The Broadview Hotel Brunch

Neighbourhood: East End / Riverside · Address: 106 Broadview Ave, Toronto, ON · Hours: Mon–Sun 24 hours · Price Range: $$$ · Phone: (416) 362-8439 · Editorial status: Not yet verified

Why Visit

The Broadview Hotel's rooftop brunch delivers standout food and bottomless Prosecco with a 360-degree view that actually rivals Toronto’s best patios. It’s the rare place where the skyline shows up for brunch as hard as you do.

What Makes It Unique

Unlike most Toronto brunch spots packed into street-level spaces, The Broadview Hotel gives you direct rooftop access and floor-to-ceiling glass for a panoramic cityscape, even in winter. Their bottomless Prosecco option consistently draws groups celebrating bigger occasions — think birthdays and low-key bachelorettes — creating a lively (sometimes rowdy) vibe.

The Broadview Hotel's weekend brunch occupies a distinctive position in Toronto's crowded brunch market: it is the only brunch in the city where the dining room itself — a beautifully restored 1891 hotel on the Queensborough Bridge, with the Financial District skyline visible through the windows — is as much of the experience as the food. The hotel's renovation, completed in 2017 by Streetcar Developments, transformed a Victorian commercial building into a functioning hotel with a rooftop bar, a restaurant, and a corner location that is one of the most photographed in east Toronto. The brunch uses that setting to its full advantage.

The rooftop access that comes with the brunch reservation is the practical reason to book: guests who arrive for the weekend brunch can access the hotel's rooftop terrace, which offers a 360-degree view of Toronto that rivals any observation point in the city's east end. Looking west from the Broadview rooftop, the Financial District towers rise above the Don Valley greenery with the CN Tower at their left edge. Looking south, the lake glitters beyond the Port Lands. On a clear summer morning with the brunch still ongoing and the rooftop quiet, the view alone justifies the booking.

The brunch menu itself is built around a kitchen that takes its sourcing and technique seriously — the hotel's restaurant team has maintained relationships with Ontario producers that allow them to specify provenance on the menu in ways that reflect actual purchasing commitments. The eggs Benedict format, which appears in multiple variations, uses properly poached eggs, English muffins from a local bakery, and hollandaise made to order. The French toast is made with the kitchen's own bread, soaked overnight in a custard that gives it the interior richness that distinguishes properly made French toast from the diner approximation.

The bottomless Prosecco brunch option transforms the occasion from a meal into a two-to-three-hour event — a format that works well for celebrations, bachelorette mornings, birthday brunches, and the kind of group that has a reason to be expansive. The rooftop access gives the expansive option a visual destination that keeps the group moving between the dining room and the outdoor space, which is the social rhythm that makes a multi-hour brunch feel active rather than stationary.