Brioche French toast waffles from Roosevelt’s Diner & Bar, with blueberry sauce and vanilla ice cream. Essentially a neighbourhood bakery-style bun that sneaked into a waffle press whilst playing hide and seek and accidentally got pressed in a tragic accident. More eggy French toast than waffle, though. 3.6/5 P.S. All…
Signature breads from Crown Bakery & Cafe: (from top) Kaori Ciabatta, Crown Bread and Hainanese Chicken Bread. Kaori Ciabatta: A soft, fluffy bread that tastes like a cross between mee chiam kueh (peanut pancake, without the peanut) and Chinese white honeycomb cake (白糖糕) from coffeeshops. Went delightfully well with sweet…
Waffle breakfast – waffle with pork sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs & maple syrup. Despite the waffles looking as if they were fairly shagged and limp after a hard day of grading papers, CCA supervision and other teacherly endeavours, the moist and doughy quadrants were surprisingly fragrant and sweet, with a…
Crown Breakfast from Crown Bakery & Cafe – Crown Puff Pastry centrepiece with sunny-side up egg, with red wine-braised oxtail, chicken sausage, Canadian back bacon, sautéed mushrooms, baked tomato and a side of mesclun with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinaigrette. While I have my reservations about the inclusion of…
Crab Cake Benedict from Roosevelt’s Diner & Bar – crab cake, English muffin, poached egg and garlic mayo. Despite the English muffin being a stubborn little runt and the poached egg being rather devoid of personality in spite of best efforts from the egg yolk and sweet garlic mayo, it…
Customised Bacon Eggs Breakfast from Tête-à-Tête Café with added sausages and mushrooms. The bacon eggs were quite delicious, fusing together harmoniously such that with each bite, you taste both the egg (yolk) and that familiar, reassuring bacon fragrance and saltiness. You can tell with one bite of both the pork sausage…
French toast breakfast from The Laneway Market – fluffy eggy brioche French toast, bacon, chicken chipolatas, baked beans and salad. The french toast was fantastic, thoroughly eggy and one of the eggiest I’ve ever tried. The chipolatas were tender and hotdog-esque, whilst the bacon was like a crispy pig cracker.…
Truffle-Honey French Toast – vanilla-scented creme fraiche, berries, cinnamon sugar, truffle-honey. The French toast arrives looking all innocent and plaited hair with edible flowers and all, but once you sink your teeth into that eggy, soft, warm and fluffy toast you’d toss your head back and oink at the sky like…
Big Plate – two scrambled eggs, brioche toast, bacon, mushrooms and bratwurst. The toast was fluffy but rather burnt, the eggs nicely buttery and the mushrooms happily moist. I was undecided about the bacon – it may not have been my preferred crispy type, but it was ultimately competently fatty,…