11 April 2007

Breakfast at the Flathead Cafe

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The Flathead Cafe in O’Connor has rapidly become an Inner North institution for fish and chips. Fortunately Nick The Pig had crashed on my couch the other night and with the morning he was bellyaching about how, without food, he would immediately expire. So we went looking for breakfast with some hope that All Bar Nun might be open.

In that we were disappointed, but I noticed that Flathead’s was doing business and figured they couldn’t just be doing fish and chips for breakfast. Instead we got this magnificent bastard for a mere $10:

The tomato was actually cooked! And the eggs were right (aside from a broken one which happens to the best of us. It had decent bacon, and a sausage lurked in there to surprise the unwary. The hash browns were both enourmous and delicious and it came with a plate of toast with which to conduct mopping up operations. Best of all it had plain old baked beans rounding it out.

If you’re after lightly grilled marinated mushrooms with your big breakfast then this isn’t for you. But if you want a real fry up breakfast for a very reasonable $10 then it’s highly recommended.

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canberralocal5:12 pm 25 Jun 11

Sammy said :

Pajenkas in the ANU Union offer a similar big breakfast on weekdays for about $8. Eggs, bacon, tomato, hash browns and sausage.

Err more like $12. Although it is worth it, despite the fact that portion sizes have declined this year for some reason. I still eat there though, good food and excellent service from the ladies on the counter.

Being vego, I’d be giving the bacon and sausages to my other half anyway. But a nice greasy egg on toast is nice every few weeks.

OK, scratch that last question. Just looked it up, so they don’t open until 10AM on Sundays. It goes against the early-riser in me, but I’ll accept it.

Is Flathead’s open on Sundays? Walked by this morning about 9:30AM and no one home. The Nun was open of course… but I was looking forward to grease and beans!

And even if you did drive that far, emd, you probably wouldn’t make it home again with all the greasy gunge inside you….

I’ll just stick with my dates, lamb kebab and couscous thanks.

Maybe I’ll just stay home and cook my own, in that case… I can’t drive that far on an empty stomach.

emd – northside.

Why those are the same packet hash browns that Pirate Cafe Tilleys sell as a side dish for $3.00 on their own…

So where do people go for a fry-up brekky southside?

But surely university Unions are evil and the source of everything wrong in society!

Unless they’re providing a cheap brekky, presumably.

Pajenkas in the ANU Union offer a similar big breakfast on weekdays for about $8. Eggs, bacon, tomato, hash browns and sausage.

If there were a comparable breakfast southside I would be stoked. 10 bucks for that is awesome, but not worth driving to O’Connor for 😉

Their food is great, but their workflow is sloppy and slow. Can sometimes take a while to get what you’re after. Hasn’t stopped me from going back though.

Yep thats good value we get a similar one in my local pub for about $15

Vic Bitterman7:55 pm 11 Apr 07

$10 for that? Crikey, I’m gunna drag my arse there on the weekend!!!!!

Well at least you’re still alive, NTP!

This picture hurts my diet. 🙁

You know, besidesthe grease that I desperately needed, it didn’t really do much for me (too greasy and the sangs weren’t very good) and no mushrooms (JB hates ‘shrooms so not a problem for him).

Now that’s what a breakfast should be.

Absent Diane5:00 pm 11 Apr 07

Dear Author

I would like to thank you for this post as it has been used as an appetite supressant for me all day. (apart from the hash browns which actually look quite good, so really it has been a source of confusion for my poor old body).

Kind Regards
Absent Diane of the Imminent Present
Leader and Posterboy
Eggs Are Not A Food Foundation (ENAFF)

God I’m hungry now.

Thanks for the find JB, I have been looking for somewhere to replace Fatboys back home. Looking at those hash browns, I think we have a weiner.

wow now i really want hashbrowns for dinner

I assume they keep a Packer Whacker on standby?

$10, I’m going out there one day soon, thats a good reason to wake up early.

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