With the prospect of "Pub Watch" reviews short in supply back in NZ, I'm starting a new series on the superb cafes around Ponsonby - all within walking distance of our place.
The first entry suitable goes to the Metro 2007 Best Cafe winner, Richmond Rd Cafe. From their October edition:"Cafe is a study in contemporary urban chic, with sharply modernist décor, attentive service, lots of magazines (all of them glossy), a big balcony and a leafy, picture-window outlook. The food and coffee are superb. With close-packed tables and all that über-cool."
And it certainly lived up to its reputation, being one of the best cafe brunches we have ever had. The flat whites were strong and delicious and it too some restraint to order another straight after the last gulp. Anna ordered the bianci di spagna beans, with chorizo on sour dough, and I the breakfast grill, which came with no less than 2 poached eggs on toast, 2 rashers of bacon, 5 mushrooms, 6 tomatoes, a kumara rosti and 2 large pieces of the most delicious black pudding I've tasted (Jabs - this was up there with the black pudding at Gleneagles). In fact, all the servings we saw come out were nice and large, something that can be of a rare quality at many cafes.
It was so good, it is going to be difficult to continue this series as we will want go back there each time!
2 comments:
A strong flat white with a side dish of middle-NZ middle-aged muffin. Lovely.
There's only one place in Wellington that makes a better flat white than Fritha. It's at the bottom of the Taerrace. Nothing but a coffee machine, a roaster and eft-pos. They don't do food and you don't sit in. It's quite sublime. Don't even know it's name - I just call it "the good coffee at the bottom of The Terrace". If it's flat white was a beer, it'd be Orkney Dark Island.
Been there done it. Rated it. Black pudding, good. Red pepper and tomato soup, good. Moa beer, good too. Everyone seemed happy.
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