Toronto is getting its very own Eggslut
It will be the LA-based brunch chain’s first Canadian location
While some brunch-goers stick to the same order, hangover after hangover, others have zero loyalty to egg style, shuffling from soft scramble to sunny-side-up to poached in a single weekend. And honestly? There’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, it’s practically a movement.
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Just ask Alvin Cailan, the Los Angeles–based chef who launched Eggslut (yes, that’s its name) as a food truck in 2011 before turning it into a globally recognized breakfast-obsessed brand. What started as a mobile egg-sando-slinging kitchen with a cult following now has permanent locations across the UK, Australia and Japan—a country hornier for eggs than Canadians are for Heated Rivalry.
Now, the brand with a name that would make your grandma blush is about to make its Canadian debut with two locations in Toronto: one on King West, in the former home of Porchetta and Co., and a bit later on, another at Sankofa Square, across from Shake Shack.
The menu features a chaste house-made chicken sausage, cheddar and egg sandwich as well as the kitchen’s signature Slut, a loose (sorry) interpretation of a breakfast sandwich built with a cage-free coddled egg on top of potato purée and finished with grey salt and chives. Slices of baguette come on the side for mopping up spilled yolk—or maybe just your brow. When did breakfast get so sexy?
Erin Hershberg is a freelance writer with nearly two decades of experience in the lifestyle sector. She currently lives in downtown Toronto with her husband and two children.
