Ordered the toast with sage cream cheese and berry compote ($4), and lemon sesame tea cake ($5) to share, and both were so good?!? I love the Sourdough toast which is so moist and still easy to cut through, not like some other sourdough bread which I've had elsewhere which can be really hard and tough to "saw" through. Only downside is that it's too small! We can only blame ourselves but then we were heading someplace else thereafter for lunch. The cream cheese was sinfully good and berry compote not sweet at all, instead it had a nice tanginess that balances out the cream cheese.
Limited seating although on a weekday late morning it wasn't a problem but I think they missed my toast order because it took almost half an hour before we got to sink our teeth into it! Thus, despite that there weren't many other customers...
Heard of this place really long ago and have always wanted to check it out so after years I finally found my way here one weekday morning. Despite the numerous recommendations, I decided on something lighter/smaller and got a blueberry oat bagel and long black. The bagel was pretty yummy because of the blueberries baked into it but probably wasn't toasted long enough to be sufficiently crispy but that's ok. I was asked if I wanted cream cheese, which had a price indicated on the tag with the bagel, which I didn't want, and asked instead if i could just have butter instead. Well I got it, and I didn't know until I was recalling my total bill later, that it costs $0.50 for the butter. 😔
I didn't know cafes charge for butter and I wasn't told at the cashiering point. For $4.50, the long black was quite a small cup too.. but oh well, the pastries were decently priced because there was a promo going on where you get 2 for the price of $8. I packed the other item (chocolate banana roll) which was really good!
May come back again to try the mains/sandwiches, or perhaps the cakes that were featured in other reviews but I didn't see any cakes when I popped in that day.
Had the breakfast set and opted for the English muffin (other 2 were croissant and white bread) and chose my eggs sunny-side up over poached or scrambled. For $8.90, this came with your choice of coffee/tea and a side salad. I'm not sure if it's strawberry jam that was served with the muffin, but it's pretty good as it wasn't overbearing on the sweetness, in fact there was some slight tanginess or sour berry notes that made it nice though I generally don't take jam. Spent a nice quiet hour in alfresco seating though it was quite sunny, but the sun shade and overhead ceiling fan made it overall quite cool. There are a few tables in the air-conditioned interior though.