Cora

5 stars for your service. Great place. Great food and awesome staff. Wow Unilocal review are so great. Going Back Forsure :)))

I don’t understand they take my order we eat doesn’t check up on us one small glass of water after eating whole
Meal nothing to clear my throat very disappointed !

I’ve been to Cora’s before so check out my other review!
Cora’s is located attached to Sundridge mall near the Starbucks. I work in the NE so it’s pretty close by. Lunch was coming up, I even brought my own lunch but its Friday and I wasn’t feelin’ my lunch. I browsed some Instagram photos and a food photo with some hollandaise popped up and I immediately thought of Coras. I asked a co-​worker if he wanted to join me on my Cora run and he agreed. We arrived at around 11:45AM and there was a group of 5 in front of us so it wasn’t a long wait at all. They’ve got a patio but it was blazing hot out so we opted to stay inside.
It’s been over a year, maybe two since I have visited, I forgot how cartoony and cute it is inside! It looks like they’ve got new items to the menu so that got me excited. I noticed they’ve got new pancakes, waffles and other plates but what caught my eye was the breakfast poutine. I was actually thinking about OEB’s breakfast poutine when I saw this but I wanted some meat. I continued to browse but decided to go with what I normally get which is the Cora Special but I added a side of hollandaise. Steve went with the 10 Star Omelette. Our waitress was really friendly and making some jokes here and there.
Food arrived and I had to remind her about my hollandaise sauce and then I got my eggs poached but they were rubbery looking. I’m not the one to send things back because I feel bad, but I wanted my eggs so I asked for new ones. The fruit was ok, didn’t look quite as fresh but still edible. The food was very mediocre, nothing special. The ham was a bit dry, but the crêpe was nice. I knew what I was in for though so I didn’t expect more than just food to be in my belly. I do still really enjoy their smooth hollandaise sauce. I can put that s*** on anything! I got a side to dip my potatoes in and it was the best part. Steve seemed to like his meal but he’s been to Coras before so it was the same old. Our original waitress didn’t come by to fill Steve’s coffee but some other waitress stopped to top my water.
It’s always nice to have that little sweet maple fudge piece they give you after you pay.

I won’t be coming back to this place or any Cora’s. The food was cold when it came out, service was lacking, and you pay too much for what you get. I had two pieces of cinnamon brioche French toast, some fruit, three little sausages and one egg, yes you read it right, one egg. Who serves one egg? If you scramble it, you do t get much. Had mine over easy and it was way over cooked. Don’t waste your money folks and couldn’t see any reason for the hype.

Never again. Stood in line a ridiculous amount of time even by Cora standards. Finally after the groups of 2 and 4 being seated, I was up. I asked if it was ok if I sat on the patio as it was open and it was nice out. Got a «Yeah I guess so» from a less than enthusiastic hostess. Got seated got my menu and waited for my server to come by to grab my drink order. And I waited. And waited. 10 minutes elapsed. The other patrons on the patio got served their drinks and had their orders taken and I sat. Parched. Hungry. And on the verge of losing my sh! t. Finally I ducked my head inside and motioned for a server. I caught someone’s eye and she came out. «Oh. You need your bill. Let me get your server!» And she left. She left and no one came back. I went inside and went up to the till, and the lady there goes, «How was everything? Do you have your bill?» I politely informed her that I didn’t have a bill because I’d basically been ignored and hadn’t even gotten my order taken. She looked at me and didn’t even bother to apologize and when I asked for a manager she told me the manager was unavailable to deal with anything at that moment. Yet I could clearly see the manager chatting to a server across the room. Never ever again

Came for a late breakfast Sunday morning, and as we expected, they were quite busy. The initial wait of 15 minutes to be seated was completely reasonable as far as I’m concerned, and our waitress was good, but unfortunately, that’s all I can really compliment on this visit…
Being my first time eating here, I figured that I would order their equivalent of a meal I have had elsewhere, partly because it appealed to me, and partly as a comparison point to another restaurant I like, so I ordered the strawberry crêpe with custard. This is where it goes downhill.
To start, it took more than 20 minutes for the food to arrive. Busy I understand, but most of these breakfast items can be cooked in just a couple of minutes. How small is the grill? However, my disappointment only grew when the food arrived.
First impression was that both my wife’s order, and my own looked delicious. Upon closer inspection though, I realized the following:
a. My wife’s toast was burnt.
b. The strawberry in my wife’s fruit was kind of sad looking.
c. The strawberries in the crêpe were not what I would consider acceptable. Many had big green or scarred parts on them that I would have cut off personally, or were simply too ripe (as in soft or mushy) and should never have been used in the first place.
d. The custard was very thin, and kind of bland.
To be fair, my wife’s omelet was good, and the meats were fine, so there was that.
I guess my biggest issue is that the attention to detail, and quality of the ingredients being used just didn’t seem to be there.
While my wife has eaten here three times now, and still likes their food, I probably won’t be going back. It just wasn’t good enough in my opinion.

This Cora’s was darn near identical to every other Cora’s I’ve been to: absolutely packed on a Sunday morning. The wait time was reasonable, at fifteen minutes and the food delivery time was also reasonable.
We had a very friendly server, however our coffee cups made it to empty pretty darn quickly and then stayed there, bottomed out, for awhile.
The calibre of the coffee, for a place that does breakfast, is pretty lacklustre. I mean, surely there is a wealth of knowledge available from the myriad of coffee roasters and coffee shops in the Northern Hemisphere… plus, you know, the Southern Hemisphere, where they grow the stuff. Now we’re up to a globe’s worth of available knowledge.
I can understand the trade-​off between durable, small catering coffee mugs not being shattered and only holding so much coffee, so as not to waste any, but coffee is pretty darn cheap. Coffee was something like $ 2.75 a cup and you’ve got to figure that most of that pricing is to recover costs from labour, not from the coffee, creamer or sugar. It may work to trick your wait staff into being attentive, except when that backfires, as it did in this case, and your clientele doesn’t like it when someone interrupts the caffeine IV supply.
My suggestions: more staff, larger coffee mugs, or beverage-​patrollers for the super-​busy shifts, whose only responsibility is to produce and serve more beverages.

I love the food but the place is too small especially when I have my kids with me

When this location first opened I could echo the other reviewers emphatically. Now? Not so much. Their hallmarks of quality in food and service feel diminished. Sure, they can serve a good meal and I’ve seen some good staff… But it’s really inconsistent, and I find my self hesitant to go back. Disappointing, since it use to be over-​the-​top awesome, every time.

In lieu of pancakes and waffles, Cora offers omelettes, skillets and crepes, with lots of fruit and vegetables. The service was great (Melissa was an amusing and frequent visitor) and the price was appropriate. I can’t think of any place I’d rather eat breakfast.

I love CORA, this is one of the breakfast establishment that I really like. since it is the first one in calgary in the N.E. its really busy.
if you want to go, gotta go early or else it will be kinda long wait. the difference with this breakfast is that… they add fruit. which you dont normally see now a days.
the service is awesome, very friendly. i would recommend for health buffs to go, even if you are not, just try it out. they also have another location in okotoks, so for those who live southern part of calgary.
LOVE IT!

An excellent option for brunch with friends, if you can get table. More breakfast options than you can shake a stick at, almost all served with at least half a plate of their signature assorted fresh fruit presented with flourish (so you can feel good about eating out). Supposedly, people are addicted to the homemade lunch soups as well, but I’m avoiding it as I already have too many vices.

We where taken here by a friend while in town, he was quite happy about the place and had been several times. The food was standard for most Cora’s I have been to, and maybe they are having the standard new opened and training issues going on. However our server was just not there, he handed out menus took very long to come back for the orders, and seem always very distracted. I do not know if I will go back I know it is a bad thing to say and judge a company on one person, but I am looking for something different for breakfast, and this was not it, and the server just made the experience less then desirable.