Roadfood Junkie visits Toasters Family Diner in Cambridge, Ont.

 

It had been a while since the roadfood junkies had been to Toasters in Cambridge. We had almost forgot about the place since we don’t travel the big cities often (not that Cambridge is that big)  but errant's had to be run and we were near enough to make a small detour. Cambridge does have a few noteworthy, roadfood, diners, and dives.


For good roadfood visit, Toasters Family Diner
1531 Eagle St. Cambridge, Ontario.

Located in a strip mall, 'Toasters' is a small family diner that seats perhaps 50 people and it is usually filled to capacity. Their seating consists of booths and tables in an atmosphere reminiscent of true Mom and Pop operations. The menu states they are open 7 days a week for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A grueling schedule to say the least, but it does not seem to interfere with their quality.

I love their painted signs and the advertising of an all day breakfast on the building walls. A true roadfood feel to the eatery; there is nothing like a breakfast for lunch, or dinner, but in this diner don’t think for a second that it means light, or diet eating. Their breakfast dishes are huge, small platters of delicious home cooking.

It didn’t take long to make up my mind what to order. I was choosing the Corn beef hash and eggs at $5.99 and the other road food junkie was feeling traditional and chose 2 eggs, sausage and home fries. $4.99. Coffee was extra and the waitress kept our cups full. Seems like a while since I last seen those heavy ceramic coffee mugs that were once common in every restaurant. Toasters definitely has that diner atmosphere, all they need is a juke box to finish it off.
We were both amazed at the speed in which we received our meals.


 


My corn beef hash although very good, wasn’t quite what I expected. Hash browns, diced red onions and slices of corn beef...diced. The taste of the corn beef was lost to the potatoes. They certainly weren’t stingy with the hash and the eggs were over easy as ordered.

The sausage, eggs and home fries were a belly buster for my friend. Four sausage links, that looked spectacular and ample golden potatoes accompanied the eggs.

I saw a couple of other meals come out that looked like excellent hungry-man specials.

I can just visualize their liver and onion dinner ($7.99) or Ny Steak dinner ($13.99). I guess a return visit will be in the forecast.

Service was good, maybe not all warm and fuzzy but that was okay, we were new kids in town; not regulars and the waitresses concentrated on business. No time for visitations or idle chatter, when working a packed house. I would have liked to ask a few questions about the history of the place or the ethnic origin.I just never got the opportunity....maybe, next time.

 I love a good breakfast and Toasters is just the place to get a good breakfast at a reasonable cost.
 Have to make it a point to go back and try the lunch menu.


Jane’s father decided to take all the family out to a restaurant for a meal. As he’d spent quite a lot of money for the meal he said to the waiter, “Could I have a bag to take the leftovers home for the dog?” “Gosh!” exclaimed Jane, “Are we getting a dog?”