As the weather warms and heading into the city becomes the norm, why not try out for brunch?

If you’re looking for a place, The Mission Eatery – owned by chef and George Brown College (GBC) graduate Lanny Liu – may soon become your go-to spot.

Located at 676 Queen St. W., this place specializes in brunch with an all-day offering running Wednesday to Sunday until 4 p.m.

Liu came to GBC to learn the foundations of classic French cuisine. After graduating, she spent 10 years working at the Hilton Toronto, where she gained hands-on experience. Feeling ready to the next step, she opened The Mission Eatery in 2022, her personal culinary lab for experimenting and blending everything she learned.

Their menu is inspired by French and Asian cuisines, fusing elements from both in every dish. The idea behind it is to mix and match techniques, ingredients, flavors, and traditional dishes from both cuisines to create something new.

The Japanese beef sandwich, for example, is one of their most popular dishes. It features braised sliced ribeye and onion, melted cheese, chipotle aioli, and pickled cabbage on a toasted baguette, served with French fries. It’s a very classic French sandwich but prepared using Japanese techniques for the meat.

Every dish is made in-house, using premium and local ingredients.

The menu features everything you’d expect to find at brunch: avocado toast, eggs Bennedict, omelets, pancakes, salads, and more. And for drinks, they offer tea, coffee, lemonade, and mimosas, ensuring there’s something for every taste and mood.

The choice of the day was the Crêpe Papillon, featuring a sunny-side-up egg, blueberry pork sausage, shredded cheese, onions, and apple chutney. And it tastes exactly as it sounds, an explosion of flavors, with the perfect balance between sweet and salt.

But the highlight is definitely the blueberry pork sausage, an exclusive recipe of the house.

To accompany the meal, the drink choice was the Matcha Dream, their newest creation. The recipe is a house secret. Of course, you can always ask the server about its ingredients, but part of the fun is trying to guess with every sip.

After all, dreams are all about imagination.

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