fitzroyalty

Gutz cafe is one of the quiet achievers on Brunswick St. It’s not full of cool kids comparing sneakers. Like Alimentari and Sila it attracts a diverse clientele who come for the excellent breakfasts. Every few months I go there because I experience a craving for the menemen, a Turkish scrambled eggs dish with onions, tomatoes and capsicums.

The vegetables are sliced and fried until they soften, then the beaten eggs are added and cooked in the usual fashion. It’s served on top of buttered Turkish bread and the sauce from the tomatoes soaks into the bread in a particularly delicious way. Gutz also makes a reasonable coffee and it is worth trying for their Turkish breakfasts (there are other menu items featuring Turkish sausages that are delicious).

One of the delights of Fitzroy is the diversity of choices. I love the consciously quirky Newtown SC and cafe Rosamond and the unconsciously old school Sila as much as the sophistication of The Commoner and Min Lokal. Gutz is different again – part breakfast cafe and part traditional sandwich shop for the rest of the day. One day I will have to try lunch.

Posts you may find relevant and interesting

• breakfast at Fagito on Nicholson St, 24 January 2009
• coffee at Sila on Brunswick St, 5 January 2009
• breakfast at Shire on Victoria St, 15 April 2009
• breakfast at Gigi’s of Beechworth, 11 September 2008
• go North, 4 September 2007

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 12:08 am and is filed under Brunswick St, Fitzroy, business, coffee, customer service, food.
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