Samson and Sophie

Jubi was on her way back from our trip to Higher Octave and Atomica when she decided to stop by Esher St Deli for some museli and bits. When she was there, her waitress told her that a sister store had been opened up just recently. It was located somewhere in Teneriffe and she excitedly texted about it.

I checked out the Esher St store website and we found that there was a new entry called Samson and Sophie. A cursory examination of Urbanspoon lead us to its exact location, its current rating of 90% with ten votes, two basic reviews and best of all things, ZERO BLOG POSTS. OFF WE GO.

We had a bit of trouble finding Teneriffe because it wasn't found in Jubi's GPS, so we had to use my phone to Google Map it. It ended up being at the end of Merthyr Street in New Farm! Easy! The day we were there, it was overcast and constantly raining. That didn't seem to put anyone off their meals at all, all the tables were taken up when we were there and there was constantly people walking in and out of the store. I actually saw one of the doctors I worked with there, which was a bit weird. Like seeing a teacher outside of school, do they even have lives?

The store is a very cute little gift packed deli, even more so than Esher St is! Solely because the store is much smaller so things are piled on top of each other, there are four small tables nooks to sit inside that had people there and all the people milling around the store waiting to order. I went inside on four or five different occasions to try and get some clearer photos of the interior. Every time I went back, there were more and more things that I noticed and wanted to buy, from fancy hand made soaps, wooden iPhone cases, do it yourself fresh dairy product kits like a Greek yoghurt/fresh cheese and Italian cheese kit, book marks, salad dressings, pastas, sauces, hand creams and all sorts of jewellery.

Glass display cabinent

Hand creams galore

All kinds of shiny things

Even more shiny things

Cards and salad dressings

Flowers and the coffee machine

Like Esher St, they also see herbs, flowers and furniture. The desk that we were sitting at for breakfast, could've been yours for a cheap $35!

HERBS GET YOUR HERBS HERE

Even more herbs!

It has a space for all your junk!

I really like the redone Weber BBQs, which have been replanted with grass growing out of the grill and a small place for your meal or coffee to sit on.

Interesting

BBQ!

We had some difficulty finding a spot to sit at initially. Our waitress ended up wiping down a desk and we relocated it to underneath the awning in front of the closed hairdresser. We were identified by our cute little recipe card. I got a box of these from the Lifeline Bookfest a few years back and it has really odd combinations of flavours haha. Here is their menu incidentally.

The recipe was gross btw

Jubi ordered the Hobby House mixed museli with seasonal fruit. She got honey comb, strawberry and pears on top of yoghurt and a crunchy museli that I can't remember. Jubi says it was a pretty standard combo of rolled oats, dried apricots and toasted almonds with a hint of vanilla that made for a tasty vanilla milk at the end of it all.

Why icing sugar?

I've never had honeycomb before and I was unsure what the beeswax would taste like. Its oddly chewy and tasteless, it reminds me of when you eat the gummy outside from jelly beans where it constantly sticks to your teeth when you bit it.

Pretty pretty

I ordered the slow cooked ham hock with beans in a tomato sauce with poached eggs and sourdough. it was a very pretty sight. The tomato sauce was super rich and had been cooked long enough that the kidney beans were full of flavour. The sauce was so rich it actually gave me a bad case of reflux about an hour or so afterwards. The pulled ham hock was delicious as well, smokey, salty and so tender.

Tasty combo

The ham was hard to find in the sauce with that being said, I really had to search through my sauce and I had initially thought it had been left out. It was just hard to find between all the beans and sauce which was a bit disappointing. The eggs were poached a little firmer than I'd like but it was still soft in the centre. It was a very good winter combo to scoop up.

More gooey plz

I ordered the house salted caramel shake which came with the glorious streak of golden caramel down the side. It was a very frothy, creamy shake but I thought the salt wasn't a pronounced enough flavour, just enough to stop it being sickly sweet. It did look damn good though.

Ooooh, ahhh

Jubi ordered a piccolo which I could not photograph cleanly for the life of me. It took me almost ten photos before I finally got this one. She said it was a good strong coffee but that the milk had not been textured as silkily as she liked.

Cawfee

Samson and Sophie
Atmosphere: 8, very cute like joint with lots of places to sit at and to marvel at. I highly recommend sitting inside if there is space as there are lots of things to see. I really like the decorations, so vibrantly coloured!
Service: 6, the waitress at the counter who took our order was absolutely fantastic but everyone else looked very, very confused. Its counter service, but no one seemed to have any idea where anyone was seated. Jubi had to get up twice, once to get us water and the second time to remind them to give us cutlery. One guy asked me three times in about five minutes if I was waiting for anything else, same guy every time.
Food: 7.5, really good combination of flavours. My only disappointing half mark is that the food is a touch on the small side portion wise. The museli was served in a very small bowl with a very large jug that was half filled but held probably a cup and a half of milk. While my baked beans had about 2cm of sauce, and it was hard to find the ham hock bits, if I hadn't had my shake I would've still been hungry when I finished. I definitely think if you're looking for a tasty but small meal, head here.