only oversized in terms of width, but also thickness, to the point of not being very good because it was far too doughy. And though I asked for a blueberry pancake, the blueberries looked as though they'd simply been smashed in the middle of the pancake, there was no real blueberry taste. There was also no syrup at our table. The two pieces of bacon that came with my dish, apart from being oversized, also lacked a bit in crispness. For some reason, they seem to believe that ordering two eggs means they should come with two very thick slices of toast, each cut in half. Contrary to what's shown in the picture for this dish, the amount of cubed potatoes you get is excessively disproportionate to the rest of your dish. My dish arrived with the equivalent of a whole cup of potatoes and I could only finish a third of this rather enormous portion.

The sausages were a decent size but far too soft on the inside, not a good texture for a proper sausage at all. The ham was nothing special either, not very tasteful. The beans were not too bad but I would not recommend the creton (pork) as the taste and texture were not much different from canned tuna or chicken and definitely not as good as a proper pâté.

The eggs were good, as were our fruit (mine being decorative) and my friend's veggies. Ironically enough, my decorative fruit was actually the better part of my meal. The free coffee refills saved this meal for me as everything was generally too thick and too much and it made me constantly thirsty. Each of these meals is made for two people: I had to take a doggy bag for the remainder of my potatoes and my friend could also barely finish her meal. It's simply too much food for one person, and not the best quality...

I was there today. I was waiting for my friends to arrive. We were supposed to be 4 but i arrived in advance. The time that I arrived, they had plenty of available tables but they refused to seat me and said they cant seat me before everyone arrive. That really does not make sense as I said i am going to seat and even put my order while waiting for my friends. They said its impossible. There was absolutely no customer at their bar. After few minutes, i asked if i can only take a chair at the bar to order a coffee because i really needed a coffee. They rejected and said if we give you a chair at the bar, then you cant move to a table when your friends arrive!!! What’s wrong with you people? reject a customer like this with zero respect accommodation does not seem right at all! Only thing that i wanted was a cup of coffee when I was waiting at a corner that was no customer! If it wasnt for my friends, i would have left immediately but i am not going to go back to this place never ever!

Update: after they left the response as you see with the link below, I went on link and sent a message to the customer care team as it was requested in the response below. Just would like to update everyone that their customer care team HAS NOT REACHED OUT to me. it has been 2 weeks! just to let you know that a simple response like this does not mean that they...

If you want death by high cholesterol level it's the place to go. Got their Sunshine breakfast plate which included 2 eggs, 3 long strips of not well cooked bacon, oily potatoes excessively topped with two kinds of cheese, a huge, buttery toast and a crepe filled in with whipped cream. I've only ate about 15-20% of my meal and I could already feel all the fat and oil all over my system, it was cringy fatty. They could've definitely put together a plate with more balance between tastes not just oil and salt and fat, eurk! And they could definitely put less oil and cheese on the potatoes and less whipped cream in the crepe and less butter on the toast or put it on the side! Take note also that it was an early breakfast, I ate about 35% of the plate, and I felt bloated the entire day, skipped my lunch and afternoon snack, the next meal I ate that day was at 8pm. The table next to us ordered more healthy plates that seemed like all fruits and veggies, but they barely ate any of it and left, for what reason I don't know but probably they didn't like their food either. But in short, I felt like I was in epic meal time! And I don't like that show. Bye...