L'Œufrier (Atateken) — Restaurant in Montreal

Terrible terrible place. The waiter was rude, bossy, aggresive... I don't get it, either we ignored the guy on an app and he was getting payback or he was racist, who dafuq knows.

So we come in, I'm greeted in French, I greet back in French out of courtesy and the guy switches to English and offers me an English menu... so my friend and I switch back to English and thank him.

Even though there were plenty of empty tables, he sits us right next to the entrance... where the most traffic goes by. 5 minutes go by.... 10 minutes we look around, the waiter is looking busy at the counter. It was only after we called attention to our table twice, that he decides to come back to take our orders with an attitude and interrupting as if rushing us to say our order... As I barely finish saying my first order he swats the menu from my hand... even my friend was shocked and pointed it out.

So later he brings our drinks, my friend asks if he could get some honey... takes like another lifetime for him to bring some. A couple of customers come in and then we notice that they start getting served before us.

We noticed we had been waiting for almost 30 minutes and so we walk to the counter because we had enough and just want to pay for the drinks, and then the waiter had the audacity to tell me that our food was ready and that I had to pay for it, so I told him that our food was not in our table, then he points out: "It's right here" (points to the kitchen btw) so the tray is there getting cold or whatever, and I go: "Is that our table? I thought you sat us over there", I refused to pay and made him charge us only for the drinks.

If you're gonna have an attitude in order to repel unwanted patrons, DON'T ACT SURPRISED WHEN WE...

This is possibly the worst breakfast I have ever had. When googling breakfast locations, this chain came up a few times. The website and menu looked professional but on arriving it was nothing like it appeared online.

We decided to go ahead with it as it had good reviews.

Unfortunately our French is poor and the server’s English was limited so there was a bit of a language barrier, which isn’t a problem at all. However when our food arrived a Mac and cheese bowl was put in front of me (I had ordered a breakfast hash and my friend had ordered eggs benedict). Due to the language barrier I assumed that I had sorely misunderstood the menu. I started to dig in with my fork...the waitress came over and we realised that the Mac and cheese was in fact for the table next to us. This was rectified by the Mac and cheese being taken away and the correct meals being brought over.

The dish that was taken away from me didn’t even make it back to the kitchen before the waitress turned around and gave it to the table next to me. Luckily I hadn’t eaten any of it, however she removed it with my fork in so had no idea of this.

Move on to our meals...my breakfast hash was dry, the eggs over cooked and the fruit looked like it had been sitting out for a few days. The eggs on my friend’s meal were also cold and after a couple of bites she found the delicious addition of a hair. She didn’t want to make a fuss but for me that was the end of it and my stomach was turned.

This may not be a reflection on the other locations, however i wanted to write this review as the other online reviews didn’t reflect the poor quality...

After leaving this place, my stomach started cramping up. I’m a biological male but, surely, today i have learned some of the hardships my uterus born fellow humanoids deal with every month. The food was bland. It’s like if we got leftovers. We only got the tiny fried bit of the potatoes, not actual ones. The crêpes actually tasted like literal cardboard and chewing them was worthy of an arduous jaw workout. If i ate there every day, i would have a jawline stronger than Brad Pitt’s. I had the horrible idea of getting a poutine déjeuner. What was wrong with me? Hollandaise sauce, cheese and potatoes is surely a recipe for disaster. Spoiler alert, it is. I’ll be the first to admit i’m a pretty big backed person when it comes to the things i eat. This dish though. Holy mackerel! I swear to god i gagged just by looking at it after eating 3/4s. I had to cover it with a napkin so i could continue having a conversation with my beautiful and loving girlfriend without being utterly disgusted. Speaking of which, she also despised her food. She only got two slices of fruit. Blasphemous!! The waiters were great though. Two blessed ladies, i wish them well for their future. If you ever want to go there, just leave a bit of money for them and go buy some bread at a grocery store. Eating it raw and alone will be a better experience than going to this...