Dining Out - Naked Brew

Naked Brew

^{The interior of the coffee shop, with all the tables to the left and right of the door hidden from view}

While I'm doing the games from the last of the monthly events I attended before the venue changed, I might as well cover the food I had before gaming.

I'd spotted this little corner coffee shop at a previous games day, when I'd already grabbed food from the nearby Bitton Gourmet (which I wrote about quite a while ago it seems. Might be time to go back again...) and decided that I'd have to try them at some point in the future.

Having gotten up late and skipped my breakfast before a long day of gaming (a group of around 30 or more of us would gather for up to 8 hours of board gaming), I decided that a breakfast style burger would be the best bet.

^{Yup, really looks like breakfast to me!}

I ordered their 'Crispy Bacon and Egg Roll', claiming that it contained creamy scrambled egg and tomato relish (though not claiming anything about the bacon in the description line...).

Having arrived at the cafe after 12:30, and naturally finding it packed with other people enjoying their meals, I had decided on take away (hence the packaging in the photo above) and headed to the nearby park that was between me and my destination.

^{There's a crowd of people in the distant right section of the park where I was going to sit, using the table and having a party of some sort, but now I'm not facing the sun either, which was good}

For me, in a roll or burger, I don't really like my bacon too crispy, and this was just a little bit too crispy, breaking apart rather than having teeth go through it, so instead of the mess you get when it's too chewy, you get exploded bacon everywhere kind of mess. It was still tasty bacon, because bacon, but could have been better by being less fragile. The 'creamy scrambled egg' was a different way of doing the egg part of a bacon and egg roll for me, and it works pretty well, but it really wasn't the textures I was after. I'm also not much of a fan of scrambled egg, and while this was quite a good scramble, it was still scrambled egg.

The tomato relish though was enough to make this quite a good meal, coming through and saving the day. It combined with the egg really well, and had a really nice flavour to it. It also saved some of the exploding bacon from escaping as it stuck to the roll with relish.

^{I was also messing around with panorama shots, and think I did an ok job of getting my view of the park in this one}

I'd definitely go back and try some of the other things on the menu, but probably wouldn't have their egg and bacon roll again, even at $8, which seems a pretty reasonable price for what it was.

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