Location: 1574 Queen Street West, Toronto
Website: http://breakfastsandwich.ca/
There’s basically nowhere to go but down from Gold Standard’s breakfast sandwich. It’s bordering on sandwich perfection.
I just tried the Sabich from Gold Standard’s new location on Queen, and yep: it’s not as good as the breakfast sandwich. It’s not even close.
The sabich, per their menu: “egg salad, fried eggplant, cucumber, pickles, parsley.”
It’s fine. It’s decent enough, but the breakfast sandwich is clearly the thing to order here.
There’s certainly nothing wrong with it; the egg salad is nice and creamy, as is the meaty eggplant. The cucumber adds a bit of crunch, though some additional texture would be nice.
The biggest problem is that all of the components are basically on the same wavelength; the flavour is one-note. It’s boring. It needs some acidity to round things out. The pickled onions add a slight vinegary bite, but there isn’t enough of them to make much of an impact.
Michael Eats 