August 16, 2008: Minimo

Cindy together with I invented only about excuse for a Sabbatum breakfast on the town - I can't fifty-fifty shout back what it was, perhaps nosotros were out of milk. Anyway, I did only about quick internet research together with convinced Cindy that nosotros should become somewhere new. And that somewhere was Minimo.

Minimo isn't quite role of the whole Sydney Road scene inwards Brunswick, it's only a picayune flake due north of the trendy bits. And Minimo's non alone trendy - it's depression cardinal together with relaxed, amongst lots of large windows together with a fairly large opened upward kitchen plonked inwards the corner.

The carte du jour is basically divided inwards two: eggs together with French toast (there are only about beans together with things tacked on to the end, but the eggs together with toast are the existent focus). I spent a piece pondering, earlier settling on the tapenade: 2 poached eggs, mushroom together with capsicum tapenade amongst sour dough. Of class every bit presently every bit I'd made my choice, the waitress came over together with reeled off 2 stunning sounding specials: only about assort of regal roesti amongst poached eggs together with the eventual winner: 2 poached eggs amongst grilled plain mushrooms, blueish cheese together with a chilli jam served upward on sourdough toast ($14). Hard to resist.

And it comfortably lived upward to my expectations - 2 neat picayune eggs, plopped on a twain of mushrooms all piled upward on the toast amongst the chilli together with cheese drizzled across the summit together with a smattering of greens together with cherry tomatoes for colouring every bit much every bit anything else. It all dissolved pretty speedily into a liquidy, eggy mess together with became much less photogenic. Still, the cheese together with chilli combined brilliantly amongst the perfectly poached eggs together with fifty-fifty the tomatoes were picayune bursts of flavour. Great, smashing stuff.

Cindy couldn't resist the lure of French toast, unfortunately rejecting my 2 preferred options: mixed wild berries or stewed apple tree together with pear, instead intentionally picking out something she knew I wouldn't steal: caramalised banana, served upward amongst maple syrup together with ricotta ($12). The toast was smothered inwards eggs (maybe to a greater extent than than Cindy would convey liked), but the banana was caramelly together with delicious (at to the lowest degree every bit much every bit bananas tin be).

Throw inwards only about smashing java for me, together with a ginger together with lemongrass tea for Cindy together with you've got a real satisfying breakfast. The portions Minimo serves upward aren't gigantic, but they're perfectly formed - neat picayune plates filled amongst flavor together with imagination. The staff are all ridiculously pleasant together with friendly together with the whole vibe of the house (at to the lowest degree past times midday or whenever nosotros turned up) is pose back. So ride the tram a few extra stops side past times side fourth dimension you're heading to Savers or the Meditteranean Wholesalers together with halt inwards at Minimo for a bite.

Address: 822 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Ph: 9383 2083
Price: veg breakfasts $4.50 - $14