In 2010 it was What About Food; in 2011, 330 Briks. Now in 2012, 330 Cardigan St is playing host to Le Miel cafe. Their signage is minimal and there's no menu on display, but we've been keeping a sly eye on renovations and dropped in for breakfast during their opening week.
This is your pretty basic breakfast menu: toast, muesli, eggs with toast and extras, hotcakes. Vegans might be able to build something up from the toast and extras, and nothing looks gluten-free. Pesky-tarians, proceed with caution!
Michael was always going to order their bigger vegetarian plate - poached eggs with feta, baked beans, avocado and tomato relish ($16.50). He liked it all a lot, only wishing for a second piece of toast to scoop up all the mushy goodness.
I tried the ricotta hotcake with poached seasonal fruits, orange syrup, candied pistachios and white chocolate mascarpone ($14.50). The mascarpone didn't make much of an impression on me - the almost-but-not-quite-burnt caramel syrup and dense hotcake dominated this dish. They really took over my stomach too: after polishing this off around 9:15am I didn't even think about lunch until 3pm.
La Miel have started out with a short-ish menu and are executing it well. I'd like to stop by again for lunch and find out what else they can do.
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Le Miel
330 Cardigan St, Carlton
9043 9767
veg breakfasts $6-16.50
www.lemiel.com.au
Accessibility: There is a single step on entry and tables are well spaced. There's table service but bills are paid at a low-ish counter.
you'd think that cafe would be in a good location for students/academics but maybe it is too far from campus and not close enough to lygon st! - stiff competition around there anyway! I hope they do well but would like to see a little more interest in the menu as a pesky-tarian
ReplyDeleteYes, it should be a great location but just doesn't quite seem to have worked out for anyone. I wonder if something a bit cheaper would lure the students in?
DeleteI had lunch there today - very good food but average coffee. It has potential.
ReplyDeleteThanks, fitzroyalty - I agree that it has potential, I hope they have the opportunity to build up an exciting menu rather than meeting the same fate as their predecessors.
DeleteThe problem is that there are good and cheap places on campus or on Grattan street that we tend to gravitate to (or settle for). Sometimes we even walk to Lygon Street! But this is kind of on the way to and home from for it when we're going past. That's me anyway! It looks good though. So I might get unlazy uni so heaps of us probably just aren't ready when we are heading past it and go there one lunchtime instead :-)
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