Drove down the Bunbury last weekend and paid a visit to The Happy Wife. It was around 10:30am on a Saturday morning but there were still a couple of tables free, so we grabbed a scenic spot at the waterfront between two families with children. Payment and ordering at the counter was easy, staff were friendly and food did not take long to arrive.
A ordered their breakfast parfait – she visits this place quite often and said she loved everything on the menu that she had tried so far.
K ordered the homemade crumpets. I forgot to ask her how the meal was but I didn’t hear any complaints and it looked delicious! I almost ordered this myself.
Finally here’s what I ordered, the Eggs Florentine. One poached egg was perfect whilst the other was slightly overdone, not runny but still soft. The spinach was well wilted and the bread was spread liberally with butter and toasted so it had a salty moreishness to it.
My only disappointment was that they had nudie juices available, but no freshly squeezed juices, which is what I tend to order with my breakfasts. This is not too bad as breakfast disappointments go; given that the food is excellent, staff friendly and view is amazing so I was pretty happy with my experience there.
Here’s the view from our table:
Would highly recommend a visit to this place if you’re passing through Bunbury – they serve breakfast all day!
by Sab on November 19, 2011
Every corner of Greenhouse matched with their sustainable concept; from the untreated, sturdy wooden chairs to the recycled brown glass bottle my orange juice was served in. This also gave the place a real sense of indie trendiness, although the crowd on that weekday morning seemed to be full of business people, which made sense because Greenhouse’s location was so close to all the offices on St Georges Tce.
The service was great, when we arrived at 9am the staff were very attentive and friendly and they came a few times during the meal to refill our water glasses. When it came to ordering, I asked the waitress what was good on the menu. She proceeded to genuinely recommend almost everything on the menu, which was little help but somewhat reassuring, so I ordered the toasted oat muesli, berries and yoghurt. I usually never order muesli at restaurants because it is such a simple dish, but my stomach was ready for some light healthy food after a couple weeks of eating out.
Muesli is never a very exciting dish, but taking that into consideration, this was the best muesli I’ve ever had. The yoghurt is fluffed which was very novel and gave it a light, almost frothy texture. The strawberries were nice and the blueberries were exceptional; large, round, firm and fresh. Muesli mix itself was great, with the toasting and high ratio of seed to oat, it had a great crunchy texture.
Alina’s wild mushroom, slow cooked eggs, grilled polenta looked like a tiny ecosystem on a plate. She found it intriguing at first, especially the gelatinous texture of the slow cooked eggs. She said that it tasted good, but felt that there was a lack of crunch to counterbalance the soft textures in the dish, which eventually became displeasing. The polenta cakes were crunchy on the outside but were soft on the inside.
Alina and I both would have liked to have chosen other things from the menu, but the staff were friendly and the ambience was great with natural finishes to the interiors. I would be curious to go again – the crab congee looked really good and I was on the verge of ordering it!
Check it out: http://www.greenhouseperth.com/
by Sab on November 6, 2011
by Sab on October 22, 2011
Another visit to Boucla today, this time with more people, for breakfast! The cafe did not take bookings and was about half full when I arrived on a Saturday morning at 8am and quickly filled over the next half hour or so. The girl who served me was kind enough to let me take photos of the things at the counter, pictured below.
I ordered “Eggs on Toast” off the breakfast board and mysteriously, they did not ask how I liked my eggs. I was in a sleep deprived state and didn’t think to specify, so when I got back to my table I wondered what I would end up getting: Scrambled? Fried? Poached? Other?
Poached! I was really happy to get the poached eggs, both because it’s healthier and also because I prefer the taste / texture.
I’ve included some snaps of what other people were eating below, managed to steal all of them (except the baklava snap) while people were about their business, away from the table ordering more food or visiting the bathroom!
The baklava was not mine, but I wish it had been. I was planning to order it, but was far too full after the poached eggs and toast.
That concludes my quick post for today. Now it’s time to get back to exam study… or the gym!
See also: Chocolate cake at Boucla
by Sab on August 14, 2011
The bright yellow hexagonal pattern outside Milk and Honey on James St caught our eye and we headed over to investigate it as a lunch option. There were many tasty-looking sandwiches in the display cabinet, however much to our delight, we discovered that breakfast foods were served until 2pm on Saturdays and Sundays so that is what we ordered. I ordered watermelon juice and “Healthy Breakfast” whilst Lee had apple, orange and carrot juice (you can combine up to 3 choices from their list), and “Spanish Breakfast”.
Food was good, not writing a review of the place – just keen to post pictures, so here they are:
by Sab on February 27, 2011
I stayed as a guest in Albany over the weekend; not only did I encounter a fresh batch of people to be disturbed by my compulsion to photograph food before I eat it, I was also lucky enough to sample a cooked breakfast made by the boys living there.
They really knew what they were doing, the food was delicious. The poached egg was perfect and the bacon was crispy around the edges.
Here’s proof that the hash browns were made from scratch:
by Sab on February 20, 2011
A couple of snapshots from breakfast at Toast this morning in East Perth. This cafe is clearly very popular; by 8:30am on a Sunday the place was already bustling with customers and orders. We were lucky to spot a recently vacated table fairly quickly. Staff were quite prompt to clear old plates and cutlery from the table and replace them with some cheerfully orange plastic cups and a jug of water for us.
Ordering is placed at the counter and from what I can remember, it did not take too long for the food to arrive. Here, Skye’s slender hands tuck into Eggs Benedict.
I ordered poached eggs on wholegrain toast, which had oats coated onto the crusts. It came with 2 servings of individually wrapped butter, not pictured. To counter the savoury menu option, I decided to order the chocolate milkshake, which was described on the menu as “almost a litre of goodness with icecream”. It had a light consistency to it which made finishing the almost-litre much easier!
This is a rather unimpressive photo of the milkshake: this fate befalls photographers who cannot be bothered to move out of their chairs to take photos ;)
