Chez Cora

we ate here two days in a row for brunch. this is basically ihop but for people with functioning taste buds. the first day i had pancakes covered with cherries and «crème anglais» (basically a sweet creamy sauce, not sure how english that is) and handsome had poached eggs with toast and fruit. second day we had omelets with toast. huge portions, tons of options, and big emphasis on fruits. cute décor too! this is just what you want in the morning.

First time ever at this place, it is located about one block away from my hotel. Food is really fresh and good, love the fruit and coffee and waitress was really nice. The price is reasonable and the place is kind of cozy. Like it very much, I will come back in my next trip to Montréal.

Service correct, bonne place et bonne quantité dans les assiettes. Les smoothies n’avaient pas le goût des fruits frais et ils nous ont paru très froid, peut être à la limite du congelé. Les oeufs pochés avaient un fort gout de vinaigre.

Chez Cora is a perfect place for brunch! The meals are given in reasonable portions, the food is fresh and delicious, and the waiters are rather attentive to their customers. Overall, I had a pleasant eating experience

Below average food. The service can be spotty, depending on the time of day.
Just.look elsehwere. I’m surprised they are still in business.

I enjoyed Cora. It’s the first meal I ate when I arrived in Montréal. Fresh fruit and good eggs were in abundance. A solid breakfast place. Nothing to write home about but solid service and good food. Would return again.

Chez Cora is the kind of place you go when you want quantity not quality. They certainly give you large portions that will fill you up but the food is just average. They have a pretty wide selection of dishes but none of them really stand out.
Usually I get La Recolte 90 which is a cinnamon brioche served up with bacon, an egg and a ton of fresh fruit. I do enjoy the large portion of fruit but everything else seems just okay. The bacon is never very crispy and the brioche is only so so. I’ve also never been a fan of their pancakes. They’re never very fluffy and are on the bland side. The same goes for their potatoes which could also do with some seasoning.
The prices aren’t very good either especially in Montréal where there are many other brunch places that serve up better food for lower prices. Service is also sometimes on the slow side which can be frustrating. Getting things like water and coffee refills can take time which is kind of annoying.

Chez Cora, despite being a franchise/​chain, does have well made, filling meals. And the food really is good.
On arrival, the first thing you will probably notice is the enlarged picture of Cora (I assume?) on the front page of the menu — a touch I found to be a bit awkward.
Nevertheless, the menu is pretty extensive with a large number of options: sandwiches, burgers, omelettes, eggs Benedict, fried eggs, crepes, waffles, and a small ‘rebellious’ menu with unusual items like the breakfast poutine.
There were four of us at the table and we ordered the (1) breakfast poutine, a ham & (2) swiss omelette, (3) eggs Benedict on waffles and (4) the breakfast burrito (in order of our preference, (1) being the best).
The breakfast poutine was an egg atop roasted potatoes, frankfurters and bacon. It was definitely a risk to order, but I wasn’t let down. It wasn’t your typical poutine, not as greasy, and definitely had the nice breakfast touch I was looking for. The best part was it was topped with Hollandaise sauce rather than gravy. The ham and swiss omelette was also tasty and had a very generous amount of cheese which is always good, not to mention roasted potatoes and fruit. The eggs Benedict were good, but perhaps ordering them on a waffle wasn’t the best idea. It was a slightly weird mix of salty and sweet, but it felt kinda like an acquired taste — the more you eat it, the better it gets. The breakfast burrito was actually pretty tasty as well — I didn’t try much of it but my friend who ordered it really enjoyed it. The good thing is coffee is complimentary with the food! That’s always good to know.
The service was good, we received our food fairly quickly. There weren’t many people when we went (around 13:30).
Overall, the food definitely was as good as we could except. It wasn’t exceptional, but worth going back for.

Petit dejeuner type ‘dinners’, pas mal d’options avec pancackes, gauffres et beaucoup de fruits frais. Les portions sont assez copieuses. On sent les serveurs assez debordés le matin, souvent de l’attente pour payer ou obtenir une table. L’expresso facturé en sus alors que le café regulier est dispo a volonté c’est bizzare.

I never like franchised places because standards are very commercialized. I had a waffle with strawberries, and waffles were nothing special, a bit chewy if I must say. I think I can make better ones at home. Food wise it’s a nay, but I love the cute and fun décor and the atmosphere. Staff is very friendly and wise and they have clean washrooms. I’m torn to rate this based on food or environment+ service, but I’m there to eat, so i’ll put a 2.5−3÷5. If you’re not picky like me on the quality of waffles and just want food, this is the place to go. Large portions and plenty of fruit options.

One of the better breakfast places in downtown Montréal. I would highly recommend giving it a try.

Cora is a lot like the US-​ubiquitous IHOPs and Denny’s, but unlike most chains, it has a lot of healthier options. Came here before embarking on the half-​day Wine Tour of Quebec and the food filled me up for hours. I recommend the whole wheat toasted bagel with lox. It comes with capers, red onion (although a little too much for my liking) and tomatoes all on the bagel. I adore they way they cut up and present all the fruits with the breakfasts! And I’m not just referring to your standard run of the mill fruits like bananas, berries, and apples… you’ll get kiwis, mangoes and tropical star fruits as well! They’re like cute little fruit diorammas…
Easily accessible via metro Peel or Guy Concordia. There was no wait, probably because we arrived early but around 11am the place starts packing out… and with a lot of Longuyland-​native look-​alike Broskis, probably hungover from the night before in the club gettin’ tipsay.

Chez Cora is a homey place that I miss coming to, as the Kingston, ON location closed some time ago. Being in Montréal begs for something more chic, but to heck with that — we went to Cora’s!
Wait time was about 15 minutes around 10:30am on a Saturday. The line is long, but the staff certainly are efficient. I can’t complain about service time once seated, either; things were speedy and efficient.
The coffee is bottomless, the choices are comforting, and the staff are very friendly. If you don’t mind a really busy atmosphere, it’s not a bad breakfast pick.

feels like I got ROBBED! Not a good deal. $ 13 for a mediocre breakfast (they just put a bit of fruit on a crêpe). Big deal.
Avoid like the plague. Try other breakfast alternatives in the city! There are plenty.

Came here to have a bite with some friends who were in town. It wasn’t my personal choice of place to eat compared to some amazing competition on Montréal. I was apprehensive of this specific member of the Chez Cora chain being located in a hotel near the Bell Center.
I ordered their 7^th of July and it was nothing special. The fruits were fresh but the crepes were rather bland and unexciting. For the price tag, I expected more fruits and the crepes to have some gusto. I guess not.
Service was very slow and inattentive. It took ages to get coffee, coffee refills and the check. Seriously, should I be asking for the check thrice so that we can pay to leave when dozens of people are waiting at the door?
Should I mention I shouldn’t ask twice for the Maple Syrup as well? And speaking of that, can I get the genuine stuff instead of the cheap stuff? We are after all, IN CANADA.
GIVE ME CANADA’S BLOOD GOOD SIR.
A Canadian knows full well when the Maple Syrup being offered is of the inferior race of maple syrups!
You pay for your meal at the register, rather than with your server, which is a PITA! There was a line at least 15 people waiting to pay when we went up to pay.
Like a previous Unilocaler said… nothing like waiting in line for a quarter of an hour to pay for a mediocre meal…

While visiting from the US for a conference, my classmates and I were desperately craving for some healthy food. We get enough of the tasty, fatty foods at lunches and dinners, so Cora was a perfect place for breakfast!
I don’t normally eat many fruits, but I’m a fan of the Cora chain of restaurants. The strawberries are sweet, the bananas are perfectly ripe, and everything is cut to perfection. I ordered the Sarrasin Surprise and then the Surprise during my two breakfasts here. Both were delicious.
Many of us wished deeply that Cora would expand to the US! We could use some healthier breakfast options!

If you are coming before 10 its nice and quiet, after 10 its madness.
when the place is busy the service become slow.
VERY SLOW!!! waited for a coffee more then 15min!!!
but in general the place is OK, the food is good as usual in Cora.

Never heard of this place and went here for breakfast and was so pleasantly surprised with the quality, price and convenience (it was right next to our hotel) that I went back the very next day!
Very solid breakfast. Omelettes were great. Portions plentiful. The potatoes as well as the nice fruit made the breakfast a winner. My son had the eggs& toast one day and blueberry crepes the next. Coffee was very good.
THEN after coming home, I found out it was a chain! I must say, I was surprised…

Came here on a Sunday morning for breakfast. There was a little bit of a wait, but were seated pretty quickly.
Service was good. When we got our food, all 4 of our eggs were cold. Looks like they waited too long to serve it to us. I was pretty disappointed and didn’t eat the cold eggs.
On the flip side, their fruit is always fresh and tasty. They also had decent coffee.
I would give them another shot next time I’m in town.

There’s better breakfast food choices in the area… much better ones.
Chez Cora was recommended to me by a friend, who claimed it was cheap and it was delicious. Me and a friend went here on Friday morning. There was a line that reached out their door, but the line went quickly. I took this as a good sign… but I shouldn’t have. Chez Cora is huge, with many many tables inside and stressed staff trying to keep up. The waiters zoom past you nearly at a jog, and it’s extremely difficult to get someone’s attention.
I ordered 3 eggs over easy, 3 strips of bacon, 2 sausages, a mound of apple-​cut potatoes, and some fresh fruit of pineapple, cantaloupe, and strawberry. The eggs were cooked perfectly, the bacon was alright… not soggy, so that’s good. But strangely tasteless? I’m not sure how that happens. The sausages were the worst — extremely tasteless, I couldn’t tell if it was a chicken or a pork sausage, or a combination. It just tasted like bland fat. The potates were also rather tasteless; I think they were simply boiled, sliced, and that’s it. I see that some people are raving about having fresh fruit… but in Montréal, this is not uncommon at all. You’d expect it as much as you’d expect a hotel to have a toilet or a bed. There’s nothing special about it.
Oh, also the waiter forgot to give us our coffee, which is supposed to be part of the breakfast set we ordered. It was hard to flag down our waiter — or any waiter — because he was constantly rushing around to deal with other people. This isn’t his fault per se… they just don’t have enough staff to cover such a big area. Even though there were many empty tables in our section… the waiter could traverse one entire row and not see my hand up at all, because there’s so much space. We already had the single-​serve packets of cream from when they first delivered our breakfast food, but they never gave us a cup of coffee to dump it in to.
Finally, we flagged the waiter down. «Isn’t this breakfast supposed to come with coffee?»
Waiter replied, «Yes.»
Long, silent pause transpired between us.
«Can we have our coffee?»
Waiter replied, «Yes.» Then disappeared.
He returned with coffee that, sadly, was not worth the effort to get. It was weak, but at the same time I didn’t want it to be any stronger because it also tasted awfully burnt.
The price is not drastically cheaper, so I would not go here again. There’s far better breakfast places a stone throw away; their lower price does not justify the bland tastes and bad service. Why make yourself suffer over $ 2?

Resto pour prendre des petit-​déjeuners copieux: pancakes, waffles, crêpes, oeufs-​bacon, fruits frais etc. L’endroit est situé juste en bas d’un hôtel. La clientèle y est très familiale.

3.5 stars!
Easily my favorite brunch place in Montréal. It was next door to me when I was staying at the Sheraton for conference. The breakfast is fresh and delicious, and you get quite a lot of food for the price. (Especially compared to the $ 19.99+ breakfast price tag at Sheraton) Since I’m a fruit fanatic, I love the food combination at Cora with huge sides of fruits. The food is decent, we ordered cinnamon bun and bacon topped with a lot of fruits as well as egg/​sausage/​bacon with hash browns. The atmosphere is quite relaxing, a great place for friends to social in the morning.
Nothing exquisite, just simple delicious relaxing food.

Came here for breakfast one day. We had to wait a bit, as it seems to be quite a popular place. We got seated and menus were given to us. The waiter was nice and eager to serve. As my super-​healthy eating friends perused the menu, I suddenly heard them cry out in horror and disgust at something in the menu. I felt this was a cry for the item I wanted to eat.
After they settled down, they revealed it to me. It was called an e’tage 10, and it had just about every form of pig one could ask for on a plate. This thing had hot dog, bacon, ham, bologna, sausage, Cheese, vegetables and the kitchen sink was tossed in for good measure.
My friends ordered various healthy things, and it all arrived shortly after we ordered it. The food was very very well presented. Fruit was arranged as beautiful flowers, placed atop sundae-​dishes filled with yogurt parfait. My omelet was massive, and delicious. Meat extravaganza danced in my mouth. Meat mixed with eggs and vegetables and was washed down with hot coffee. It was an amazing meal.
The food was great, the service was great, and the place was clean. Whenever I find my way back to Montréal, I’ll certainly come back here.