June 1, 2007: Rathdowne St Nutrient Store

another breakfast out on Rathdowne St, but this Fri morn was the concluding repast that Michael in addition to I would move sharing for a bit. It was also Michael's concluding direct chances to bask a expert repast for almost ii days, in addition to to bask a expert repast from a carte he could read for almost ii weeks. In a dyad of hours, he'd move commencement his journeying to Budapest for a most-expenses-paid conference in addition to a few extra days of exploration (lucky kid). As good equally rating a dyad of recent comments on our blog, the Rathdowne St Food Store has long been praised by the punters in addition to it was close fourth dimension nosotros gave it a go. On a weekday morn at that spot was no problem getting a tabular array inside.

The carte is substantial, amongst an array of egg-based dishes including build-your-own; porridge, muesli in addition to fruit for the virtuous; toast, muffins in addition to pastries for the small-scale of appetite; in addition to hotcakes for the incorrigible sweeth tooth. Michael picked out 1 of his all-time favourites, eggs florentine ($13.50). He genuinely didn't transcend much comment on them but did complete earlier I was a quarter of the means through my meal, thence swiped to a greater extent than or less of my toast to mop upwards the traces of hollandaise from his plate. Guess they were OK, then. (Michael, experience complimentary to post service comment on them instead!)

What amongst my egg aversion, I decided to cook my ain hearty in addition to savoury breakfast, requesting mushrooms on toast amongst avocado in addition to hash browns ( $15). By the fourth dimension it reached the tabular array my avocado had morphed into spinach, but I took it equally a sign that hash browns were process plenty for me this morning. This plate was fifty-fifty heartier than I anticipated - inward item the toast was super thick cutting in addition to lightly grainy. Awesome. The mushrooms in addition to spinach were barely seasoned, depending exclusively on their ain vege merits. They for sure measured up. But I was most impressed yesteryear the hashbrowns: compact; steaming, soft but textured centres spiked amongst dark pepper; crunchy but non greasy crusts. Avo-what? I didn't immature adult woman it - fifty-fifty amongst unsolicited assistance from Michael, I only made it through 3 quarters of what I was served.

Brekky at the Rathdowne St Food Store is a tad pricier than what I'm accustomed to, but I mean value nosotros got pretty expert value for our money. If I wasn't inclined to provide for the breakfasts, I'd withal come upwards crawling dorsum to displace a pear in addition to chocolate muffin, or to discovery out if whatever of those pies inward the display illustration are vego.

Address: 617 Rathdowne St, Carlton North
Ph: 9347 4064
Price: veg breakfasts $5-20