Julio

Julio
171 Miller Street, Fitzroy North, VIC
Coffee Supreme Fairtrade


On a residential street corner opposite Merri Creek Primary School, there's a café famous for its bomboline-style doughnuts… there weren't any on the day we visited, despite it being a weekend =(

We sat at the high communal table, on wooden stools carved with a "J", half reading the papers with excellent coffees in hand, half people watching. Lots of families, and a huge crowd of people entered just after us holding floor plans and other evidence that they just came from an inspection/auction down the road. Better get our order in!

There's Romeo & Juliet - white cheese & quince paste on sourdough ($8.50), Spanish style omelettes ($12.50), Turkish breakfast plates ($9.80-$14.60), Baked organic eggs ($14) and a range of sandwiches ($7.80-$10.50). Both orders turned out to be from their specials. Firstly, French toast with apple, whipped cream and maple syrup. One of the worst French toasts ever. The taste was as unappealing as the look (like a layer of egg stuck onto bread by frying), except think stale and soggy bread, hard apples, cheap maple syrup and cream where the only taste was from the cinammon sprinkled on top.

The other dish, Scrambled organic eggs with Tom Cooper smoked salmon and roast tomatoes ($15) was a totally different story. Smooth scrambles, sweet tomatoes, fresh salmon and excellent sourdough made me wonder how could a cafe serve the 2 extremes?