Au Jaune d’Oeuf

This place is out of business. Ce restaurant est fermé.

A very pleasant place to have breakfast!
A standard ham, 2 eggs and toast breakfast, with coffee or tea, costs less than $ 8. Me though, I had the «Maison» omelette (bacon, ham and vegetables) which was excellent. Home fries were nothing special, coffee was decent, and ketchup-​lovers get to struggle with those wasteful plastic packets.
But those are quibbles… all in all, this place is a great local alternative to a chain like Cora.

I can’t be any happier that we stumbled upon this gem on our way out of Quebec City. We were staying in a hotel on Boulevard Wilfrid Hamel and were in search of a good breakfast place outside of old Quebec. We took a wrong turn and then I saw the sign and recognized «Au Jaune d’Oeuf» to mean «the yellow of an egg», and screamed, «STOP THE CAR! There’s breakfast!!!»
And what a delight this place was. Very spacious (a relief from the tiny cramped places in Old Quebec), extensive menu, English-​speaking staff (or at least they try!). I got their vegetable and breakfast meat pizza for $ 12 CAD — it was like a deep dish pizza filled with a million ingredients topped with egg and cheese. But unlike American diner food, it had a certain refinement to it — not overly greasy or salty. My friend had a «cassoulet» which was basically a giant scramble of breakfasty goodness.
And «café inclu» (coffee included) with most breakfast entrees?! Maybe I should move to Canada! I am so sad I left my leftovers on our table because I am dreaming of this slightly-​outside-​of Quebec City gem.