December 11, 2010: Northward Cafeteria Ii

Saturday was Cindy's birthday. Normally we'd bring been setting off across town for breakfast somewhere novel in addition to exciting inwards celebration, but this yr her birthday coincided alongside a horribly stressful function menstruum that meant every non-celebratory infinitesimal of the solar daytime needed to live spent at inwards her office. So nosotros looked closer to habitation for a overnice birthday breakfast option. North Cafeteria inwards Rathdowne Village check the neb perfectly.

Not much has changed since our last visit - the prices bring snuck upwardly yesteryear a dollar or thus but the bill of fare remains basically the same. It's nevertheless the hippest house on Rathdowne St in addition to they nevertheless churn out pretty decent coffees, which helped kicking me out of my cold-inspired forenoon funk (the observant volition honour my indulgence inwards mocktails at Baba the nighttime before, also related to illness).

I knew I wanted roughly of the beans I'd had final time, but also knew that I needed to a greater extent than diverseness than the basic edible bean dish provides, thus I went for a produce your ain brekkie: poached eggs alongside sides of beans, avocado in addition to mushrooms ($16.5).

Henry's beans excellence, but are nevertheless creamy in addition to herb-licious, field the mushrooms in addition to eggs were perfectly cooked. It all made for messy piles of delicious toast topping (egg mush, smeared alongside beans in addition to and thus dotted alongside avo chunks in addition to mushies). Outstanding.

Cindy decided she needed something hearty inwards her to tackle the trauma to come, thus she took a rare detour into the savoury side of the menu: fried eggs alongside tomato plant in addition to spuds ($13.5).

Again, everything combined beautifully although Cindy's ardour was focussed, typically, on the spuds: lightly browned, slightly oily in addition to deliciously starchy. They were similar a lilliputian serve of breakfast chips. H5N1 perfect maiden of all to her day.

We've been strangely irksome to revisit North - it's close, has a proficient arrive at of vego options in addition to puts together a pretty first-class breakfast. Maybe it falls a lilliputian brusque of some of our favourites inwards terms of value for money, but it's remains an first-class local brekkie option.

Read most our previous see to North here.

Strangely, in that place haven't been likewise many reviews of North since our final visit: but Slicing Almonds in addition to Zesting Lemons in addition to The Breakfast Club Carlton in addition to this brief summary at non-blog Broadsheet.