Eggstatic is the halal brunch room that started at 1568 Bayview Avenue in Leaside in 2018. Chef Faris Awwad still frames it as breakfast classics with a twist: shakshuka in a steel pan, a crispy chicken Benedict, mezze to open, a baklava latte to close. The official house line is serving sunshine on a plate.

The Bayview shop is the flagship. Other rooms followed across the GTA and beyond. This April line is Toronto, not a chain review. The photograph is the official Bayview brunch still — shakshuka and a board, the patio table, not a stall.

A late-April Wednesday on the statement. Leaside already had the name. The desk wrote it once.