Hi all,
Well now that we're on holidays it's been time for some serious socialising! Brunch (a late breakfast/early lunch) has become a very "in" thing to do it seems...brunch seems to be taking over from lunch... I'm not entirely sure why... but brunch does have a special novelty factor... there's something about having breakfast food later than usual and it being perfectly acceptable!
My friend and I went to a lovely Brunch place the other week in Surry Hills (a suburb not very far from Uni at all, just on the non-chinatown side of Central). The place we went to is called the "Book Kitchen" which incidentally is very similar to one of the "Common Project" ideas of a group in our cohort - their ideas was to open a "Book Cafe" on campus (stay tuned to see if this actually becomes a reality!).
The menu was quite eclectic and the food was delicious!! As for the books... well there were quite a few in a shelf adorning one wall...but it wasn't the ceiling-to-floor bookshelf-as-wall image I had in my head! I had spanish baked eggs with tomato and oregano and my friend had sour toast with avocado, persian feta, poached egg and rocket! We were also very tempted by the date and fig pikelets with poached pear, rhubarb and vanilla ricotta. Having said this, we were both quite adventurous with our choices- there were also more traditional brunch foods such as egg and bacon rolls, muesli and scrambled eggs.
After this feast we went across the road to the Bourke St Bakery for a very early afternoon tea (not sure how this translates when in the world of brunch!)... I had this yummy creme brulee tart and my friend had a raspberry and pear tart. And we both had hot chocolates that were soooo good! No wonder the line to this tiny little place was out onto the footpath!
All in all a very delicious way to spend one mid-week late morning/early afternoon :)