Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Top Paddock, Richmond, Melbourne

Melbourne, Top Paddock, coffee

At the time when I was "researching" breakfast in Melbourne, Top Paddock invariably came out in one result or another. So I thought why not breakfast at Top Paddock (658 Church Street, Richmond, Melbourne, tel : +61 3 9429 4332) to start the day. 

If I had to describe the place, it's a hipster magnet - not unlike countless cafes in the city and also other cities. While these guys might have been one of the fore runners of cafe-bar/communal table for social brunch/breakfast type of place with possibly enough gravitas for name dropping, it has also occured to me that they have likely remained the mirror images to the clones that have spawned off themselves.

Food wasn't bad though. We ordered a bunch of items to share.

Melbourne, Top Paddock, blueberry pancake ricotta

We had a blueberry pancake with ricotta. As much as it looked the part, it was not a salad. In fact, underneath the pretty shrubbery was pancake enough to feed two. Or even three. Comfortably. Which made its price tag of $23 look pretty reasonable if one had the sharing planned out.

Melbourne, Top Paddock, bacon egg roll

There was a bacon and egg roll with cheddar and barbecue sauce. Solid and dependable greasy salty food group of carbs, protein and fat. Pretty big portions too.

Melbourne, Top Paddock, brisket sandwich

Their 14 hour smoked O'Connor brisket was tender, fatty and flavourful. It was also a pretty sizeable portion. A much larger slab of brisket at 80% of the cost of what Decker Barbecue was charging.

Melbourne, Top Paddock, eggs asparagus saltbush

That's eggs with asparagus with fried saltbush on toast. The menu mentioned the inclusion of Mountain Man washed rind cheese which was suppose to be a little pungent and complex cheese. Apparently also not good enough to register as a flavour component compared to the fried saltbush.

Melbourne, Top Paddock

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