Sunterra’s breakfast sandwich a delicious, made-to-order bargain

Here’s a quick hack for finding lunch in Calgary that’s under $10. It’s called breakfast.

Not that it’s a slam-dunk strategy, not when I’ve recently spent more than $20 twice for a highfalutin Calgary breakfast. But a “breakfast burrito” is generally going to be cheaper than a regular burrito, just because of expectations.

Nowhere is this labelling more apparent than the breakfast sandwich: a layering of egg, melted cheddar and meat on a biscuit. You may have first experienced it as an Egg McMuffin.

A regular lunch sandwich, while generally more substantial, will likely cost you upwards of $12. By comparison, it’s not hard to find a decent, sufficient breakfast sandwich in Calgary for considerably less than $10.

For my penny-pinching money, the best of the bunch for price and quality is Sunterra Market‘s biscuit breakfast sandwich, a hefty concoction featuring a house-made biscuit and cured ham. It’s made to order, meaning I get to watch a chef prepare it in a little sauté pan and slide it onto a plate about three minutes after I order it.

The price: $5.79. Can’t beat that.

Oh, Sunterra does offer some other killer lunch deals that put the lie to my earlier claims. For instance, you can get a prepared, pastrami sandwich on ancient grain bread for $8.50 and a hefty tandoori chicken wrap for $9.29.

The prepared sandwiches and wraps are also a bargain

Sunterra Market
2536 Kensington Road NW and numerous other Calgary locations
Daily 8 am-7 pm
403-685-1553