Grace cafe opened a bit over a week ago in one side of the small semi-detached cottages on Rose St covered in art. I arrived about 9.45am on Saturday for breakfast, when there was only one other occupied table, but within 20 minutes the place was full. The word is already out and the new cafe has been swamped by curious novelty seekers like myself.
I ordered the field mushrooms with beetroot on toast with an addition of goat cheese.…
Breakfast Thieves on the corner of Gore and Rose streets opened a couple of weeks ago. I tried to go last weekend but they were full on Saturday morning and I was more successful on Tuesday at lunchtime.
While the breakfast side of the menu looks good I was more interested in some of the lunch dishes, including the ‘Ned Kelly’ – rosemary polenta with mushrooms and poached eggs. This is fantastic dish that needs only a piece of bread to soak up the yolk and juices to make it perfect.…
Before it became Rustica Sourdough bakery cafe, this building contained Pane Provinciale, then Itza cafe. Itza had once been good, but it suffered a drastic decline in the quality of its bread and cafe food, stopped baking, and finally became somewhere no one wanted to go to. Fortunately this has changed, with a new business and a new light-filled interior.
Rustica opened about 10 days ago. I went in last week to buy bread, then returned this week for breakfast.…
I had breakfast yesterday at Little Creatures after having noticed their new breakfast menu recently. Their menu also contains something called ‘blunch’. Is that the same as ‘brunch’? The pizza, containing proscuitto, egg, cheese and spinach, is excellent but be warned the coffee is mediocre. I’d go elsewhere for that.
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A small new cafe called Juddy Roller (Facebook) opened last week on Chapel St near the corner of Johnston St. It’s similar to Tiny in Collingwood in being located in a corridor under a staircase but different in that it features art by Sydney street artist Ears (web and Flickr) on the walls rather than an intense yellow glow. The cafe is named after a relatively recently deceased local musician.
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I was talking not so long ago with a local acquaintance about the quality of some Fitzroy cafes that have changed ownership, and whether they are as good as they used to be. I thought the quality of the coffee at Newtown SC declined after Cate sold up. He replied by questioning whether Ici was still awesome after its rumoured change of owners in 2010, and I said I have not been there for some time.…
Every so often I am drawn to Madame Sousou for breakfast or brunch. The coffee is excellent and a croque madame is a perfect way to start the day, even if it is 1pm. Sitting outside in the shade on a balmy autumn day, the accessibility is perfect, and for once no one smoked near me. Heaven.
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Where? I hear you say. Max’s has been open about six weeks on Brunswick St between a bottleshop and a convenience shop opposite Atherton Gardens. Like Lunchtime Escape it seems oriented towards lunch, but it is open for breakfast, and they have yummy bacon and egg rolls. They also make good coffee, and I recommend trying it for yourself.
If you’re walking to work and Newtown SC is full to bursting, and Pollen Industries has not yet opened, you now have another coffee option on Brunswick St.…
The winner of the second ‘tell me where to go’ poll is Lunchtime Escape on Gertrude St, which received over 50 of the more than 140 votes in the poll. The first poll, won by Mario’s pizza on Johnston St, received over 70 votes in total so participation in the poll has doubled from one month to the next, which pleases me greatly.
Commenter Emily hoped that I did not end up at Lunchtime Escape due to the reportedly bad coffee but it got 30% of the vote, narrowly defeating Monties on Smith St due to a late rush of voting.…