Saturday, February 9, 2013

Breakfast Thieves

The Breakfast Thieves is smack bang in the heart of the uber trendy back streets of Fitzroy and it rocks the so-hot-right-now-breakfast-vibe that you'd expect.  My uber trendy friend Linda was the one who directed us there so I had high expectations from the start.  On the corner of leafy Gore Street and funky Rose Street, just near Smith Street.  Lovely location, a billion bikes chained up the front and a beautiful Sunday morning to boot. 



As you may be able to tell from these pictures, it's not going for the blatent bohemian op-shop kitted out look but it blends refurbished rustic with brand spankin' pretty well.  It was pretty packed but our coffee orders were taken quickly as were our breakfast orders. 

The coffee was pretty good.  I'm trying to cut back on milk/soy so went a long black, and it's harder to disguise badly made coffee without tainting it with milk, so well done on the coffee to Breakfast Thieves. Whilst the coffee came out in a reasonable time, the mains took ages.  Aggggeeess.  It was busy but not lines out the door busy, but who knows.  When we enquired as to our where our meals were, they were very apologetic, advised it would be two minutes and offered us free drinks.  Yes please free drinks, but another strike was Linda's free drink never came.  

 

Linda ordered the Chilled Sticky Black Rice Pudding, which come with coconut mango sorbet and toasted sesame seeds. Unfortunately it wasn't that great.  The rice was a bit under cooked which is enough to put one of ones pudding. 

Kai and I got "The Leprechaun" which was corn and goats fetta fritters, with warmed grapes and cherry tomatoes, honey salsa with grilled asparagus and poached eggs.  It was amazing.  Amazing.  The one downfall of being lucky enough to have so many great breakfasts so often is that perhaps I'm a bit spoilt when it comes to food and not as easily impressed anymore.  This blew me away with every mouthful.  It's such a shame that one person got an average meal, their free drink never came and the rest of us got to have this: 


It's worth giving it a go, but do go when you're not starving in case your meal takes ages too, and don't order the rice pudding.  But do, do, do get those amazing fritters



 

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