In praise of the Greasy Spoon

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This is one thing that Canada has imported from the UK... and made better. Stay with me here - just imagine a greasy spoon that also does decent coffee, bang-up pancakes, in fact a place where you can get steak and eggs with pancakes (and they even do the HP sauce too)... and BTW Canadian back bacon is just so much better than the British equivalent. My favourite local greasy spoon is called 'Peter's Place' and it's awesome.

Do you have a Ricky's near you or is it a BC chain only. If you do, do you think it counts as a greasy spoon?

 

[Fnaar]

This is one thing that Canada has imported from the UK... and made better. Stay with me here - just imagine a greasy spoon that also does decent coffee, bang-up pancakes, in fact a place where you can get steak and eggs with pancakes (and they even do the HP sauce too)... and BTW Canadian back bacon is just so much better than the British equivalent. My favourite local greasy spoon is called 'Peter's Place' and it's awesome.

Fnaar likes this...
Yes, I went to a rather good caff in Vancouver once... don't remember the name unfortunately...

 

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Fnaar likes this...
Yes, I went to a rather good caff in Vancouver once... don't remember the name unfortunately...

Here's a taste of Canada...

http://www.rickys-re...ts.com/?_p=home

I was totally defeated by the Yukon Big Bite breakfast

 

[dellzeqq]

Rosa's Cafe, Hoxton. Lamb chop and kidneys with your sausage, egg, bacon and mushy peas. That's a breakfast!

 

[Crackle]

Pete's Eats Llanberis, pint mugs of tea and a variety of fried breakfast options. They also do healthier food and veggy options, yum.

 

[Arch]

Arbut's, Whitby. We were there after our Friday night ride to somewhere random, and there were real fishermen eating in there. And goths.

Not quite a greasy spoon, but Heike's Imbiss in Pocklington does a good sausage butty, and other stuff-with-chips, and you get to overhear all the local old folk gossiping.

 

[surfdude]

smokeys joes just off A30 near blackwater in cornwall .bloody brill . they do a hungrys mans and its massive .just love it

 

[ThePainInSpain]

Had lunch today in a good old fashioned greasy spoon.
Much as I love the cafe culture of say Spain or Italy, you can't beat the formica-table-topped-tea-splashing-bacon-smelling Greasy Spoon.

Obviously not had breakfast in an English bar on the Costa del Sol, and still ashtrays in the middle of the tables.

Used to have 2 or 3 a week until last year, ................ feckin blood pressure , cholesterol, and age

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Do you have a Ricky's near you or is it a BC chain only. If you do, do you think it counts as a greasy spoon?

Never seen one around here... I guess there are a western thing - there's a huge east-west divide in Canada - they are practically different countries.

 

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I still occasionally fantasise about the breakfasts we had in British Columbia. It took a bit to get used being asked if we wanted a fork n knife as it was misheard a couple of times.

 

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Thanks FM.

 

[HelenD123]

This is one thing that Canada has imported from the UK... and made better. Stay with me here - just imagine a greasy spoon that also does decent coffee, bang-up pancakes, in fact a place where you can get steak and eggs with pancakes (and they even do the HP sauce too)... and BTW Canadian back bacon is just so much better than the British equivalent. My favourite local greasy spoon is called 'Peter's Place' and it's awesome.

Mmmm, my tour has been fuelled by cooked breakfasts. Just love the hashbrowns. They don't do mushrooms though .

 

[HelenD123]

I'm confused now. They do all the hash brown and pancake stuff in Chicago and the American side of the Great Lakes, but they do mushrooms (very well), Do they not do them in Canada? I'm sure I've had them there.

In my extensive experience there's been never a sniff of a mushroom in either Canada or the US pacific coast. Pancakes seem to be more of a western thing I've found. I didn't encounter them in eastern Canada.

 

[Baggy]

Am sat here now with a tear in my eye, thinking about the sadly departed Borough Market Cafe. Their bubble and squeak wrapped in bacon was a delight.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

In my extensive experience there's been never a sniff of a mushroom in either Canada or the US pacific coast. Pancakes seem to be more of a western thing I've found. I didn't encounter them in eastern Canada.

That's because you didn't come down to Kingston... I told you you should! Seriously though, there's no shortage of pancakes in Ontario IME.

On hashbrowns - I've found they tend to be in US chains, I find, but there are all kinds of variations on homefries. But you are right, mushrooms don't seem to be that common in breakfasts.