November 5th, 2010
Golden Egg
Tsar Alexander III used to give his wife, Empress Maria, an ornately jeweled Fabergé egg as a gift every year. We’re just happy if our man makes ours over easy.
We’re getting our eggs any way we want them at Fabergé, the new Mile End breakfast palace fit for a Tsarina. We enjoyed the contrasting textures of crisp phyllo pastry, sautéed spinach, and hollandaise of the Mediterranean Benedict ($13), relished in the Eggs in a Nest ($11), with thickly sliced cheese bread artfully arranged to conceal a melting yolk center, and delighted in the Redcakes, fluffy buttermilk pancakes smothered in strawberries ($10). Add a bottle of bubbly with five different juices, including blood orange and lychee, to mix-your-own Mimosa ($35) and we felt like Russian royalty.
And that’s no yolk.
Restaurant Fabergé, 25 Fairmount Ave. W., Montreal, 514-903-6649, www.restofaberge.com
