Mellow Beans

Google found this place for me so I'm telling the googleplex about it. Staying at a nearby hotel, this was an obvious choice for someone easily bored by hotel buffet breakfasts. The menu is pleasingly eclectic; you'll find variants of the brunch staples you know and love but with a few creative twists and turns that I really enjoy. In a very crowded marketplace, I for one love a venue that dares to depart from the road most-travelled. My choice was the house-branded Mellow Brekky with an espresso (short black coffee). The plate was more abundant than I should have eaten but I did anyway because everything on it was wonderfully delicious. At the current asking price of $22.80, I consider it astounding value. The coffee - and let's be honest, there's nowhere to hide in a short black, was refreshingly pleasing; a mellow, medium roast taste with enough complexity to interest me, clearly curated very well on the grind and pour side if things. Were I to single out a negative, on my plate I'd have loved it if a little more water had been squeezed out of the grated potato before it was turned into the house-hash-brown, but you know, maybe that's just me being a pedant or this was not the usual standard. Either way, kudos for making them rather than buying in some vile facsimile of the awful thing a certain Scottish-named franchise pass off as a hash brown. In short, if you are looking for a good value, high food quality brekky or brunch, with some sould of it's own and imagination on the menu, I commend this place. Of course I'm all about the plate but worth mentioning it's spacious interior and abundant décor. They could probably cram another 20 tables in this space a-la those miserable fit-outs that afford you the enjoyment of every word the next 3 tables utter. Me, I prefer the option Mellow Beans have taken.

RETURNED FOR ANOTHER BREAKFAST
Back at Mellow Beans a few weeks later, this time with my wife. Hera field mushroom omelet was amazing and abundant as was my homemade baked beans. Everything I thought after my initial visit was affirmed second time around.