Verb Café

Verb Café
336 Racecourse Rd, Flemington, VIC
Atomica Coffee


Opposite Social Roasting Company, in the corner, is Verb Cafe... also a second-hand book store. You won't be rushed as you sip their very decent coffee while reading the Sunday paper.Several interesting options on the menu: the classic Green eggs and ham ($10.50), the hearty Baked eggs with roma tomato salsa, goat's cheese, herbs and spinach ($10.50) and the healthy Granola with berry compote and greek style yoghurt ($7.50). Food portions are generous.

We tried the Big breakfast - parmesan pork sausage, tomatoes, grilled haloumi, wilted spinach, onion jam, bacon and fried eggs ($16.50). It was enough for a cardiac arrest... the dish probably would have been better with poached eggs. Sausages were tasteless and tough, bacon was over fried, tomatoes were even saltier than the bacon! Overall it was like those nightmare-ish plates of ingredients you could have prepared at home put together - one of the common flaws of big breakfasts. Why can't they be more like Madame SouSou?

The Breakfast Quesadilla - grilled tortilla filled with relish, cheese, bacon and a fried egg ($9.50) was slightly better. Tasty, but also full of fired ingredients. The side of potato parmesan roesti ($3) was disappointing. It was packed full of parmesan and thyme but I'm not sure why it was so hard, chewy and dry? Only the brown outsides were eaten in the end.