where to get an english breakfast in sydney
Feb 17th 2016, 10:55 am
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Re: where to get an english breakfast in sydney
Dislike canned beetroot, enjoy fresh cooked and baked beetroot, especially curried.
Which brings me around to my evil vegetable.... Cauliflower, which I thought I would hate forever... until I had that fried or baked, which was my first vegetable epiphany.
Which brings me around to my evil vegetable.... Cauliflower, which I thought I would hate forever... until I had that fried or baked, which was my first vegetable epiphany.
Feb 21st 2016, 6:21 am
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Re: where to get an english breakfast in sydney
And I love beetroot, as long as it has been nowhere near vinegar. One of the best things about this country!
Feb 22nd 2016, 3:16 am
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You need a trip to Lucky Penny in Chapel Street then Ozzie. I always thought the only acceptable way to eat cauliflower was smothered in cheese sauce, then I tried their "fried cauliflower with hummus, cashew cream, a poached egg and charred bread". Fabulous.
And I love beetroot, as long as it has been nowhere near vinegar. One of the best things about this country!
And I love beetroot, as long as it has been nowhere near vinegar. One of the best things about this country!
Had a couple of Beetroot Curries recently and they are really moreish...
Feb 22nd 2016, 10:35 am
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Re: where to get an english breakfast in sydney
. So it must be an Australasian thing. Whoever did it first deserves a hard slap, it's just wrong 
Feb 25th 2016, 7:25 pm
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Thats what put me off beetroot, they have it with everything, not even an option its just there, slapped on your plate whether you want it or not 
I even had salads where there was no meat or cheese, just shredded green stuff and then beetroot instead of anything useful!
I even had salads where there was no meat or cheese, just shredded green stuff and then beetroot instead of anything useful!
Feb 25th 2016, 8:41 pm
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Re: where to get an english breakfast in sydney
The baked beans are the ones that got me going (whoops)..... I honestly dont reckon you can get them in Cafe/Restaurants/pubs around Melbournes inner north.... unless they are home made in house ones, which are quite different and probably not something you would want with a English Brekky
Turns out of all the places that does something similar to a full English breakfast.... Is the pub up the road......It's a pokies place so not high on the eating out circuit at all.... I guess people have to have something substantial after staring at a whirling pokie machine in the wee small hours.
If you look on the Menu....you can get Saganaki with it.... Even the average places cater for the locals.... Still no baked beans though.
https://www.zomato.com/melbourne/dru...rg/menu#tabtop
Turns out of all the places that does something similar to a full English breakfast.... Is the pub up the road......It's a pokies place so not high on the eating out circuit at all.... I guess people have to have something substantial after staring at a whirling pokie machine in the wee small hours.
If you look on the Menu....you can get Saganaki with it.... Even the average places cater for the locals.... Still no baked beans though.
https://www.zomato.com/melbourne/dru...rg/menu#tabtop
Mar 4th 2016, 10:24 pm
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Re: where to get an english breakfast in sydney
There used to be a cafe on the top floor of the Menzies Arcade at Wynyard that did a proper full English as you describe - the crucial bit being baked beans.
I haven't been there for over 2 years though, so it may well have changed now. But it served a breakfast exactly as you describe!
Beans and crispy bacon are something of a rarity in Sydney cafe venues unfortunately. There is a cafe in Ivy Lane, Darlington, called 28 Acres that does a full Irish breakfast - bacon, egg, sausage, beans, spuds, black pudding and soda bread - this place really knows how to cook bacon and make it nice and crispy. Worth a visit in pursuit of your perfect breakfast.
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I haven't been there for over 2 years though, so it may well have changed now. But it served a breakfast exactly as you describe!
Beans and crispy bacon are something of a rarity in Sydney cafe venues unfortunately. There is a cafe in Ivy Lane, Darlington, called 28 Acres that does a full Irish breakfast - bacon, egg, sausage, beans, spuds, black pudding and soda bread - this place really knows how to cook bacon and make it nice and crispy. Worth a visit in pursuit of your perfect breakfast.
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Apr 3rd 2016, 10:53 am
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Re: where to get an english breakfast in sydney
Could you update us on your search please? I have had many sleepless nights over this. Seriously though, it will help bring closure to this post.
Apr 4th 2016, 7:07 am
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Re: where to get an english breakfast in sydney
Gravy on fish!!
Now curry sauce on fish is a proper northern delicacy. So is chips and gravy, but never come across fish with gravy before.
Here in the south, chippy food is not the same. But we have recently found a mobile chippy run by a Mancunian, he is in the area every Wednesday and he does proper chippy chips and curry sauce but he has obviously decided gravy would be a step too far.
To the original question, I don't recall having any difficulty finding places that did a full English breakfast. Obviously not of the same quality, horrible sausages and all that, but everywhere that does breakfast did the typical English fare.
Now curry sauce on fish is a proper northern delicacy. So is chips and gravy, but never come across fish with gravy before.
Here in the south, chippy food is not the same. But we have recently found a mobile chippy run by a Mancunian, he is in the area every Wednesday and he does proper chippy chips and curry sauce but he has obviously decided gravy would be a step too far.
To the original question, I don't recall having any difficulty finding places that did a full English breakfast. Obviously not of the same quality, horrible sausages and all that, but everywhere that does breakfast did the typical English fare.
My OH's family always use to do the "Friday Night Chippy Meal" (I had never come across that even though I am also from the North of England) but the other day my OH decided he would like a "chippy tea"(he had been working over seas for quite a while and had a craving for chips etc) he went to the local shop and bought Fish and Chips with mushy peas and Gravy!!!! it amazed our two sons who were brought up in Aus as they just could not get the gravy on the meal but they tried it and .....loved it lol. I remember not long after we arrived in Aus I went to a local shopping centre with a food court, it was early morning and a few families were eating pies with tons of tomato sauce on the pies I thought what a strange combination but I go along with "whatever floats your boat" ....our youngest lol loves that combination and if he does have a pie that's how he still eats it.
Good luck and I hope you find out. 
