RJIE: Breakfast at Ponycat

Oh Ponycat, one of the most beloved of the New Farm breakfast scene. I have wanted to go here for years, but newer and shinier places have always beckoned. It's finally time!

I had a good run of no RJIE posts but its time to have them again, cause even though Ponycat does a slightly fancy normal brekkie, nothing is really pulling me back to try their menu again :/.

Eyeball the menu!

More menu options

I like the interior decorating, I don't actually know if you can sit and eat under those windows but it looks like a nice place to curl up and read a book. I think I'm a sucker for reading nooks.

The interior is lovely

I got the iced tea, I don't know why it had such a high head of foam on it. It had a lemon and green flavour but it wasn't particularly sweet and was mostly ice. I wouldn't get it again.

Beer steins

I got the mushroom stack with goats cheese, poached eggs and honey baked ham. There is one sole piece of honey baked ham, but its a very large, thick, succulent and sweet piece, which is slouched on the left hand side of that stack. The flavours and ingredients used in the stack, spinach, garlic roasted mushrooms, pesto and creamy goats cheese are hardly new combinations, but they always work so beautifully together, who can fault them?

Classic flavours

I'm not sure why the lighting changed so dramatically between these two pictures but I have to add I got suspicious of the poached eggs as they were joined together. They did have a gorgeous oozy centre, so I suppose I'll forgive them, the crazy amounts of cracked pepper was my idea not Ponycat's.

Still runny!

Ponycat:
Atmosphere: 7, bright, eclectically decorated little cafe. I love the reading nook.
Service: 6, solid. I can't remember anything particularly interesting about their service or negative.
Food: 6, well cooked, classic flavours in a good size. Nothing particularly revolutionary but great for a solid feed. I wouldn't go back there with that being said, only because I don't feel like I'd try anything else off their menu.