Calgary, Alberta, Canada. My go-to brekkie spot when exploring the region. It was one of the few, non-dennys/corporate, joints that were open at 6am. I patronized Cora's three times and unfortunately I lost a couple days of pictures from my trip due to technical difficulties. The joint has friendly, cute/childish, and welcoming charm. The typical Canadian hospitality was on full display in all it's glory. A pleasant dining experience. Service: A. Everyone was cool, nice and all that mushy stuff as mentioned briefly above. Food: A. Waffles - The waffle had a good blend of flour, dairy, butter and sugar. You can taste that the recipe is their own and not some commercialized junk mixed together for them to cut cost corners. Additionally, the amount of fruit on top of the waffle is over-kill which is good for consumers. Coras definitely provide generous portions. Omlette - It's nice to eat eggs that are cracked versus a paper box/carton. Cheese just drooped all over to add with the veggie flavors. Wrap a.k.a. Burrito. A little thicker than a crepe with a generous amount of sweeter hollandaise sauce on top. The wrap itself wasn't that big but the fruit and tatoes made sure to fill up the belly. Potatos - nothing to rave about. Fruit.... This was insane in a good way. The amount of fruit provided was a complete shocker. The variety provided ranging from strawberries, cantaloupe, watermelons, grapes, kiwis, melons, apples, bananas and oranges was beyond generous. Location: ? It's in a mall somewhere in East Calgary. Calgary is a small town compared to Los Angeles so I don't know how to evaluate location. Parking: A Mall so there is plenty parking in the morning. Decor/Interior: B Nothing fancy. Overall: A I love this place. The foods that was provided was real. How do you know food is real? They keep you full for a good period of time. That would be 10 hours for me. Ever notice how hungry you get after eating fast foods? Yep. Thank you Cora for providing adequate nutrition for an aggressive traveler =) Happy eatings my friends. read more

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Most of the food ordered was good. The Montreal Smoked Meat Skillet was less to be desired. It was not real smoked meat, more or less like thin pastrami with absolute no taste. My hubby was really disappointed, he just picked out the meat and set it aside. Thankfully the waiter removed it from our bill. With Cora originating out of Quebec I would of thought the smoked meat served would be of top quality but no it was not. The service was excellent as usual. read more

Well, my Cora adventure has come to an end. When they first opened their locations in Calgary, you had to wait in que for a while to get a table...for good reason. The food was great. The last two times I went there (23-03-35) was a huge disappointment. The food (omlette) had almost NO flavour. The usual flourish of fruit looked like someone had just tossed a few chunks of banana, cantaloupe and strawberries on the plate. This was the "Gigi" omlette. I had one cup of Earl Gray tea- with a 10% tip to the very nice waitress it was 30.00. Absurd. Too bad that it's all gone so downhill in recent years. read more

The food was good, very big portion. We were so full at the end. Complimentary buttered toast is quite good too. Service: could be better if there is ice water in bigger glasses, we had to ask for refill twice cause the glass they use is too small. read more

Cora - Cora's Special - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

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great service food tasted great chocolate milk was awesome i will be coming back here

Went there for a brunch about 10 AM on Friday. I had a vegetarian omelet with a lot of changes including asking for cottage cheese. The service here was above average and very cool. My breakfast was very hot, tasty and everything was fresh. I went once before and I have not been disappointed as a matter fact I've been really excited about going there. It's the only canned restaurant that I go to that I really like. People are friendly places clean and definitely go there. read more

Brunch spot! I have been here before and I do enjoy the food the only thing is that I always know that there will be a line up. Then when your seated I you feel rushed to eat and get out fast for the next group to be seated. I also find that they are chintzy like lest give a table of five people 3 Jams and one peanut butter, it's just going to starting a family feud. read more

Cora - Pancakes - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

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I've been to Cora's before so check out my other review!! Cora's is located attached to Sundridge mall near the Starbucks. I work in the NE so it's pretty close by. Lunch was coming up, I even brought my own lunch but its Friday and I wasn't feelin' my lunch. I browsed some Instagram photos and a food photo with some hollandaise popped up and I immediately thought of Coras. I asked a co-worker if he wanted to join me on my Cora run and he agreed. We arrived at around 11:45AM and there was a group of 5 in front of us so it wasn't a long wait at all. They've got a patio but it was blazing hot out so we opted to stay inside. It's been over a year, maybe two since I have visited, I forgot how cartoony and cute it is inside! It looks like they've got new items to the menu so that got me excited. I noticed they've got new pancakes, waffles and other plates but what caught my eye was the breakfast poutine. I was actually thinking about OEB's breakfast poutine when I saw this but I wanted some meat. I continued to browse but decided to go with what I normally get which is the Cora Special but I added a side of hollandaise. Steve went with the 10 Star Omelette. Our waitress was really friendly and making some jokes here and there. Food arrived and I had to remind her about my hollandaise sauce and then I got my eggs poached but they were rubbery looking. I'm not the one to send things back because I feel bad, but I wanted my eggs so I asked for new ones. The fruit was ok, didn't look quite as fresh but still edible. The food was very mediocre, nothing special. The ham was a bit dry, but the crepe was nice. I knew what I was in for though so I didn't expect more than just food to be in my belly. I do still really enjoy their smooth hollandaise sauce. I can put that s*** on anything! I got a side to dip my potatoes in and it was the best part. Steve seemed to like his meal but he's been to Coras before so it was the same old. Our original waitress didn't come by to fill Steve's coffee but some other waitress stopped to top my water. It's always nice to have that little sweet maple fudge piece they give you after you pay. read more

Cora - Cora special - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

Great selection of breakfast menu items. Long lineups for breakfast, though staff were attentive at getting us seated. Bonus points for arranging a mango smoothie bowl without Kale for my wife. Might not always be possible but they tried hard to accommodate us. My only criticism would be that we were seated at the smallest table at the back of the restaurant and it was so cramped we couldn't get in/out without inconveniencing the table behind us. Not comfy. read more

Right when you walk in you are automatically put into a good mood because I love the layout it's so customer and family friendly! Their Benedict's are delicious and I always ask them for extra crispy potatoes which they never hesitate to do. Definitely a great place to take your kids, friends or family! read more

I work near this location so I have frequently popped by for breakfast but I am sad to say that I will never be returning here. My mom and I stopped by around 8am on a weekend prior to the usual rush. Despite the restaurant being empty it took a very long time for us to get seated (we almost left). Once the host acknowledged our presence he took us and sat us at a table next to the window. As soon as I got in the area I felt a draft coming from the window and it was a terribly cold morning. Since the restaurant was empty, I asked the host if we could sit elsewhere. He accommodated and moved us to a more centrally located table. As soon as we sat down, a lady who I presume would have been our waitress had we sat at the original table came by and THREW the menus onto our table. One of the menus literally was flung into my mom and the other slid across the table. There is absolutely no exaggeration - she threw the menus. I was so shocked and was going to speak with a manager but my mom was about to catch a flight out of town and wanted to get in/out as fast as possible. We will not be returning. Note to management - please place some importance on properly training your staff and hire people with manners. read more

Food is hearty and fresh. Service is always a bit scattered. Crepes can be done gluten free!

Had French toast with sausage and fruit. It was a bit of an odd order for them, but they accommodated me. Very good. Sat on the patio, which has a view of a parking lot, but is outside I the fresh air. read more

I had a terrible experience here, please never come here especially if you're coming with a large party. So the situation was like this - we called beforehand to book a table, because 16 of us were coming. They told us that our table would be ready by the time we arrive. After we did, we were told to wait for awhile, which was understandable. So we waited for 10 minutes, then 20 minutes. But EVEN after waiting for half an hour, it wasn't ready yet. After waiting for a whole hour, they only then told us that they were cleaning up the tables for us. Note this was only after an hour when they said that the table would be ready for us by the time we arrived. In the end we had to remind the server again about our table and THEN they only seated us. The service here is horrible compared to the Cora in Vancouver and I'm never coming back here again. read more

An excellent option for brunch with friends, if you can get table. More breakfast options than you can shake a stick at, almost all served with at least half a plate of their signature assorted fresh fruit presented with flourish (so you can feel good about eating out). Supposedly, people are addicted to the homemade lunch soups as well, but I'm avoiding it as I already have too many vices. read more

Cora - Buckwheat crepes - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

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I'm from Florida visiting Canada and went to this place first wasn't to sure if it would be good or not due to the reviews it had walked in had no problem with the waiting was seated right away servers greeted me well the place looked clean and the vibe of the room was good got my food in good time server checked on me regularly honestly my first experience wasn't so bad fruit was fresh food tasted good try this place out don't let the reviews kill the experience for you! read more

Cora - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

Honestly this is the worst Cora I have been to. I had an egg Benedict and it was disgusting. I have to say The sauce was not home made, not only that the service was terrible. Never been to a restaurant and was unhappy with the food they still made me pay for it. read more

Came for a late breakfast Sunday morning, and as we expected, they were quite busy. The initial wait of 15 minutes to be seated was completely reasonable as far as I'm concerned, and our waitress was good, but unfortunately, that's all I can really compliment on this visit... Being my first time eating here, I figured that I would order their equivalent of a meal I have had elsewhere, partly because it appealed to me, and partly as a comparison point to another restaurant I like, so I ordered the strawberry crepe with custard. This is where it goes downhill.. To start, it took more than 20 minutes for the food to arrive. Busy I understand, but most of these breakfast items can be cooked in just a couple of minutes. How small is the grill? However, my disappointment only grew when the food arrived. First impression was that both my wife's order, and my own looked delicious. Upon closer inspection though, I realized the following: a. My wife's toast was burnt. b. The strawberry in my wife's fruit was kind of sad looking. c. The strawberries in the crepe were not what I would consider acceptable. Many had big green or scarred parts on them that I would have cut off personally, or were simply too ripe (as in soft or mushy) and should never have been used in the first place. d. The custard was very thin, and kind of bland. To be fair, my wife's omelet was good, and the meats were fine, so there was that. I guess my biggest issue is that the attention to detail, and quality of the ingredients being used just didn't seem to be there. While my wife has eaten here three times now, and still likes their food, I probably won't be going back. It just wasn't good enough in my opinion. read more

I love CORA, this is one of the breakfast establishment that I really like. since it is the first one in calgary in the N.E. its really busy. if you want to go, gotta go early or else it will be kinda long wait. the difference with this breakfast is that...they add fruit. which you dont normally see now a days. the service is awesome, very friendly. i would recommend for health buffs to go, even if you are not, just try it out. they also have another location in okotoks, so for those who live southern part of calgary. LOVE IT! read more

I don't understand they take my order we eat doesn't check up on us one small glass of water after eating whole Meal nothing to clear my throat very disappointed ! read more

Fantastic breakfast spot. Tons of choice and all quite delicious. Fast, friendly service. read more

I have been going here for years and every time it has been great, the staff are all very kind and the food has always been delicious for whatever me and my whom I've gone with have ordered. The eggs Benedict, fruit pancakes, and French toast are my go to and I've never been let down I love going here and I highly recommend it read more

In lieu of pancakes and waffles, Cora offers omelettes, skillets and crepes, with lots of fruit and vegetables. The service was great (Melissa was an amusing and frequent visitor) and the price was appropriate. I can't think of any place I'd rather eat breakfast. read more

I've never been to a Cora's before but someone recommended it to us so we went yesterday (Saturday) morning. I'm not sure what it's usually like but we had a 20-minute or so wait. Which is fine. The staff were all very friendly and the food came quickly. The hot chocolate was piled with whipped cream and was just wonderful. The food was good as well and effort was put into it looking nice. I was not, however, a fan of the thin and salty bacon. Big disappointment there. :( otherwise it was very good and I will definitely be back. read more

5 stars for your service. Great place. Great food and awesome staff. Wow Yelp review are so great. Going Back Forsure :)))

I won't be coming back to this place or any Cora's. The food was cold when it came out, service was lacking, and you pay too much for what you get. I had two pieces of cinnamon brioche French toast, some fruit, three little sausages and one egg, yes you read it right, one egg. Who serves one egg? If you scramble it, you do t get much. Had mine over easy and it was way over cooked. Don't waste your money folks and couldn't see any reason for the hype. read more

this location is pretty gross. when we were seated our booth wasn't very clean and there were still crumbs on the table. there was a hair in my food which i found after i took a few bites, when they remade it it was fine and i ate the food yet when i was finished i found another hair on the food again (when we walked out i spotted a chef in the kitchen with a beard and his beard was not covered). at the end we even found a fruit fly in one of our drinks. the service was good and the waitresses were kind but when it comes to the cleanliness of the restaurant it is not sanitary at all. read more

This is the best Cora's. The staff is so friendly and make us feel like family. The food is very good and is served quickly and hot. We have been to many other Cora's and this one is our absolute favourite. read more

We where taken here by a friend while in town, he was quite happy about the place and had been several times. The food was standard for most Cora's I have been to, and maybe they are having the standard new opened and training issues going on. However our server was just not there, he handed out menus took very long to come back for the orders, and seem always very distracted. I do not know if I will go back I know it is a bad thing to say and judge a company on one person, but I am looking for something different for breakfast, and this was not it, and the server just made the experience less then desirable. read more

There are so many more breakfast joints than this place. The food is as you expect on the menu and mostly satisfactory. On a busy Saturday don't expect it to be warm. Don't ask for any customizations to your meal, they will screw it up guaranteed. Service is inconsistent and staff seem overwhelmed. I have to wave down someone to fill my coffee, get extra napkins, even refill water and to get my bill. If you want knowledgeable friendly staff then don't come here. They don't think outside the box or offer anything extra, they don't have any common sense to ask if you want a to go box even. I much prefer a friendly intuitive personal server than a waiter or waitress with no personality that is just counting down their hours till their shift is over. read more

When this location first opened I could echo the other reviewers emphatically. Now? Not so much. Their hallmarks of quality in food and service feel diminished. Sure, they can serve a good meal and I've seen some good staff... But it's really inconsistent, and I find my self hesitant to go back. Disappointing, since it use to be over-the-top awesome, every time. read more

This Cora's was darn near identical to every other Cora's I've been to: absolutely packed on a Sunday morning. The wait time was reasonable, at fifteen minutes and the food delivery time was also reasonable. We had a very friendly server, however our coffee cups made it to empty pretty darn quickly and then stayed there, bottomed out, for awhile. The calibre of the coffee, for a place that does breakfast, is pretty lacklustre. I mean, surely there is a wealth of knowledge available from the myriad of coffee roasters and coffee shops in the Northern Hemisphere... plus, you know, the Southern Hemisphere, where they grow the stuff. Now we're up to a globe's worth of available knowledge. I can understand the trade-off between durable, small catering coffee mugs not being shattered and only holding so much coffee, so as not to waste any, but coffee is pretty darn cheap. Coffee was something like $2.75 a cup and you've got to figure that most of that pricing is to recover costs from labour, not from the coffee, creamer or sugar. It may work to trick your wait staff into being attentive, except when that backfires, as it did in this case, and your clientele doesn't like it when someone interrupts the caffeine IV supply. My suggestions: more staff, larger coffee mugs, or beverage-patrollers for the super-busy shifts, whose only responsibility is to produce and serve more beverages. read more

I'm not from Calgary but I was in town with my boyfriend visiting some friends. My boyfriend & I decided to stop by Cora in Sunridge mall, as we love all the Cora locations in Edmonton, but this by far has been our worst experience yet. As we walked in the host greeted us with a smile & sat us in a booth & told us our server would be right with us. A couple minutes later our server approaches our table & takes our beverage order, coming back to us ten minutes later when all we had ordered was two coffees, two waters. After placing our drinks on the table she tells us she'll be right back. Again, we had waited another ten minutes before she came back to take our order. I ordered the spinach & cheese omelette, & my boyfriend ordered the tuna melt sandwich. I literally took one bite of my omelette & immediately felt sick to my stomach. My boyfriend opened it up & it looked slimy in the middle. It obviously wasn't cooked thoroughly. So we shared his plate. After we were done I went to the washroom & our server approached our table & asked my boyfriend why I ate his plate but not mine. He then explained to her that it had made me feel not so great, & that I didn't want it. The server snapped back with "so why did she order it then?". I returned & my boyfriend had already paid the bill, but our server still included my $16.00 plate even though I took one bite out of it. I was not pleased. I'm a server too, & I would have been more understanding of the customer. I would've been more generous & asked questions so I can report back to the kitchen. That server, I didn't get her name, needs to take a hospitality course or something. 0/10 would recommend. read more

For a chain restaurant the food is not bad and I've been to other locations many times before. I was disappointed at this location however. I asked for a couple of pieces of extra fruit instead of my potatoes and toast and they said there was no way they could do that because of the price of fruit ... I would have been happy with 1 extra strawberry and a few banana slices, I really just didn't want what it came with because it would be too much for me to eat anyways. The server wouldn't listen and proceeded to go on about how the other cora restaurant that did this would be in big trouble etc etc. I settled on just not taking the sides anyways because I don't like to waste food. read more

Everything was too salty and got hair in one of the plates, that's all about the visit. Won't go back.

Never again. Stood in line a ridiculous amount of time even by Cora standards. Finally after the groups of 2 and 4 being seated, I was up. I asked if it was ok if I sat on the patio as it was open and it was nice out. Got a "Yeah I guess so" from a less than enthusiastic hostess. Got seated got my menu and waited for my server to come by to grab my drink order. And I waited. And waited. 10 minutes elapsed. The other patrons on the patio got served their drinks and had their orders taken and I sat. Parched. Hungry. And on the verge of losing my sh!t. Finally I ducked my head inside and motioned for a server. I caught someone's eye and she came out. "Oh. You need your bill. Let me get your server!" And she left. She left and no one came back. I went inside and went up to the till, and the lady there goes, "How was everything? Do you have your bill?" I politely informed her that I didn't have a bill because I'd basically been ignored and hadn't even gotten my order taken. She looked at me and didn't even bother to apologize and when I asked for a manager she told me the manager was unavailable to deal with anything at that moment. Yet I could clearly see the manager chatting to a server across the room. Never ever again read more

I have been to several of the Coras in Calgary, and after visiting this location have crossed it off my list as a breakfast/brunch establishment. My visits grew increasingly disappointing after trying several different items, until I realized it is not capable of giving the high quality meal like smaller and more professional establishments. This place teeters on a Denny's, though makes you think you will get higher quality. The crepes are thick and tasteless, the hollandaise sauce tastes cheap, the waffles taste frozen, all the fruit is frozen, and it lacks any kind of individual quality in its meals, but makes you feel as though you are eating frozen breakfast items that have been re-heated. The wait it usually long, without complementary coffee, and you have to wait at the location. The staff have given me generally low quality service. Completely overpriced for the quality! I would definitely not recommend this place to anyone until Cora attempts to change some things! read more