June 4, 2011: Heirloom

nearby places. This calendar week nosotros decided to banking concern check out Heirloom, i of the few places opened upwardly inward the urban nitty-gritty on the weekend. Cindy had spotted Nouveau Potato's emphatic thumbs up for Heirloom as well as knew that they did weekend breakfasts, therefore nosotros were excited to attain it a shot.

Heirloom's schtick is French-Japanese fusion, which manifests inward a breakfast carte du jour dissever into East as well as West. West is fairly bog-standard cafe fare - poached eggs, avocado on toast, toast as well as spreads - you lot know the drill. East is a flake to a greater extent than intriguing, including an enoki as well as shitake omelette, as well as steamed eggs amongst tofu as well as tamari. We both ordered from this side of the carte du jour - Cindy went amongst a milk rice pudding amongst stewed plums, vanilla as well as fresh lychee ($13.50).

This rice pudding was to a greater extent than a rice porridge: warm as well as cooked 'til virtually all texture disintegrated. The poached plums seem to stimulate got been seasonally replaced past times pears but the lychee remained. This was a hearty as well as warming dish, amongst potent saffron as well as vanilla flavours adding something to the milky mush. Not a bad wintertime brekkie.

I chose the most interesting-looking selection on the menu: panko crumbed free-range eggs amongst asparagus, smoked almond, preserved lemon as well as burnt butter ($16).

The crumbed poached eggs were a nifty idea, simply a piffling overcooked - the yolks weren't every bit runny every bit I hoped for as well as the whites had gone a piffling rubbery. Still, the combination amongst the lightly cooked asparagus, lemony-butter sauce as well as a plentiful serve of flaked as well as whole nuts. Not bad at all.

The fit-out is lovely - lots of airy infinite as well as overnice big windows. The java was adequate, every bit was the service (very efficient, if a piffling on the brusk side) as well as our meals were both adept enough. It's nifty to run into a house offering closed to interesting dishes, but in that location are nonetheless a few bugs to Fe out.

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As nosotros said, Nouveau Potato's rave was what position Heirloom on our radar. Veg blogger Melbourne Culinary Journal, Very Very Hungry Caterpillar, Tomato as well as Sharking for chips as well as drinks.

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Heirloom
131 Bourke Street, Melbourne
9639 1296
Breakfast: $9-$20
http://www.heirloomonbourke.com.au/

Accessibility: Looks good, amongst a apartment as well as broad entry as well as lots of infinite inside, as well as therefore tabular array service amongst payment at a depression counter.