Servery and Spoon

Happy Thursday nomsters!

It's nearly the end of the week and the weekend is looming ever so close! Having woken up super early this morning, the boy and I decided to go to Servery and Spoon for breakfast. It's just down the road from us so it's easy to get to for a nice feed.

I really love the decor in the restaurant. The tables are quirky and the decorations are interesting. For example, the birdcage lightshade. I quickly decided on the Crispy dukkah eggs with avocado, feta cheese and spinach on sourdough and Brad decided to get the Slow roasted tomatoes with red onions, herb salad, goats cheese on sourdough.

Very cute birdcage lampshade

 My standard order of coffee is a strong skinny latte. I know the skinny milk doesn't really make much of a difference but it makes me feel a bit better. It was not a bad coffee but I've had better. It was a little bit weak for my liking, however, Brad's long black was fairly decent but it got better at the end.

Not the best coffee I've ever had but still fairly good

The food is fairly pricey ranging from $8 for plain eggs on toast to $19.50 for a polenta crusted calamari salad. My dish was $15.50 and Brad's was $9.50 and coffees are around the $4 mark. It's not really somewhere you would go all the time unless you're rolling in the dough.

Random menu shot

My eggs. My glorious eggs. I really love the dukkah coat around the eggs, it really gives a whole different texture to the poached gooey-ness you usually get with eggs cooked this way. The avocado and the the spinach had a lovely flavour while the feta cheese had a nice salty bite. The sourdough was well toasted to overcome the runny yolk and every element worked well together.

Crispy dukkah eggs

Me: "Can you describe your meal to me, Brad?"
Brad: "Delicious."

Awesome.
Thanks for that babe.
According to the man of many words, the tomatoes were really soft and tangy because of how they were slow roasted. The soused onions and the goats cheese worked well together because of the sweet and sour flavours and eating the dish was a pleasure to the taste buds.

Slow roasted tomatoes

Servery and Spoon

137 Waverley Road
Malvern East   3145
(03) 9571 7495

Taste: 8/10
Price: 5/10 (Quite expensive, really only a once in a while treat)
Location/Ambience: 8/10 (Easy to get to with the tram stop right outside and nice decor)
Final Verdict: 7/10

Eggplant Parmagiana

Happy New Year Nomsters!!

How fast has time flown that it has been nearly two months since my last post? I blame my being uber busy with uni and then flying off to Malaysia for three weeks.
Fret not as I have spent a lot of time eating (my waist line attests to that) so I have a lot of future blog posts planned.

One of my new year resolutions is to eat a bit more healthy. Most of you won't know that I have an irrational fear of vegetables entering my mouth and belly. I am really picky of the kinds of vegetables I eat and how they are cooked and I always have been.

The first meal that I cooked when I got home was eggplant parmagiana. I got this idea from my housemate who is vegetarian and since I had two eggplants that I had purchased on my mission to be healthy, I thought, why the heck not?

Double decker eggplant parmas

Basically, I just made this up as I went along. 

Step 1: Slice and crumb your eggplant.

Step 2: Fry them until golden brown

Step 3: Make your napoli sauce to go on top of the parmas

Step 4: Stack your eggplants however you like. You can put other things in between the layers, I just put more sauce because I had heaps. Top it off with some mushrooms and cheese.

Step 5: Put it in the oven just long enough for the cheese to melt and then voila!

It was a pretty delicious meal. I'm kidding myself to say it's the healthiest meal I could have made with an eggplant, but hey, it's a start. 

Let me know if you try it and your results.

Peace, love and nomnoms,

Jo