Banana bread with Vanilla Ricotta and Berry Compote $10.50
Honestly, I just love eating too much. I love everything from buying groceries, to researching about food, to presenting it on lovely homeware, to the appropriate music to listen to when eating, and of course eating it. It’s not a good thing. Nevermind, we can always diet next week, can’t we? 
*Wink* (perhaps after the upcoming long weekend haha!)
So you can imagine how dangerous Melbourne was for me! I spent 4 nights in Melbourne last week – on a girls trip with my lovely Mum and Sister. We hit the shops, ate out, and dined at wonderful places – from the cheap to the expensive. Melbourne has fabulous variety of food, and awesome coffee, and wonderful service. Okay, I need to say this: How GOOD is the service in Melbourne! I felt so grateful I had the best sales assistant in David Jones – yes I went to David Jones in Melbourne to buy shoes (didn’t have time in Perth!) – and the service was so good, I felt I needed to fill in a compliments card, write to someone to tell them about this, or shed a tear! She never made me feel bad that I couldn’t decide, and she kept asking me to try more shoes on. By the way, these were no fancy shoes – just your normal essential footware! You can tell we are obviously starved of quality service in Perth. I never really thought we had bad service in Perth, but compared to Melbourne, I’m sorry but we do. Of course I’m sure there is horrible service in Melbourne too, but I reckon overall Perth could learn a thing or two from them! Anyway, I have digressed! Back to food…
A couple of awesome breakfast places in Melbourne that we visited that you have to go to next time you’re in town!
A place that is lovely to have the typical melbourne alley-way experience is Brown Sugar (25 Block Place, Melbourne) – it’s cosy, small and warm. Coffees are served extremely quickly – and they greet you as soon as you come in. Food is served promptly. I discovered this place through a colleague – we now always pay Brown Sugar a visit whenever we are in Melbourne for work!
I saw the table next to us order this rather yellow banana bread – I thought it might have been corn bread, but it was really brown bread. Very different type of texture – almost felt like a croissant crossed with bread. It had bits of real banana in it and little chunks of walnuts. It was served warm, and with butter, it was simply delicious!
Banana bread $6.90
Salmon with Poached Eggs, Rocket on blinis ($16.90)
This was really fantastic!!! Three pikelet sized blinis, which was slightly crispy on the outside with the crispy edges, and it was slightly sweet. Trust me, it worked perfectly with the poached eggs, salmon and rocket. It was SO delicious! Yummy!!! The salmon wasn’t smoked but that worked well as it allowed all the flavours to shin.
Skinny Flat White $3.50
Yes I forgot to take picture of the coffee – but here it is! It was STRONG for a flat white, but it was wonderful. I had coffee at about 5 different places in Melbourne and they all tasted really different. This coffee was strong and full of flavour – very nice!
My friend C took me for breakfast at this cute little place in Brighton called Bossy Boots, It was SO good. Brighton was where my friend M’s wedding was held. About a 20-25min drive from Melbourne CBD – from what I know, Brighton is like our Cottesloe. Bossy Boots had the good old fashioned service. We were served by a young pretty waitress who obviously knew the food and loved working there. They served water in these cute vintage jugs (which I would have liked to buy – I hear they sell it in Armadale in Melbourne – but I can just imagine it would have been costly!) – which I forgot to take pictures of, but they were definitely eye catching.
The cakes on display looked utterly delicious! Had I not been on my way to a wedding I would have definitely bought a couple to go!
Banana bread with Vanilla Ricotta and Berry Compote $10.50
How ADORABLE is this plate!!! This banana bread was more like what I expected compared to Brown Sugar’s. It was soft, warm and very banana, the vanilla ricotta and berries were the perfect partner. Super delicious!
Corn Fritters with Crispy Bacon, Sour Cream, Avocado Salsa and Tomato Relish $17.50
YUM! Quite simply – YUM! I have started to really like avocado (never really liked it before! It seemed to mashy for my liking previously!) – and boy was this good! Basically the corn fritter was like a corn pancake, and the crispy bacon, avocado salsa and little dollop of tomato relish and sour cream just created an amazing plate of colours and flavours. It felt so fresh, so simple and totally inspirational for my next cooked breakfast that I make!
The coffee was not too bad – not as good as Brown Sugar’s, but definitely okay.
So next time you’re in Melbourne, do give both these places a go! You won’t be disappointed!!!
Brown Sugar
25 Block Place, Melbourne
(03) 9639 7577
Bossy Boots
106 Bay Street, Brighton Melbourne
Ph: (03) 9596 6825
http://www.bossyboots.com.au/
The prices are definitely cheaper than Perth for sure. Looks like it was great fun