The Black Sheep Espresso Baa…
This place is a little hole-in-the-wall type set up, a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it little hobbit nook, sans Saruman, Lord of Isengard, which works for me as I am not eating breakfast in the company of that nasty prick, no thank you.
You walk into this little shoe box café expecting to see myriad of little elves working away, toiling over a hot grill to get you your meal, and some how negotiating their way around a coffee machine with some kind of little step ladder arrangement so they can reach the knobs and things so you may have some coffee, too. But then when you do actually wander up to the counter there are full sized, human type characters. There was actually 5 or 6 of them, all working away in a kitchen the size of a small garden shed, or possibly a large TV cabinet and I kid you not, they were all really happy about it too. Staff were singing and being nice and just showing many tell-tale signs of being really happy about their situation.
One of those happy people took our order and then another one of them made us some coffee and I’m pretty sure another one or two of them cooked our breakfast but I didn’t really notice, all the while I was sitting down and using every ounce of my energy trying not to obviously stare in absolute awe of how acceptable it seems to be to wear budgie smugglers into and around the Coolangattata café strip…
We ordered some more coffee. They were doing a good thing with their Toby’s Estate coffee so it seemed like the common sense thing to do.
The kids AKA the pack of ravenous lions, decided they would like to share the “Board for 2” ($39) which stated in its menu description that the staff cannot tell you what exactly is on it because they don’t have that sort of time to spare.
So the “Board for 2” came out carried only by one person which came as quite the surprise as I was expecting 4 large, scantily clad men in sandles… or a goat cart at the very least. Preconceptions can truly be a bitch, right? Anyway, this thing did have everything. It was like Christmas lunch at Gina Rinehart’s pad… minus the private doctors to keep an eye out for heart attack. It was off the fricking hook displayed in wooden board form; eggs, bacon, house made sausages, lamb bacon, spicy beefy beans, corn fritters, mushrooms, roast tomato, pumpkin and beetroot, condiments and toast. It was impressive… like, Andre the Giant impressive.
I had the “Sir-Tory” ($16.5) for myself. The quirky little name they had conjured up for this dish, as with most of the other quirky little monikers they had come up with for their menu items, meant absolutely nothing to me. But that was A-OK because I love it when peeps can have a bit of a chuckle at themselves and what they’re doing… AS LONG AS THEY CAN STILL COME THROUGH WITH THE PRODUCT… which these folks truly did. Slow cooked beef cheek in beer and tomato sauce mixed with grumble beans (once again, no idea what they were on about but I was more than happy to eat them) and then served with poached eggs and chilli jam.
“My kind of breakfast” should be enough information to some that one up. The addition of “very effing happy” should leave no doubt in the minds of the more simple folk amongst us.
By the time we were leaving the happy that was oozing from this place had well an truly infected us so off we went to skip with unicorns and smile at rainbows and shit.
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15 responses to “The Black Sheep Espresso Baa, Cooly… not just a bunch of random words”
Wow – looks amazing – seriously you have a lot of really good food places near you – it’s a bit of a food desert round here……
Yep. We’re pretty lucky for that. It’s a definite for oasis out this way 🙂
Actually, there’s so much good food it’s a little hard keeping my boyish figure of yester-year 😉
Did the wee laddies manage to finish the entire board? You find some good brekky joints Food. I am snooze worthy bored of most of the offerings around us lately. They need to pick up their game and start offering a few more exciting things like this Sir-Tory!
I think you know the lads would’ve finished that and then started looked at my plate 😉
We’re pretty lucky up this way… and I’m pretty lucky I’m not a fat bastard already 🙂
Cheers Mrs Cheer
Nom nom nom is right! This looks so freakin’ delicious. I do love a cafe that puts effort into making a witty menu. I actually sat at my computer reading your entire picture of the menu which… well, considering I can’t actually order anything, says something. I’ll have to put this place on my hit list if I ever head your way. Props for their use of enamel serving ware too (we’ve had this discussion before, right?)
Yep. You guys need to get yer asses onto a plane or train or some kind of goat cart and get out this way so we can enlarge our waistlines and hurt our livers a little!!!!!
And yes, we did that enamel convo fo’ sho.
And hows the new job going PS? did that shit happen for you??
Incredible food!
They did a good job 🙂
You got me with “a large TV cabinet”.
Better than me hitting you with a large TV cabinet, I guess 🙂 🙂 🙂
Wow, looks totally great! Thanks for sharing.
Cheers. It was definitely my pleasure 🙂
I have to say, after reading this as well as others of your posts, you sure eat well!
Ha. Cheers Jeff. I try 🙂