Queen's Coach Family Restaurant

Bring a table where one person wants steak and eggs and another eats only plants, and Queen's Coach Family Restaurant is the rare Niagara Falls room where both order a full meal off the same two menus. The Saint Paul Avenue restaurant runs two complete lineups side by side — a conventional all-day breakfast-and-comfort-food menu and a parallel vegan one deep enough to carry its own breakfast, mains, appetizers, and sweets. It opens seven in the morning and closes at eight at night, every day, and keeps both menus running from the first breakfast plate to the last vegan dinner.

Breakfast is the first lane, and it is where the kitchen's sense of humour shows. The Queen's Special Breakfast and the Castle Feast Breakfast anchor a menu studded with royal-coach naming — Royal Steak and Eggs, the King's Feast, the Early Bird plates that open the morning. Omelettes run three eggs deep, the Meat Lover's among them; the benny list stretches from a smoked salmon version to a spicy fried-chicken one; and the pancakes lean indulgent, Nutella and strawberry, strawberry shortcake. None of it is precious. It is the food of a kitchen that expects to plate it hundreds of times a week and has decided to do it generously.