The Lucky Duck Cafe & Bar

When I went to this restaurant, I performed my first parallel park since I passed my driving test. I stuffed it up the first attempt of course, but did it perfectly on the second attempt.That being said, I also did it after coming off night duties, so that's even more impressive.

I picked up my sleepyhead Boyfriend and we were off the West End via Google Maps to the Lucky Duck! I saw some random reviews of this place online and it seemed to have a good menu. I forgot to get their Canadian Bomb, which apparently is amazing, expresso, maple syrup, chocolate and banana milkshake. Maybe next time?

This place

The interior is well lit, with a large open space that's full of duck paraphernalia. Ducks, paintings of ducks, little figurines and stuffed ducks as far as the eye could see. Some of the paintings were a bit odd that being said, like the busty anime chick cuddling up to a duck. There's a little courtyard towards the back, that is much shadier to sit in but I thought the light at the front would be better for my photos.

Conjoined ducks

Duck, duck, duck, goose?

Leading up to the bar

Their specials board

The back, much cooler back here

Here is their online menu!

I ordered the freshly made green iced tea with mint, lime and strawberries. It was absolutely gorgeous, full of fresh floating fruit. It was refreshing but not particularly sweet, I felt a little simple sugar syrup would've livened it up quite a lot. One of my strawberries fell out when I was trying to fish out the mint which was a bit sad.

Pretty pretty

My Boyfriend had originally ordered a coffee frappe but the blender broke so he ended up getting an iced chocolate drink. It had a big blob of vanilla ice cream and whipped cream on top as you can see. The chocolate milk had a peculiar taste, like chocolate Nesquik? It was very distinctive but I can't really explain how or why, just that it reminded me of a particular brand and I had no idea why.

I always like stainless steel milkshake cups

My Boyfriend ordered their Mega Wrap, a breakfast tortilla with bacon, fried egg, avocado, diced tomato and house relish. Great combination of flavours, all of them are solid breakfast items and they work wonderfully together. It was overly saucy though, my Boyfriend helpfully estimates it was around 50% sauce.

I got the Kings, haloumi, lemon, egg, basil, bacon, avocado and tomato open faced sourdough sandwich with barbeque sauce. Once again, absolutely great combination of flavours, the bacon, egg, and haloumi combo was lightened by the addition of lemon, creamy avocado and sweet tomatoes, as well as the leaves of basil scattered everywhere. The portion was a bit small with that being, one egg, two slices of haloumi and one slice of bacon, so it was hard to get a little bit of everything when you had a bite.

Kings! Maybe a small King? A prince?

Lucky Duck Cafe & Bar
Atmosphere: 5, the decorations were odd. Bright and well lit with that being said.
Service: 5, average. Can't think of anything positive or negative about it.
Food: 5.5, good combination of flavours, excellent presentation of food, just the portion sizes are small. The prices are VERY reasonable with that being said, which helps balance things out a bit more. I think this place would be excellent for a quick hangover fix or students breakfast meet up. That being said, as a person with a full time job and a big appetite, I wouldn't go here again.