Café Denaro

Café Denaro
104 Fletcher St, Essendon, VIC
Di Bella Coffee


Coffee could be better but the food was good, and service efficient.

Breakfast Stack ($13.90) - homemade hash brown (read: roesti), sauté baby spinach, poached egg, smoked salmon, avocado, wild rocket & hollandaise. The hash brown was crisp and not too salty - a rarity! The egg was perfectly done and the salmon fresh (but not enough).
Impressed, we ordered the French Toast with caramelised banana & bacon ($13.90) which was pretty good too. The menu has lots of variety with dishes like Ricotta Pancakes with mixed berry compote ($10.50) that caught our fancy so we wanted to go back and try to push this up to 4 beans. Unfortunately, the 2nd trip confirmed 3 beans.

The Denaro Special ($14.90) - 2 poached eggs on an english muffin, ham, baby spinach, melted cheese topped with Napoli, hollandaise & fresh herbs was pretty bad due to 1 main ingredient – the hollandaise. It was a sour lump of yellow jello which tasted so foul we had to scrap it off to save the rest of the food which was decent.
The Big One ($14.90) - Bacon, sausages, hash brown, baked beans (we asked for it to be put separately), poached eggs & tomato was nothing to shout about either.