| Monday | 8 am - 11 pm |
| Tuesday | 8 am - 11 pm |
| Wednesday | 8 am - 11 pm |
| Thursday | 8 am - 11 pm |
| Friday | 8 am - 11 pm |
| Saturday | 8 am - 11 pm |
| Sunday | 8 am - 11 pm |
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We went to Pigeon Café on Monkland this afternoon for a late day breakfast. Called ahead to make sure they serve breakfast all day & that we weren't ordering breakfast items at a time they dont normally serve it. Numerous breakfast items were 100% on the lunch menu. We were VERY disappointed. I ordered 2 eggs over-easy with grilled salami, breakfast potatoes, & white toast. The eggs were fried hard & crispy, the grilled salami was paper thin, & had obviously been sitting around for quite a while. It was dry & inedible. The deep friend potatoes had been left-over from lunch, dry, dehydrated, & cold, finally the toast was unbuttered. My fiancee ordered the Avocado toast, the Avocado was not ripe & hard to cut & eat.
The restaurant was not busy at all, only 3 other tables & 3 or 4 wait staff. This is when you should be at your best bcuz you don't have an excuse like'we were busy'. If you can't excel when it's slow & you're not busy, then either you're just bad or you don't care. As a (now), retired Master Chef, I would NEVER serve food like this at any time, let alone when the restaurant is almost empty & I have more than enough time to get it right. I hate giving bad reviews as it can really affect a business, but when it's this bad & there is no reason for it, it has to be said.. in saying that, I also believe owners/managers need to know whats going on. They can't fix something if they don't know its broken. Based on todays visit, I do not recommend Pigeon Café on Monkland. ⭐?⭐?View more
Discovered this vibrant place during our recent short trip to Montreal & our craving for some good European breakfast & man this thing blew our expectations!!! Starting from the service & courtesy, really top notch. We were with 3 kids & we felt welcomed.
The ambiance & decor are nice. Really adds a positive vibe to this place. We decided to go with their shakshuka, pancakes, & croissants along side their coffees. Nothing disappointed us; infact tasted very good. Not bad on the pocket as well. 10/10.View more
The pigs in a blanket & their version of chick-fil-a waffle fries are a 10/10. The rest lacks taste & some dishes do not taste great at all. The breakfast sandwich is decent, but overpriced as it is an easy dish to make phenomenal with very little ingredients. The Shakshouka tastes like dish water & I unfortunately do not want to go try other dishes, as the service was lacking both times.
The first time it was getting busy & so we gave the server the benefit of the doubt, but I came a second time with someone else & could not for the life of me get proper service or the bill for that matter. & no information as to how it worked once we were finished. Lack of communication.
I wanted this to be a cool brunch place since Hopkins closed a while back on monkland, but this is far from a replacement.View more
favourite breakfast spot. delicious food & great serviceView more
This was my second visit to this café, although the decor is quaint, pretty lights with indoor trees & plants. A blend of Bombay like decor, this place has fallen very short as far as food, quality & service. Very basic. For the first time in my dining experience anywhere I have had to stop a waiter 8 times the to make sure that I had what I ordered (because they got it wrong 2e ice) & everything I needed like my coffee on refill, jam, ketchup & milk. I ordered a plain breakfast plate with poached eggs that were undercooked. The sourdough bread was stale & the taste was awful. I also ordered a slice of pecan pie ( that I took only 1 bite out of & the waitress didn't even ask if I wanted to take away or if it was satisfactory ) & this too was not fresh & the taste extremely disappointing & bland at best. As I waited with dirty plates in front of me for almost an hour after I had done eating was I only then presented with a question if I wanted the bill. Quite frankly overpriced for simplicity of what I ordered & no quality. Needless to say, I will not be returning here again especially when this busy street offers a variety of places & cafés to eat at for the same price.View more
The best experience ever . Last week came with my mother-in-law & a friend we had breakfast . What a fantastic day first the waitress GRACE absolutely amazing my mother in law & friend 89yeats old couldn't believe how attentive & the excellent service we received. We asked for some milk usual you need to ask a few times,place is busy you can forget but not Grace she was back immediately. Breakfast arrived quickly & was delicious . The place was busy but Grace had it under control & a smile on her face. We asked for extra coffee didn't have to wait .Grace thank you 😉 The best Breakfast ever . Bravo Pigeon cafe we will be back . Grace is a keeper .View more
Great breakfast spot one of the best beef salami in the town.View more
Such a cute spot - went there for a quick breakfast after dropping off kids at school nearby. Had the steak & eggs dish with a chai latte, everything was DELISH! Especially the chai latte it was the best I've ever had in a long time! Service was great, the restaurant environment itself was cozy & friendly. Highly recommend:)View more
Best restaurant on Monkland... for breakfast, lunch & dinner. Cozy atmosphere & original decor. & of course yummy food.View more
Just had a great breakfast at the pigeon cafe & our server Colton was awesome & gave us some great site seeing tips since we're from out of town. Also get the side of hot sauce they make. It's amazing!View more
2 expensive for what you get but the place is nice. 60$ breakfast for 2 😌 won't get me twice !!View more
We had the breakfast sandwich & blueberry pancakes with the fruit salad as a side. Everything was delicious as always!!View more
One of the best places in Monkland st. For breakfast. Welcoming staff, fresh juice & high quality foods are everything you need for a perfect brunch.View more
I was at the restaurant before it was this one & they refurbished it beautifully. The service was superb from the two slender & iron deficient guys that were looking like they needed a good meal, which was ironic. The young lady with the leopard top & great nails & really good eye contact, was most helpful. The menu was broken down into half complete booze so I guess it's abusatorium, & then one small section for breakfast but bigger than the other sections which were called lunch & supper. My meal came highly recommended from one of the guys & the waitress & it was very weird. But it was interesting & it did have some interesting taste as well as appearance. But poached eggs buried underneath some sort of red sauce with a bunch of stuff in it & a bun cut in half & then hacked again & toasted & the old piece of Middle Eastern bread & a nice lump of lebna goat cheese, & it was certainly something I hadn't seen before. My buddy Angelo, former owner of a famous Italian restaurant, had something more traditional & he liked his. The fries were surprisingly entertaining because they were shaped more like a waffle except with crisscross pieces with spaces between them. Very creative, reasonably tasty but definitely visually entertaining.. Both the excitement & the drawback all at once was the acoustics that had everybody's conversation from every square into the place in your ears. It was loud. But that doesn't mean that's bad... As I do go to an Italian restaurant in the West Island of Montreal that's very big & acoustically also challenging where you walk in & you have to practically yell at your friend who's standing right beside you to be heard. This was kind of like that . Definitely an interesting place & probably as the bar even more interesting. . Would I go back again for just the main course & what it cost, it's okay. Certainly a lot cheaper than covid-19 prices in many places but nothing cheap about the place at all otherwise. . One thing I don't care for however is their machine that takes your credit cards & it starts at 18% & goes up from there. The last two buttons on the screen to choose from are assigning your income to them & then assigning your home to them. Hahaha kidding but it felt like that because 15% was under choose another percentage. & remember that you're not supposed to tip & count the percentage on the tax but before tax. So when you pay 15% you're actually paying a fair bit more. There was no need for it to start at 18% tip! I find that... off-putting. . Otherwise I'd give the restaurant somewhere between a 3. 6 & a 4.1 . I deleted people's faces in my photosView more
Amazing food! The portion size is also more than enough. I had the pancakes & almost didn't finish my breakfast.View more
Ordered a takeout breakfast from the cafe, overall okay, but disappointed as the pancake wasn't blueberry as requested, & it was a bit too salty. Additionally, paid for an extra bagel that was missing from the order. Hoping for better accuracy & service next time. 🍽️View more
Great coffee & breakfast, lunch & dinner options. Highly recommendView more
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