Wide Opened Upwards Road

October 17, 2012

Behind this rather unimpressive facade is Wide Open Road - awarded 'best novel cafe' yesteryear The Age inwards 2011 in addition to sibling to Brunswick favourite A Minor Place. I dropped inwards hither a few times when it starting fourth dimension opened - it was a tiny cafe amongst a unproblematic carte du jour that was basically a subset of A Minor Place. Since my final take in a lot has changed - they've renovated similar crazy, to a greater extent than than doubling the flooring infinite in addition to adding a proper kitchen. They've also added a bunch of vegan-friendly dishes to the menu, leading to a serial of recent visits from Melbourne's veg-blog mafia, inwards plough leading to our take in pre-work on a Wed morn (joined yesteryear Steph, who's making upwards for lost fourth dimension breakfast-wise afterward beingness inwards mainland People's Republic of China for much of the yesteryear year).

The novel interior is gorgeous amongst lots of space, big windows in addition to beautiful woods everywhere. They've actually done a wonderful chore amongst what used to last a pretty crowded picayune room. We settled into the dorsum corner in addition to knocked dorsum some delicious hot drinks (chai for Cindy, soy apartment white for me) spell perusing the menu.

The novel carte du jour has 3 vegan options (one for lunch, 2 for brekkie) in addition to loads of vegetarian dishes to need from. Steph went dorsum for the love apple tree in addition to smoked paprika beans, which I was sorely tempted by. But knowing that like Carla I'd inevitably compare them to the famous Henry's Beans, I decided to branch correct out in addition to tackle the scrambled tofu (with capsicum, boundary onion, zucchini, cavolo nero in addition to cumin amongst confit tomatoes, mushrooms in addition to avocado on whole grain toast, $16.50).

Here's me happily hoeing into it. It's a dry out tofu scramble, but non inwards a bad means - simply packed amongst goodies in addition to fried upwards beautifully. The cumin added a hint of spice in addition to amongst a squelch of lemon on overstep I was pretty damn impressed. The mushies in addition to avocado were peachy equally good (I'm certain the tomatoes were also but I'm simply non a fan). Scrambled tofu comes inwards then many varieties - liquidy in addition to Asian-inspired at Dench, immediately egg-replacement at Kopps in addition to weird glue at Grigons in addition to Orr to cite a few - these are inwards the overstep bracket, in addition to good worth a exceptional trip.

Cindy couldn't larn yesteryear the pancakes, covered inwards toppings aimed squarely at her interests (coconut, strawberries, lemon curd in addition to whipped mascarpone, $16.50).

These were then proficient that I didn't fifty-fifty larn a sense of savor - Cindy polished them off all yesteryear herself. From her study they were fantastic - fluffy pancakes in addition to wonderful toppings. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 sweetness breakfast to tempt fifty-fifty the staunchest savoury-lover.

Wide Open Road is hitting it out of the common - it's a lovely space, amongst friendly in addition to efficient staff, peachy java in addition to a vivid in addition to well-executed menu. It's difficult to pinpoint anything they could last doing ameliorate (aside from keeping Henry's beans on the menu!). No dubiety the weekend brings amongst it queues in addition to a slightly to a greater extent than hectic experience, but on a lazy Wed morning, it can't last beaten.

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Veg bloggers accept been getting stuck into Wide Open Road - banking corporation check out vegan virtually town, Green Gourmet Giraffe, easy equally (vegan) pie in addition to Let's Get Fat Together, Stalker Zine, bean there, read that, dear melbourne, Food Amie, om nom nom.com in addition to lunchosaurus were non equally enthusiastic.

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Wide Open Road
274 Barkly Street, Brunswick
9387 6079
veg breakfasts $7-16.50
http://wideopenroad.com.au/

Accessibility: Tables exterior are on a sloping footpath in addition to at that topographic point are a distich of steps upwards on entry. There's a fair chip of infinite inside, although they contend to squelch enough of tables inwards there. There's total tabular array service. We didn't take in the toilets.