In a city like Toronto that has over 7,500 restaurants it is great to always find new places to go and experience great food ideas and spend time with friends. Our most recent lunch spot was a restaurant called Starving Artist Waffles and Espresso.

With seven locations in and around the GTA there is probably one not to far from where you are, and I would recommend a visit. A busy restaurant with a line and you are only seated when your whole party arrives and it is important to note that it is cash only.

As the name suggests their decor focuses on local artists and they change out the art every six weeks. If you are an artist and don’t know about this, I would check it out.

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The premise of the restaurant is boldly stated right on the menu:

Warning: Everything is made of waffles. On waffles. Between waffles or made in a waffle iron.

One would think that having a menu that is only waffle related would make it easy to decide right? Wrong. Do you want sweet or savory? Do you want eggs benny on a potato waffle (yes you heard correct a potato waffle) or smoked salmon with cream cheese between two waffles with dill IN the waffles. These were just a few of the choices that our group chose for our lunches. The menu was two full pages and too many options to list, but you can read the full menu here.

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The sides were either a green salad or a fruit salad and a choice of maple baked beans or homemade potato salad. a bit odd but both were so tasty and complimentary to the food we were eating.

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I chose a savory sandwich that had chicken , cucumbers and their ‘house sauce’. I know that our friends in the southern states have chicken and waffles as a regular menu item. This was not fried chicken, but it was very tasty. It was strange to want to put maple syrup on the waffle with the chicken and cucumber in the sandwich but the flavours melded well and it was enjoyable.

We were celebrating our friends birthday and looked at the dessert waffles before we started and we knew we were going to have to sample something decadent. We opted for the Split This! …. Waffled banana, ice cream, strawberries, chocolate, caramel, strawberry syrup, whipped cream. You did read correctly, the banana was waffled. It says on the menu made for 2. We were four and it was HUGE. See for yourself

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There are many different menu items and I would go back and try something different. Overall a very delicious experience to check off our Toronto food bucket list.

Where are we off to next – stay tuned to find out!

Please feel free to let me know if you have a great place for us to try in the future Ladies who brunch days out.