We had such a good time trying out the novel Italian-themed Smith & Daughters dinner carte du jour that nosotros joined the same friends but a few weeks afterward to select a shot at brunch. It's had the same sort of makeover, with quondam favourites similar the hash in addition to the pancakes making agency for breakfast pizza, meatballs in addition to bombolini. Cindy kicked off with a grapefruit juice ($7.50) - it's groovy that they're doing the fresh juices again.
The iv of us seat our heads together in addition to came upwards with a nutrient excogitation - 3 savoury mains addition a brace of modest dishes in addition to thence breakfast dessert. We started with the spaghetti frittata ($12), which is served at room temperature with a wonderful love apple tree sauce. This hitting the spot, but nosotros all needed around hot dishes to warm us upwards inward these dreadful wintertime months.
That came with our savoury mains: parmesan scramble (with broccoli rabe, chilli, lemon in addition to garlic, $19), the mushrooms in addition to ricotta on toast (with garlic in addition to crispy orgeno, $20) in addition to the breakfast pizza (pesto, mozzarella, tofu scramble, prosciutto, fried capers, chilli, parmesan in addition to rocket, $20).
Everyone was gaga for the 2 toasty dishes - the scramble has choke a home-made favourite hither since nosotros got the cookbook, but the eating seat ever delivers something ameliorate than nosotros tin whip up. It's eggy but non overwhelmingly thence in addition to paired perfectly with the lemony greens.
The mushrooms in addition to ricotta were maybe fifty-fifty better. The mock-ricotta doesn't actually mimic the cheese, but it's a rich savoury spread that brings out the best inward the mixed mushroom combo on top.
The pizza was maybe my favourite - a crispy base of operations topped with that glorious tofu along with around chunks of fresh chilli in addition to petty bursts of fried caper goodness. I'd ditch the rocket on pizza every bit a full general principle, but otherwise this was hap notch.
We eventually got our concluding savoury dish - the white patato skins were sold out, but they served us upwards a dissimilar spud dish instead: roasted potatoes with an olive-y crush to give it a common salt in addition to vinegar-y flavour. (These came out late, thence nosotros got them for free.) We could barely brand a dent inward them at this point, but they were a huge hitting (and nosotros roundly enjoyed the leftovers at habitation later).
For breakfast dessert nosotros couldn't resist an guild of the bombolini (5 babe doughnuts filled with vanilla edible bean custard, $16) in addition to a serve of the limoncello rice pudding (with a fresh citrus salad in addition to rosemary vanilla H2O ice cream, $15). They came out with candles in addition to sparklers because Nat in addition to I were both celebrating birthdays in addition to because Mo is a delight.
The doughnuts are ever delightful - hot in addition to crispy, with a big spurt of delicious custard inside. The rice pudding was a slightly less impressive version of our dinner dessert - it was all the same fantastic, but it missed the crispy brulee top.
This novel Italian version of Smith & Daughters is actually kicking around goals - both our recent dinner in addition to this brunch are alongside the best meals we've had since they opened. I dear that they tin reinvent themselves similar this in addition to can't human face to come across what comes adjacent (after nosotros choke dorsum a few to a greater extent than times during this iteration of course).
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You tin likewise read most one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine of our previous visits. Nobody seems to select blogged it inward the few weeks since our lastly visit.
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Smith & Daughters
175 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
9939 3293
brunch menu
http://www.smithanddaughters.com/
Accessibility: The entry is apartment in addition to narrow in addition to the tables are pretty crowded. The interior is dimly lit in addition to loud at nighttime but much brighter inward the daytime. Toilets are located upwards several steps, are gendered in addition to of criterion dimension. We ordered at the tabular array in addition to paid at a high counter.
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