I’m sorry for ridiculous overplayed title but I couldn’t resist! After months of studying Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia for Year 12 Lit, I have a fondness for all things Arcadian. And, in retrospect, I should have had rice pudding with jam which I could swirl through it and have delightful chaosy fun.
Anyway, our lovely friend AB has just arrived from Qld and it was time for some delicious breakfast, Melbourne-style. I sent her a list of cafe names and told her to choose without any research whatsoever. Without any hesitation, she chose Arcadia (mainly, I believe, because she is living around the corner) and I was very happy with her choice, having had the Most Delicious Savoury Muffin of my life there a few weeks earlier.
We got the last indoor table at about 9:30 or so and felt very smug about the whole situation. Coffee order was taken straightaway which always makes me happy and we perused the blackboard. My eye was immediately drawn to the mushrooms because whilst I love mushrooms, I don’t cook them at home because they are not Esther’s bag at all. I was also interested in the eggs with chilli – I can’t remember the details but it sounded a bit like the Hot Indonesian Eggs at CERES which is high up on my favourite breakfasts of all time.
Esther and AB both went with (and I quote) "pan-fried mash potato cake with spinach, bacon, poached eggs, mayo and pesto" and it looked fantastic – I don’t partake in meat anymore but that was some delicious looking bacon.
The mushrooms were great and the goats’ cheese was perfect – it’s classic for a reason, peeps.
Arcadia knock out a great breakfast but there are two downsides:
1. They only do breakfast from 8 to 11:30 (M-F) and 9 to 4 (S&S). I understand that limited kitchen space sometimes means you need to shut down breakfast so you can cook lunch but their breakfasts are so good that I would love to be able to eat them all day.
2. They are a bit pricier than a lot of other places. The quality is amazing though so the extra cost might be worth it.
Arcadia
193 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
4 comments:
That was some seriously delicious everything!
It was indded. I am planning on going there tomorrow to eat things. YUM YUM.
Great! Now I can try Arcadia with some backup research, it's just near my house and I'm always on the lookout for interesting breakfast places (being a breakfast sceptic generally).
Jetsetting Joyce
@Joyce - I can't imagine be a breakfast sceptic (as can be seen by all my reviews being breakfast so far) but to each their own. Arcadia do knock breakfast out of the park though. And they make a good cake/slice/biscuit!
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