The Benedict Chronicles: Jordan House
By Matt Brown
August 26 2010
"...as plate after plate of fluffy poached eggs, cartilaginous peameal, and lakes of sunshiney goo continued to pile up over time, I realized that if I don't start catalogueing these excursions in some formal manner, a great field of human knowledge would be lost. Hence, the Benedict Chronicles..."
An $8.95 breakfast with only three options saves you the kind of reasoning that one rarely wishes to marshal on the morning after an all-night bender in Niagara, which might well have been why Allison and Will picked it for their morning-after-wedding brunch. Located in the midst of wine country in lovely Jordan, Jordan House was big, open and friendly, and served their food fast.
It's not that this was a bad Benny; just a bit weird in the finishings. When you only serve three breakfasts I imagine you get their preparation down to a science, and though one of my poached eggs might better have been described as hard boiled, the other was lovely, so I assume the first was just a glitch. The hollandaise had a sharp citrus bite and was well worthwhile.
But whaddup with them sides? The meagre iceberg lettuce salad seemed half-hearted, and the frites were a genuine marvel of unusual design, too thin to be eaten by hand, and too crispy to be eaten by fork. The result was a meal that left me more bemused than anything else, though I must also report myself satisfied, and that the drive home passed easily. So all's well that ends well.
Jordan House is located at 3751 Main Street, in Jordan Village, Ontario. The Benedict Chronicles is an ongoing, non-regular series.