I grabbed a quick brunch at Rhizome Cafe today with a friend. Walking into the cafe I immediately felt like I was back in Victoria. It holds true to the hipster/alternative feel of the mount pleasant and main street area. It's nice and relaxed and large art pieces decorate the wall. Brunch was being served till 3pm so decided to get the pumpkin-seed pesto tofu scramble with salad and corn bread (as pictured). My friend got french toast. The food was good, the tofu scrambled resembled eggs a lot and the I loved the corn bread. I've never had corn with actual corn pieces in it before so it was a nice surprise. I still think the best corn bread I've had in Vancouver was at s'il vous plait downtown but alas that has closed down. The tofu scramble had a nice light flavouring that wasn't too strong and a great texture. The salad wasn't anything special. The french toast came with two pieces and was pretty run of the mill. I might say it was delightfully fluffy yet crisp at the same time. We were debating on how they get it that way. The portion sizes were decent but still enough to be filling. The prices definitely matched the amount I got. I ended up paying about $10.50 for the meal, which is really reasonable in comparison to a lot of other places in Vancouver. The only complaint I have is the service, as our food took quite a while to come and our waitress didn't do a whole lot for us. The place wasn't busy at all but our food took around 20+ minutes to arrive. The waitress took forever to take our order and bring us water or whatever else. It could've been an off day for her but who knows.

I definitely want to go back to Rhizome and try their regular menu. Plus they always have shows and other community events going on, which is super cool.



Rhizome Cafe (Vancouver)
317 East Broadway
Vancouver, BC V5T1W5
(604) 872-3166