Happy Valentine’s day! A gift from us to you.

Over the years I’ve done over 180 reviews, I’ve eaten in multiple cities and I’ve seen the Montreal brunch scene expand and evolve, but it’s been only in English. Now, I do speak French and can communicate in an oral fashion rather well, although my written French is not at a level that is “publishable”. So, over the last while I have been working with a friend of mine to start translating some reviews to French. We have a few now and are committing do more as time passes. We will be rolling out French ones as the weeks go on and want all future posts to be in both languages. Please note that this is a volunteer project and we will do our best to get regular postings.

I guess you can consider this our Valentine’s Day gift, to you.

With Lots of love,

MBR

New Look Same site

So after a little more than 1 year of reviewing I felt it was time to change things up and upgrade the site. Over the last few weeks you may have noticed new functionality such as categories listed by rating as well as by location and price. I also included two maps of brunch places sorted by area (one of greater Montreal, the other for the Plateau and Mile end)

As of Sunday evening May 10 2009 I pushed the button and version 2 went online. There are some improvements that will help you navigate the site with more ease and find what you need. I listed the most popular links under the header, added a contact sheet so that people who are not on Twitter or in the Facebook group and  don’t find their question relevant to the site posts can email me their questions. You will also note a coffee cup rating section above the “post a comment” section which allows you to chime in and give your own rating as well as comment (this section will get expanded with time).

Aesthetic changes were something else I wanted to improve on. I tried to keep the nice yellow & orange “brunchy” theme from the old page yet I wanted something that looked nicer and displayed more info so people could find it more easily. New additions to this included the “quick summary overview” where you can see the last few posts. They are displayed by showing a quick snap shot of the text and image so you can click to see the (more…)