"...as plate after plate of fluffy poached eggs, cartilaginous peameal, and lakes of sunshiney goo continued to pile up over time, I realized that if I don't start catalogueing these excursions in some formal manner, a great field of human knowledge would be lost. Hence, the Benedict Chronicles..."

Is it possible for a breakfast to be boring? That's what the Eggs Benedict ("classic") at Eggspectation was: fuckin' dull. I'm getting snoozy just thinking about it.

Admittedly, I could have helped matters by trying any of the 8 variant bennies available on the Eggspectation menu, but I wasn't feeling it. And frankly, if your core benny can't pass muster, what are the other ones really going to offer me?

The only thing the Eggspectation benny contributes to the Beneverse is the use of gruyere cheese on pretty much every offering on the menu. It's interesting, but the flavour is sufficiently subsumed by the rest of the meal that it doesn't even add the looked-for "spike" which would take the dish out of the mundane.

As a general rule, if your restaurant has "egg" in the name I expect better things. Instead, I'm getting bored just writing this. Time to give my single egg out of four, and go.

Eggspectation is located at 220 Yonge Street, in Toronto. The Benedict Chronicles is an ongoing, non-regular series.