Munch Madness — Round 1 Munch Madness III: Cast your vote for the city's best breakfast

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The first two years the Free Press ran Munch Madness, our inbox was overrun with messages about places we’d missed.

El-eat Eight

ST. B. BROUHAHA
Seine River vs. Marion St. Eatery

SOUTHWEST SKIRMISH
Bernstein’s vs. Garwood Grill

WEST BROADWAY BOUND
The Nook vs Wanabee’s

LADIES’ FIRST
Luda’s vs 2 Kelly’s

Click to vote for the Breakfast of Champions

For whatever reason, since the bracket for this year’s competition involving 16 of the city’s best breakfast joints was unveiled, the majority of the emails we’ve received have been about places Winnipeggers miss, period.

Marc, for example, told us he still dreams about hanging out at the Paladin on Rue Des Meurons on Sunday mornings, lazily filling out his crossword puzzle over a plate of pancakes. Sandra mentioned two North End hotspots she wishes were still around, the Windmill on Selkirk Avenue, which appeared on the big screen in the locally shot flick Shall We Dance starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez, and Connie’s Corner Café, on Main Street. (We agree; our cholesterol rate goes up just thinking about Connie’s Coureur de Bois brekkie, which came with eggs, ground beef steak, hashbrowns and bannock toast.)

Breakfast at Wanabees Diner (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
Breakfast at Wanabees Diner (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)

OK, the first week of Munch Madness III is in the books. How close was it? Consider this: the Garwood Grill bested the Oakwood Bistro by a mere six votes, while the difference in the Due North clash that pitted Luda’s vs the Red Eye Diner was a razor-thin three votes. (Every Kelly in town must have voted for downtown mainstay 2 Kelly’s Café. The homey diner in Fort Garry Place garnered the most votes of any Round 1 competitor.)

We’ve re-seeded the Week 1 winners, let’s call them the El-eat Eight, into new pairings. The same as before, voting begins Friday at noon, and remains open until next Thursday at noon. You can vote on every match once per day. Thursday afternoon we’ll tally the results and let you know which four breakfast joints are moving onto the semi-finals.

  

Click to vote for the Breakfast of Champions

  

David Sanderson

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