St. Ali is incredibly popular with the South Melbourne breakfast crowd, and if you aren't a regular patron wait times on a Saturday morning can tip past the almost-bearable fifteen minutes. But, it's all worth the wait for their award-winning coffee. And the "Regina Fungi" - slow-baked swiss brown mushrooms, toasted fetta and poached eggs with balsamic reduction, is just to die for.
The laneway leading towards the cafe is quintessentially Melbourne: mix in an artesianal workshop with some graffiti-artwork and we are good to go.
St. Ali
12/18 Yarra Pl
South Melbourne, 3205
(03) 9686 2990
Update: A reader has pointed out that there is now a St. Ali in London that I could have visited the next day as a comparison! Has anyone been? I'd love to hear whether it retains the same feel as the Melbourne version.
St. Ali London
27 Clerkenwell Road
EC1M 5RN
*I'm currently on holiday in Devon, which is in the south-west of England. More on that later.
Update: A reader has pointed out that there is now a St. Ali in London that I could have visited the next day as a comparison! Has anyone been? I'd love to hear whether it retains the same feel as the Melbourne version.
St. Ali London
27 Clerkenwell Road
EC1M 5RN
*I'm currently on holiday in Devon, which is in the south-west of England. More on that later.
Strange choice for a last minute breakfast in Melbourne given that there is now a St Ali in London...http://stali.co.uk/uk/
ReplyDelete@Strange Choice - you are right, and my housemate did tell me that as we were eating our breakfasts! Unfortunately I didn't spend enough time in London to do a comparison - have you been?
ReplyDeleteI wish I could say all I know about St Ali...
ReplyDeleteBut it's better if I keep my little mouth shut.
Sigh.
The ally way it cool!
xox
I meant IS haahahahahaa
ReplyDelete@Blithely Unaware - Ooh, you've got me intrigued now!! :-)
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