Axil Coffee Roasters

Last week a friend and I met for breakfast at Axil. I had been once before, but had always wanted to try more of the menu. This place is huge and industrial looking, with those funky hanging light bulbs we seem to see so often in the Melbourne cafe scene these days.

The breakfast menu offering isn't extensive, but you'll find the usual suspects- baked eggs, bircher muesli, banana bread, corn and haloumi fritters, french toast & smashed avocado. 

The waitress informed us of the specials- which included some kind of french toast, as well as a baked egg dish with mushroom ragu and taleggio. I thought I'd give the baked eggs a whirl. However, once the dish came out, I realised the waitress wrote down my order as the regular baked eggs found on the menu, not the special ones. But I'm a whimp and am not that type of person who sends food back...so I sat and ate the eggs I didn't actually order...

                                        

Spicy baked eggs w/goats cheese feta, dukkah and pepperonata sauce w/ a side of toast ($16.50)

And lemmme tell ya. They were amazing! I'm not a lover of spicy food, but this wasn't too intense and the goats cheese fetta + the eggs on toast was just a perfect combo. Thank you waitress for stuffing up my order :)

My friend ordered the corn and haloumi fritters with avocado, spinach, poached egg and salsa rosso ($17).

Corn + haloumi fritters with avocado, spinach, poached egg and salsa rosso ($17)

Yeah, you can't really see the fritters but they are nestled beneath the giant mountain of salsa. They might have gone a little OTT with the salsa, and the egg on top was a little unnecessary as it was such a filling dish- however the fritters were so tasty!

 

Soy chai latte

Sandwich cabinet

I also noticed they had a variety of little treasures at the counter. The foccacias and sandwiches sounded very exotic and gourmet (slow roasted lamb shoulder...)

Blueberry and lime macaron, please get in my belly

I was drooling over the sweets. A friend has tried the apple and rhubarb crumble tart and said it was a winner.

More sweeties. Check out the brownie. Anything that combines chocolate and peanut butter can't fail (it just can't)

Mini bacon and egg burgers! 

The also roast their own coffee and sell their own merch.

A great place that has a bit to offer any type of customer. You like eggs? They got em. You like smoked trout and scrambled egg wraps? Guess what, they have that too. All at a very good price.

Axil Coffee Roasters

322 Burwood Road, Hawthorn

Replete Providore

Before work this morning, I thought it would be a nice idea to head out for breakfast and make the most of a beautiful sunny saturday. I managed to drag my sleepy ass out of bed by 8:30, and nagged my breakfast companion to hurry up and to do the same so we could get food in our bellies before I had to go to work (yep, I'm that annoying). The spot for breakfast was a toss up between Snow Pony or Replete Providore, and as I hadn't been before, we I ended up choosing Replete Providore.

There was a nice selection of breakfast dishes to choose from, with some nice lunch options too.

I decided on the replete "florentine" ($15)- simply because I had actually never tried eggs with hollandaise before. I also liked the sound of the pea and fetta fritters that also comes with the dish.

Eggs florentine with pea and fetta fritters, spinach, poached eggs + hollandaise on english muffins.

I devoured the meal, it was so so so yummy. I also ordered a side of istra bacon, just because I'm a piglet. I think the english muffins underneath were a little unnecessary and could have just been replaced by the fritters. But still a delicious breakfast.

My tired eyed breakfast companion ordered the smashed avocado. I'd love to find out which cafe actually gave birth to the legendary smashed avocado dish, because I recon they'd be pretty shitty that almost every cafe in Melbourne has followed their lead. The huge mountain of avocado came with danish fetta, poached eggs, basil, mint, chilli + dark rye bread ($15).

Smashed avocado with danish fetta, poached egg, basil, mint, chilli + dark rye bread.

               

They also had a huge selection of sweet pastries and tarts to choose from at the counter.

Mini carrot cakes!

A very lovely breakfast cafe with plenty of dishes to choose from. I was a happy (but full) camper :)

Replete Providore

302, Barkers Road, Hawthorn