I'm really glad I put on my big boy pants early in the morning and made the trip to find a great brunch place, "Eastside Social". "Eastside Social" is a seafood restaurant with Caribbean influences in Lesliville. The restaurant is quite spacious and looks like a very nice country club space where I should be sipping scotch. There is also some nautical touches and warm inviting touches like the large book case filled with a random assortment of books (law books and twilight??), that makes the space feel comfortable. It almost felt like I was dining in the captain's quarters on an old ship.
On this initial visit to this eatery, I decided to have to have my usual brunch meal, eggs benedict.
Calling "Eastside social's" version of an eggs benedict hearty and filling would be an understatement. The perfectly poached orbs are nestled on top of a delicious peameal bacon cut into strips which hide an english muffin underneath all that meat and golden sauce we call hollandaise. There was a lot of peameal bacon on the plate and dare I say...... may be a bit too much.... I'm a huge carnivore but eating so much peameal bacon at one sitting was a bit too much salty goodness even for me. The hollandaise and the eggs did pair quite well with the peameal bacon. There was a nice contrast of salty, savoury and a little acid to tie it all together.
My partner ordered salted cod on bake.
Bake, for those that don't know, is a Caribbean style fried bread. The bread surrounding the precious filling was light, airy and crispy on the outside. The filling was seasoned salted cod, slaw and picked onions. The fish was prepared beautifully which harmoniously paired with the slaw and pickles. This was definitely the dish that stole the show for our brunch.
The brunch definitely had some room for improvements but just from sampling some of their menu items is more then enough to entice me to come back again try the specialty(seafood).
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