All day Breakfast
There are few things that make my heart sing like the words, “All day Breakfast”. I am but a simple being and as you will no doubt be aware by now, I love good breakfast food. Particularly Eggs Benedict. So when I’m dining out for lunch, and I see Eggs Benedict on the menu but it’s only served until 10.30 or 11am, I’m sad.
You can imagine my delight the other day when I stopped in one of the five cafés in Parkes at nearly 2pm and there was EB on the menu and they had an ALL DAY Menu. All 10 pages of it.
There it was. Eggs Benny, nestled between Eggs and Bacon and Morning Glory Burger. The EB offered “Bacon OR Ham, poached eggs with hollandaise sauce, served on sourdough”.
Being early afternoon I didn’t order a coffee, instead I ordered a “Green Goddess”. This Smoothie concoction is made up of Apple juice, spinach, pineapple, ginger, dates & ice. Why the ampersand…this isn’t a hand set print job.
I opted to eat in, because as we all know and even if you don’t have firsthand experience, I’m sure you can imagine that take away EB wouldn’t work too well.
The café itself is well appointed with comfortable chairs and stools at the higher tables, I chose to sit at a high table, in the corner, so I could take photos. I always choose a vantage point where I can get good photos and people watch. It’s all part of the fun when dining out, whether I’m having EB or not.
This time there was a couple clearly arguing, a solo gent who left more food than he ate, and staff milling around looking busy.
I sat and waited while lamenting the use of plastic plants for decoration. Dust collectors rather than air purifiers. It baffles me. They rarley look good after the first couple of weeks, and once they have that light layer of dust, just look completely ratsh*t. I know you can wash good quality silk leave, but I have found most people that use them, don’t.
The Green Goddess arrived first. In plastic, but with a paper straw.
I’m dining in. Why is my drink in plastic? Oh so much plastic. So much lamentation!
OK so the straw with disintegrate before I’m done drinking the drink, but the cup will still be clogging up the planet for a millennia after I’m dead and buried. [eye roll]
Next up food.
Before you see the picture, I’ll say this. There is plenty of it. Given that FIFO (fly in fly out) workers make up a large portion of cafe clientele in Parkes, it makes sense that the serving is huge. A pile of bacon on two slides of toast, the standard two poached eggs and lashings of packet sauce, that had clearly been heated, curdled and been allowed to cool, hence the lumps of hollandaise skin.
Ohh dear.
I will say, in it’s defense, the eggs where cooked perfectly.
I later found out that the owner, and usual chef, was having her first day off in nine days, so this may not represent the usual standard. I may need to go back, just to confirm my suspicions.
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Location: Deja Brew
Address: Shop 9/169 Clarinda St, Parkes NSW 2870
Website: only Orderup (which wasn’t working when I was there)
EB Price: $23.50
