Barmuda Cafe

Sleepy, sunny Saturday mornings are the best for brunch with the girls. Barmuda was our objective for today, a cosy little cafe just off King St.

Tess and I were torn between the corn fritters and the potato stack so we decided to get both and share. The corn fritter stack had three large corn fritters layered with three enormous pieces of bacon (extra) topped with roasted tomato. There wasn't enough batter to the fritters so the sweet juicy corn kernals went tumbling all over the plate every time I tried fork a piece. Nonetheless, it was delicious with the pesto sauce.

Corn fritters with bacon

The potato stacks were served with with scrambled eggs, rocket, aubergine and tomato relish. Although the potato was a little too fried and crispy, the combination with the tangy relish balanced it out a bit - if only there was more relish!!

Potato stack

Rushie had already decided on the vanilla rice before we got there so I'm guessing it's a winner.

Vanilla rice

What a great way to start the weekend!

Well Connected Cafe

For a pre-Homebake fuelling, we stopped by the Well Connected cafe in Glebe. To feed our hungry bellies we all had decently sized breakfast/brunch dishes.

The breakfast bruschetta consisted of two slabs of grilled bread topped with tomatoes and two poached eggs.

Breakfast bruschetta

The casablanca eggs were a creamy mixture of eggs, fetta and mint, served with two pieces of toasted bread.

Casablanca eggs

The massive breakfast was surprisingly un-massive considering I could finish the entire thing! The scrambled eggs were nice and creamy but also quite ordinary. The portion of mushrooms was generous but not enough to warrant the "massive" label. Together with the roasted tomato (half) and single lettuce leaf "salad", I wasn't entirely impressed with this one.

Massive vegetarian breakfast

Alas, it did not quite get us through to the evening...

Poporo

Poporo is one of the new places that has opened up where Mama's Kitchen used to be in Market City. The food is "Japanese modern cafe", the decor funky and the staff friendly.

Along the front of the restaurant are row of touch screen computers where you put in your order - great novelty value!

The service was quick, our seaweed salad arriving minutes after our order was put in. This had an eclectic mix of purple, green and white seaweed on top of a garden salad, dressed with an olive oil and soy dressing.

Assorted seaweed salad

The squid ink spaghetti had a rich tomato flavour, despite the inky looking sauce.

Squid ink spaghetti

The huge Poporo burger stack consisted of a crumbed and fried beef patty with bolognaise and white sauce, bacon, Italian leaves, tomato and parmesan cheese.

Poporo burger

A bit of an Asian take on your average cafe food - some interesting combo's I wouldn't mind trying include the teriyaki tofu and vegetable burger and the crabmeat and eggplant doria (oven baked white mornay sauce and melty cheese in tomato rice) - there's always next time!

Lamrock Cafe

What a beautiful weekend! To make the most of it and the fact that our friend Ade was visiting from Melbourne, we went to Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi.


Before our walk from Bondi to Tamarama, we stopped by Lamrock Cafe for a bit of fuel. I was ravenous (as usual) and went for the hearty Cajun chicken burger, served with (salty!) fries. Tender spiced chicken pieces, lettuce, tomato and mayo on a crusty burger bun.

Cajun chicken burger

Ade was in the mood for something sweet and ordered the pikelets from the breakfast menu. This came with orange slices and maple syrup.

Pikelets

Em went for the vegetarian lasagne, a huge serving of pasta with a chunk of feta on the side.

Vegetarian lasagne

Content with our lunches, we leisurely made our way along the coastal walk, along with hundreds of other people who also realised this was the last weekend of the exhibition! Oh well... maybe we should go earlier next year :).