Foodie Experiences
Bulgogi Benny Brunch at Kook's Cooks
An Austin Heights brunch room where a Humber-trained chef puts bulgogi beef on the eggs benedict and wraps kimchi into a breakfast burrito.
Austin Heights, Austin Ave
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An Austin Heights brunch room where a Humber-trained chef puts bulgogi beef on the eggs benedict and wraps kimchi into a breakfast burrito.
Austin Heights, Austin Ave
More infoKook's Cooks is a small, cheerful room on Austin Avenue doing a Canadian brunch menu with the dial turned toward Seoul. Chef Jay Kook came out of Humber College with honours in 2005 and spent fifteen years as a head chef before opening this, and it shows in the crossovers: bulgogi beef under poached eggs and hollandaise, a kimchi breakfast burrito in a house-made wrap, fried chicken on a waffle dusted with icing sugar. The hashbrowns have their own following. Doors at 8.30 on weekdays and 8 at weekends, closed Tuesdays.
Check the day before you drive over, because it is closed Tuesdays and that catches people out. Doors are at 8.30 Monday and Wednesday to Friday, 8 on Saturday and Sunday, and the room is genuinely small, so arriving early is worth more here than at a big brunch hall. Order the bulgogi beef eggs benedict, which is the dish people come back for, or the kimchi breakfast burrito in its house-made wrap; the fried chicken and waffle and the hashbrowns both have their own quiet fan club. This is Austin Heights, a low-rise strip of independents rather than a mall, so parking is free and easy on Austin Ave and the streets behind, and Como Lake and Mundy Park are both a short drive when you want to walk it off.
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