Snag and Brown

Post night shift breakfasts ahoy! I went here with Mr 2., and a straggler who invited them self along, a real shame cause I wanted to talk trash about them while we were at breakfast. Nothing worse than going to a meal with someone you dislike, it taints my food.

This cafe is located down Ekibin Road in Annerley, the end further away from Ipswich Road if that helps. Parking is alright I suppose, just crossing the road in the morning can take a little while.

Local feeds

Here is their menu. Below is their disclosure? Or rather, an explanation of their menu items.

Good to know

Here is their drinks menu!

I love different drink options

I got the bounty hot chocolate made on soy milk with a double shot of espresso added in. It had a great coconut flavour and small pieces of toasted coconut in the drink to add some texture. I dunno why but its surprisingly hard to find flavoured hot chocolate drinks that aren't at a dessert cafe, the only other brekkie place that I know always makes them is Cafe Wrapture in West End!

+_+ yesss flavoured hot chocolates

Mr 2 got the English breakfast. Why is the cup the same size as the teapot?

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This is the medley of mushroom with truss tomatoes, poached eggs, toast, leafy greens and weird polenta sausage.

Ehhh

I got the braised pork belly with black pudding, sweet potato and caramelised onion hash brown, poached eggs, popcorn crackling and an onion and apple puree. What is it with me and ordering braised pork belly and receiving this dry looking roast chunk? Wikipedia even says so! Braising is when you fry something on a high heat and then continue the rest of the cooking in a liquid, until it becomes so tender you can push it apart with a fork. I was expecting this gelatinous brown blob where the fat had rendered down into the meat, where if I looked at it threateningly, it would just collapse!

So as you can expect, I was already irritable when I saw this. I didn't like this meal, the black pudding was cut unevenly and just warmed, they didn't fry off the black pudding until it was crispy. The apple puree was pretty sweet, The crackling was pretty and crunchy but not salty in the least. The sweet potato hash was pretty good though, quite sweet from the caramelised onion and the sweet potato pieces had a good crispy edge. I was expecting a different appearance though, more like the usual potato hash browns or like a squished hash to be honest?

Wow, I didn't realise how much I disliked this meal until I began typing this :/, before I did this, I would have classed my annoyance as mild.

Uhhh

At least my egg popped?

Yay?

Mr 2 got the big breakfast, pork chipolatas, thick cut bacon, your choice of eggs, your choice of hash brown, mushrooms, roasted truss tomatoes, white bean, house relish and pork cassoulet and leafy greens. He decided to go with poached eggs and the sweet potato and caramelised onion hash brown that I got with my dish. His comment was that everything was okay, nothing great but he wouldn't go back here based off that. He also adds that he doesn't like 62C degree poached eggs, he finds them too runny for his liking.

Thick bacon!

Snag and Brown
Atmosphere: 7, pretty cute converted house!
Service: 7, pretty friendly service, more than happy to change my drink for me as well as explain the menu.
Food: 5, average food.

Fundies Wholefood Cafe

VGirl and I went to Fundies Wholefoods on Mothers Day, before you go thinking why we didn't take Mama Pham with us, she was working that day and had already received her Mother's Day present. We had originally planned to go to Kettle and Tin but the line was out the door, so to Fundies, land of the veggo brekkies!

Fundies is half organic wholefoods cafe and half organic/wholefoods/supplements shop. We had a bit of a look around but sat down for lunch pretty quickly since we were so hungry.

Nice pictures!

This is the front counter. There is a glass drinks cabinet on the size and also a hot pie oven.

VGirl was intrigued

Here is a link to their menu! Below is a copy of the specials for the time that we went.

VGirl got this Phoenix Lemon, Lime and Bitters drink, its lightly carbonated as in tastes like slightly flat soft drink. She said she liked it like that.

Hmmm

I got a soy flat white and I thought it was pretty good! The coffee roasters here is an organic roaster from Byron Bay called Zentveld's.

F is for Fundies!

We got given our cutlery in a jar, I don't why but I was tickled pink by this at the time.

Interesting

I got the smoked salmon supreme, organic New Zealand smoked salmon with capers, lemon, spinach, organic poached eggs, purple onion, dill aioli and toasted Turkish bread soldiers. I thought it was a pretty decent breakfast, I have no complaints about any of the ingredients or the choice of them either. This was a tried and true classic combination of flavours and if you love your organic food I'd say this is the place for you!

Solid

VGirl had a really hard time picking what she wanted to eat since for once she had a billion choices. She got the vegan sausage, organic shallot and potato rosti, poached eggs, wilted spinach, lemon and salsa, capsicum jam and chipotle mayonnaise. The vegan sausage tasted like stuffing. She said that she would bring our vegetarian friend Mandy here one day since there was so much choice for the two of them.

Fundies Wholefood Cafe
Atmosphere: 7. your local cafe!
Service: 5, solid, I have no complaints.
Food: 8, good organic food. A great place to go if you want more than your standard vegetarian options.