Luxe bakery (Newtown)

By St

Just like Keeping up with the Kardashians, I'm keeping up with Boo_e's breakfast piece. So after a big night celebrating a friend's bday, Kim, Kourtney and Khloe, along with their b-boys James-Z and T-Unit needed to grab a bite at somewhere chic before heading out to the Glebe festival.

What better place than Newtown where these sisters learnt to walk down the jagged street of the King to find good food lacking at Sydney Uni. While we love Thai-La-Ong and Newtown Thai, they just didn't fit the bill for a hot and filling big breakfast. T-Unit had read all about it and driven past many times so it was time to indulge at Luxe bakery.

It's a small bakery and cafe with seating for about 30, including big communal tables. The natural light beaming from the the bakery's shop front, back door and the high ceilings add to the fuzzy-warm-sunday-morning-brekkie feeling.

Don't know what happened to James-Z. Did he not put a ring on it and was now in the dog house because I can't explain his lack of appetite this particular morning: one ham and cheese croissant. The croissant he says was fo-sizzlely good but the filling was average.

Leg ham and cheese croissant $6

We know how Beyonce got her bootylicious body so we followed suit and ordered the organic, free-range scrambled/poached eggs with choice of white, rye and soy linseed sourdough with sides of hash browns, sausage, ricotta, salsa verde (extra $3 each) and ocean trout (extra $5). Fans of smoked salmon won't be disappointed with the cured ocean trout. Beware those who have nut allergies because the sausage contains pinenuts. The hash browns got me crazy in love- crunchy and crispy with loads of yummy soft potato inside. 10x better than MaccyDs.

Poached eggs with soy linseed sourdough and salsa verde $13.50

Scrambled eggs with soy linseed sourdough, potato hash, sausage and ricotta $19.50

Scrambled eggs with soy linseed sourdough, potato hash and cured ocean trout $18.50

Breakfast is served from 8am-2pm and lunch from 11am-3pm. Being breakfast, of course someone had to order coffee but it felt a bit criminal seeing as Campos was just next door. T-Unit was happy with his flat white but Campos is still his number one. Us girls chose from their big range of fruit drinks in the fridge but were kicking ourselves after seeing another table get freshly squeezed juice.

You don't have to sit down and eat here. Many customers come here for the freshly baked goodies. We would have bought soemthing to take home as well but there would be plenty of food awaiting in Glebe.

Luxe bakery is a very trendy and friendly eatery where I have to come back and choose from their baked selections.

Backs adorned with fashion from the pages of Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Someone get me that shirt!

Wok rating /5:

Luxe bakery

195 Missenden Rd

Newtown

02 4677 3739

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Cafe Morso (Pyrmont)

By Boo_e

Daniel took me to Café Morso for my birthday breakfast. What a terrific way to start my favourite day of the year! Morsos breakfast menu offers a wide range of brekky dishes. They have some of your more traditional dishes like eggs benedict and toasted muesli with yogurt, but it’s the unique breakfast dishes they have on their menu that’s the draw card for me. Dishes like the Potato and Dill pancakes served with Gravalax smoked salmon a poached egg, watercress and lemon crème fraiche and the bacon and egg Gnocchi with truffle oil and micro herbs are what sets Café Morso apart from your other cafés. Not to mention their exceptional coffee. Now I do confess to be a little bit of a coffee snob so when I say Morsos is ranked as one of my top 3 coffee joints it means that their Macchiato (my drink of choice) is made with just the right amount of frothed milk and is at just the right temperature so that it goes down smoothly and leaves an aromatic aftertaste to be savoured down to the last drop.

The potato pancakes were light and fluffy and slightly crispy on the surface, the dill in the pancakes meld particularly well with the smoked salmon and the lemon crème fraiche is perfect for cutting through the richness of the poached egg.

I've also had the bacon and egg gnocchi here previously as well although not pictured here I can tell you that incorporating bacon bits into the potato gnocchi was a genius move. The gnocchi was surprisingly light and the poached egg on top with oozing yolk was decadent but not overly rich. The best part of this dish for me is the lightly drizzled truffle oil and the micro herbs, these ingredients turned this dish into something even more special for me.

Potato & dill pancake with Gravalax salmon and lemon creme fraiche

The toasted muesli with mixedfruit and yogurt was also very well done in terms of the balance between fruit, yogurt and muesli. Watermelon and rockmelon carefully chopped into tiny cubes are place on top of the honey drizzled yogurt brings a refreshing taste to this traditional dish.

Toasted muesli with fresh fruit and yoghurt

Morso is definitely a place worth visiting even if it’s just for the coffee. Suggestion: Ask for a seat outside as the view is great and you get a lot of sun on the deck area. Also Morsos is pooch friendly, so if you can’t bear to leave you bestie at home then take him/her with you and Morso will supply a water bowl for you there.

Gorgeous view from open dining deck

Wok rating /5:


Cafe Morso
Suite 108 Jones Bay Wharf
19-21 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont
02 9692 0111


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