The Basic — Restaurant in Vancouver

What's interesting about this place is that it is so unassuming, modest and minimalistic that you wouldn't expect much by just walking by it. Welll.......

That morning's breakfast at this place was one of the best breakfasts I've had in a while. I'll tell you why:

First of, the eggs were cooked perfectly.....yes, it is possible to cook eggs the wrong way! I asked for sunny side up and the egg white with the yolk was both cooked to the right temperature proportionately....what that means is that to cook the white part is different than to cook the yolk. The only way you can get that right is either by watching it literally heat up and change its composition or by being an expert and knowing it's exact timing. It was juicy and flavorful.

The Italian sausage was crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside and cooked in butter, which you can taste. Yummmm.....and I don't even like sausage that much.

The baked beans....well ..they were just baked beans out of a can...but what I loved was that they flavour-paired it with this dish, which went perfectly. I went to town on these beans...and almost chuckled at myself half way throughout my breakfast.

Now probably the best part.....the potatoes. They were fresh cut. No. Not yesterday. Not last week stored in the walk-in cooler....fresh cut that morning and you could taste it. Cooked to a perfect golden in butter with a rosemary finish topping. I asked for my bacon to be extra crispy and that's exactly what I got and almost ordered an additional side order of it....that's how much I enjoyed it.

The service was casual, friendly and welcoming with a cozy...

A couple of friends and I came from Ontario for the weekend and came to this place for breakfast. We each had a different dish between the Blueberry pancakes, the Mess, and the Eggs Florentine. I can't speak for the others but since I ordered the Eggs Florentine I will give my opinion about that.

Pros: Location is really close to the water, very cute place, great service.

Cons: the food. Everything was unseasoned (even salt and pepper were needed). The hollandaise sauce was tasteless as well as the potatoes it came with. We asked for hot sauce and, in my opinion, it was just a watered-down Frank's Red Hot Sauce. Somehow both the SPINACH and the POTATOES (the potato skin that was in the food) were both extremely rubbery while I chewed them. Honestly felt like they just had a layer of oil on them while I ate. Either the tea or the water in the cups they gave, ended up giving me cotton-mouth (awkwardly dry mouth) which was unexpected and also unwelcome.

Overall a 2/5. Don't know about the rest of their food but I can definitely speak against the Eggs Florentine that...

I'm a regular at the basic, today we went in with my girlfriend and her daughter we ordered orange juice for the daughter they brought apple juice we asked her to exchange it she did. The restaurant had maybe five or six tables we placed our order and we waited we watched three to four other couples come in order and got their food first before we did.We paid for our coffee an orange juice,and left. The waitress said we have a full restaurant sir and I said well for other couples came in and ordered before us and were served before us, she said it all depends on what you ordered I said we ordered two bagels two sides of bacon and eggs Benny and everyone else was served before us. The waitress needs to go back and get customer service retraining because she laughed at us as we walked out of the restaurant. I went back in and spoke to the chef who I know from being irregular and said that she doesn't have to laugh at a customer when they're leaving, he apologized. The old basic staff was better than the new staff, I will never...