COVID-19 CLOSURE - Muddy Duck Restaurant (Western)

Update 2020-Nov.-13: Unfortunately, the Muddy Duck has become another victim of the pandemic. An e-mail sent by the owners indicate that after 43 years since 1978, it could not survive the closures and went out of business on Nov. 7. Here is a BlogTO story about this.

(This review is for Muddy Duck's weekend breakfast buffet. They also have a weekday breakfast and Friday night Italian buffet.)

The Muddy Duck Restaurant is located at 2200 Dundas Street East in Mississauga, west of Kipling subway station, and just beyond Highway 427 (the Toronto-Mississauga border.) Muddy Duck has a nice interior (it's been in business for forty years as of this writing) with a solarium seating area with plants and homey decor... fortunately I was able to get a seat in there rather than the interior. Muddy Duck has a large weekend breakfast buffet with pastries, pancakes, waffles, meats, cold meats, fruits and more. The highlight is a custom omelet station where two chefs prepare omelets to your specifications. Included in the breakfast price is AYCD coffee and orange juice.

I am usually not much into juices, but once I tried this freshly squeezed and best-tasting orange juice I have ever had, I was no longer interested in any more coffee (which was OK but not exceptional.) The orange juice is produced by a large and very expensive automated juicer that gravity-feeds whole oranges from a reservoir at the top into two rotating juicer wheels where they are halved, squeezed and the residue dropped into a bin hidden in the base. It's really interesting to watch, so much so that I turned it into an animated GIF as you can see.

Sausages were good and there were plenty of Tabasco and other sauces available to help out the flavor. Of course, my favorite was the  bacon which was nicely crispy and thus far preferable to limp. Prosciutto was very good. The light rye slices were a bit dried out, but adding some Nutella brought it back to life. Cherry danish was a bit dried out as well. Boiled egg (there was a steam tray full of them) was good but it's rather difficult to mess that up. Cheese (which I think was provolone, only one variety available) chicken breast slices, ham and Black Forest ham (I think) were very good and fresh.

For my custom omelet, I had ham, mushrooms, onions, and cheese, and it turned out beautifully, as good as the custom omelet I remember from Hot House. Fresh fruit melon, pineapple, and cantaloupe were indeed fresh and quality. Lime and orange Jell-O were good, but of course it's Jell-O and hard to go wrong there. Kosher pickle spears are available, and they were quite good. Four cereals were present in dispensers; mueslix was my choice for the healthiest and tastiest (I hope.) Breakfast is rather expensive at $22.95, but there are things at Muddy Duck (especially that juicer producing AYCD fresh O.J.) that are to be found nowhere else, so this is a case of "you get what you pay for." However, there was one missing item that I was sure any large breakfast buffet would have: Eggs Benedict, and a few more types of cheese would have been welcome. Still, I certainly enjoyed my breakfast there and required nothing else until the next day (it runs until two in the afternoon, which certainly helped) and I'm usually not a breakfast eater.



Rating: 7.5-8/10