Apt

Update, 31/12/2014: Rather sadly, both Apt too the Newtown branch of Berkelouw books get got closed.

February 2, 2013

We started our showtime sum twenty-four hr menstruum inwards Sydney amongst brekkie at Apt, the weekend vegan cafe hidden within Berkelouw Books. We had high hopes - the Apt kitchen is run yesteryear this dandy brekkie at Naked Espresso on a previous Sydney trip.

Aside from a piddling flag fluttering yesteryear the door at the bookshop, there's non a lot advertising Apt's presence. Still, in 1 lawsuit you lot wander through a few shelves of books, you lot respect yourself at a fairly spacious cafe, amongst 1 long communal tabular array too a bench running along the side - you lot could in all likelihood topographic point 20-25 at a stretch. The card covers all the vegan breakfast staples: sausages, beans, scrambled tofu, tofu omelettes, French toast, pancakes, fifty-fifty a B.L.A.T - plenty of it tin dismiss endure done gluten-free every bit well. I wavered over the $20 morn after bargain (sausages, rosti, tomato, mushrooms, beans, spinach, pumpkin, toast + coffee), but settled on a to a greater extent than small-scale option of scrambled tofu, amongst rosti, mushrooms, beans too sausages ($14.90).

It's nevertheless a spectacularly large meal, amongst masses of tofu, 3 slices of toast, too all the rest. I can't imagine the size of the $20 brekkie. It's proficient too, the scrambled tofu inwards detail amongst its spicy too salty seasoning genuinely proving how delicious tofu tin dismiss endure every bit a breakfast centrepiece. The sauce for the beans was pretty sweetness too combined nicely amongst the saltier tofu, though it mightiness endure a fleck much on it's own; the rosti, sausages too mushrooms all striking the spot. It's difficult to imagine in that place are many ameliorate $15 vegan breakfasts kicking around.

Cindy, every bit is her wont, ordered from the sweetness department of the menu, amongst the French toast (covered inwards berry compote too fresh berries, served amongst maple too agave syrup, $10.50).

This tasted every bit proficient every bit it looks, amongst the crispy-soft toast drowning inwards all agency of berry too syrup flavours. She was intrigued yesteryear a sure as shooting savouriness to the toast too wondered whether she'd striking on 1 of those nooch-based batters but genuinely Leigh attributed it to besan, which Cindy likes too uses herself.

Apt does an first-class arrive at of vegan nutrient at pretty impressive prices. The java is good, the service efficient too the vibe laidback too pleasant. It's prissy to get got breakfast inwards a bookshop also - Cindy too I lazed some later flicking through the shelves spell working upwards plenty liberate energy to human face upwards the residuum of the day. Apt is a weekend-only bargain at this stage, although in that place are rumours that the infinite is existence taken over yesteryear a vegan dumpling house Mon to Fri - snuff it along an optic out!

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Apt has been enthusiastically received yesteryear Cupcake Kitteh, Mama Shaz, div forever too what create you lot consume then!?.

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Apt
half-dozen O'Connell St, Newtown (in Berkelouw Books)
breakfast $6.90-$20
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Accessibility: There's a apartment entryway and, in 1 lawsuit you lot navigate through the bookshop, a fairly spacious layout. Ordering too payment happens at the counter (see instant film above). The toilets are accessible too unisex.