Albert Street Nutrient & Wine

January 2016: Albert Street has had a redesign as well as has reopened equally Albert & Sydney. 

March 10, 2012

Albert Street Food & Wine is the newish domicile of ex-Il Fornaio as well as Masterchef alumnus Phillipa Sibley. It's been opened upward since the start of the yr as well as nosotros decided it was fourth dimension nosotros checked it out. Pro tip: going out for breakfast inward Brunswick is a lot easier on Golden Plains or Meredith weekends - nosotros waltzed inward at 9:00 or then as well as had our pick of the tables. It's a lovely fit-out: they've taken an onetime banking enterprise as well as trendied it upward beautifully. The banking enterprise vault is the vino storage room, the tables are made of recycled basketball game courts - it's clear that no expense has been spared inward creating an impressive space.

The breakfast card is fairly curt - vegos stimulate got the selection of one-half a dozen or then dishes, almost none of which appear to live on vegan yesteryear default, although Marieke works life them to live on rattling helpful during the dinner service then it's in all likelihood worth bespeak them what they tin create for you.

Cindy ordered off the specials - baked ricotta alongside figs (about $14). This was a chip cake-ier than nosotros expected - Cindy suspected in that place was to a greater extent than to the batter than simply ricotta. The edges were dry out as well as crispy (maybe a piddling also dry), spell the middle was a figgy, cheesy, pudding. The almonds were a prissy touch.

I hummed as well as hawed for a spell earlier settling on the mushroom as well as tallegio omelette ($16). I've frequently been disappointed yesteryear omelettes, but this was a pretty good executed version - low-cal as well as fluffy eggs, stuffed alongside gooey, pungent cheese as well as a diversity of tasty mushrooms. The alone risk is the tallegio - I usually beloved the materials but it's in all likelihood a chip intense for the kickoff repast of the day.

Cindy spent one-half the repast looking over my shoulder at the pastry selection - there's plenty to admire, although nosotros were both restrained plenty to walk out without sampling whatever of it this time.

Neither of us were crazy close our meals, but they were decent plenty breakfasts inward a pretty lovely environs (although the generic Cafe del Mar soundalike music got pretty infuriating afterward a while). The service was friendly but non super efficient (Cindy asked the waiter what was inward the ricotta batter as well as he said, "Ummm, simply what's commonly inward ricotta,") as well as the java was alone adequate (I intend they struggled alongside soy for some argue - the milk froth was weird as well as a chip gross). We in all likelihood won't rush dorsum for brekkie, but they've been getting fantabulous reviews for dinners (see below) as well as Phillipa Sibley's desserts are legendary, then we'll definitely live on giving them some other risk to impress.

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There haven't been also many reviews of Albert St at breakfast time, although both nightowlsite as well as ragingyoghut actually enjoyed it. Lots of people stimulate got raved close the tiffin as well as dinner options: Epicureaddict, I'm then hungree, nightowlsite as well as ragingyoghut actually enjoyed it. Lots of people stimulate got raved close the tiffin as well as dinner options: Epicureaddict, A Place H5N1 Day as well as Foodie About Town actually liked it, spell The Chronicles of Ms I-Hua has a to a greater extent than mixed review.

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Albert St Food as well as Wine
382 Sydney Road (cnr Albert), Brunswick
8354 6600
Breakfasts $6-$16
http://www.albertst.com.au

Accessibility: Albert St has a ramped entryway as well as is fairly roomy inside. Ordering as well as payment happens at the table. We didn't see the bathrooms.