Food For Thought (Queen Street)

Randomly picked this after Shape Run and what an apt place because at 9:30am after a 5km run, what better than to stuff our faces with hearty breakfast-y stuff :)

Was surprised to see that at about 915am, there were people already queuing outside waiting for it to open. And I have to admit I didnt know about the social enterprise part of this place then (but I do now!) and was intrigued by the little items on sale while waiting for the food.

Full works ($18) - scrambled eggs, bacon, garlic mushrooms, chunky chicken sausage, hash brown, toasted brioche with thyme tomato salad - decided to be greedy and reward myself after the run, which on hindsight probably meant overcompensating the calories. It was a huge portion - and everything was good! The only struggle was to eat most of everything before it got cold, and of course that was not possible. Worth mentioning are the garlic mushrooms which came sauteed very nicely and the little balls of hash brown - cute! Banana Walnut pancake ($10.80) - Delicious~ We realized why this took the longest to come - the banana and walnuts are actually blended into the batter which makes it so dense but so tasty. A tedious way of doing it sure, but it won me over.

Coffee ($4) - Nice and strong, served with a dense chocolate cookie.

Service was okay with a young team, and the place was not that big to begin with so all is good. The full works is not exactly cheap but its a good choice to spoil yourself every now and then :)