Cafe Rosamond is a hole-in-the-wall cafe housed in literally two small rooms, and at 10am on a sunny weekday morning I discovered that many of the artsy skinny-jeans crowd of Fitzroy/Collingwood (who are these lucky people? what do they do for a living?) had cosied themselves into the wooden school chairs and small tables.
Looking for a substantial feed in the short and sweet breakfast menu, my choice was homemade beans and feta with toast ($11). The plate served up a large heap of fragrant beans spiked with rosemary sprigs and bay leaves, garnished with mint so fresh you could smell it from the next table. The dish was let down by the frigid crumbled feta – its just-pulled-out-of-the-fridge temperature created an unpleasant contrast to the rest of the warming dish. Otherwise, some good beans.
Update 22 April 2010: Cafe Rosamond has just started hosting dessert only Thursday nights with dessert maestro Pierre Roelofs. Read a review of the evening here.
- Cafe Rosamond, Rear/191 Smith St, Fitzroy +61 3 9419 2270
I really like Cafe Rosamond – so quirky and tiny. My only gripe is that the coffee is inconsistent – some of the baristas make an amazing coffee and others make a lousy one. I’ve stopped going there since I can get a consistently good coffee at either Newtown or Proud Marys…
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| January 7, 2010, 3:22 pm
Hi Emily
From memory I think their sandwiches are also great, though I can’t comment on their coffee. Thanks for letting everyone know – life’s too short to drink bad coffee.
Jetsetting Joyce
I love it there, just wish it wasn’t so hard to get a seat some weekends! The avocado on toast is awesome, and they know how to do scrambled eggs on bacon properly.
I also think I saw Chris from Masterchef in there the other day as well.
I haven’t been for ages (I can only go on weekends these days and it’s always too packed), but the beans used to be my favourite. It used to have the fetta crumbed much finer and cooked/stirred through it — it really made the dish. Disappointing to see they’re just chucking it on top. Their sandwiches/baguettes ARE great — huge and full of delicious things. To me, the coffee there has always bee just good — nothing amazing but never bad.
Their freshly squeezed mandarin juice is also great.
Also, I can’t speak for the other skinny-jeaned hispters, but I used to go there a lot on weekdays when I was freelancing and lived down the road. It’s a lovely quiet place to get some work done.
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| January 9, 2010, 12:48 pm
Freshly squeezed mandarin juice? Wow I’ve never seen that anywhere else. Will remember to order it next time I’m there.
Jetsetting Joyce
Yeah, I’m not usually big on juice generally, but will always try some if there’s a flavour I haven’t had before — sampled both blood orange, and pomello juices recently.
It was years ago when I had the mandarin juice there, though, so I can’t guarantee they still do it, but it’s worth asking.
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| January 10, 2010, 2:38 pm
I LOVE small cafes and this one looks cozy:)
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| December 27, 2010, 11:59 am