Address: 1205 Great North Rd, Pt Chevalier
We came here because it's local and the pickings in Pt Chev are slim. Plus I once saw that Ray McVinnie off the telly eating here.
Parking was easy. Not much happens around Pt Chev of a Saturday morning.
We walked in and immediately thought the decor needs a freshen up. And the floor-to-roof windows mean you're in plain view of the street. Call me a philistine, but the couple of paintings on the walls could only be described as coming from the "1990s-cafe-hell" school of art. ("It's lucky there's not more wallspace," says Louise). There's also a junkie-zombie style Santa on the window (only 320 sleeps to go!). It's counter service with a busy deli section - I've had stuff from the deli before and it's very good.
The most unusual thing about the menu was the flipside. The front page has the usual brunch suspects - benedicts, scrambles, mueslis, etc. But overleaf the "light meals" sections offers some great variations. Seddon Fields brekkie ($18) features portobello mushrooms, the Pasadena bagel ($16) promises bacon, avocado, spinach and hollandaise goodness and a joint like this is bound to have great sweetcorn fritters ($16).
