This was our first breakfast outing in eleven months, so we were pretty excited to be eating bacon and eggs again. Deevine has lots of polished concrete and glass, so it's fairly noisy. We could hear all the conversations around us, so thanks to this breakfast I know a lot more about professional gambling and the West Coast Eagles football club than I really need to know.
I had bacon and fried eggs and camomile tea. He had bacon and fried eggs with mushrooms and a long macchiatto. The three year old had bacon and fried eggs. The baby had a breastfeed and fell asleep in the sling.
The service was good, although I noticed that the people at the table next to ours had some issues with the staff getting their orders wrong. The problems were fixed immediately though. My eggs were good, just the right amount of runniness in the yolk. The bacon was good too. The tea came in a pot (good work), but still was from a teabag (boo hiss. Come on, I can manage real tea at home with two kids and no kitchen - we're renovating - why can't a cafe manage it?). His eggs were overcooked and his coffee was tepid at best. The toast looked good, big thick slices of sourdough, and mine was great, but his wasn't really toasted at all, it was more bread than toast. Clearly a kitchen where being consistent with food quality isn't a focus. Or maybe they were too busy? Who knows. Either way, the outing was a success more because of the novelty of eating out after a long hiatus rather than the quality of the food.
Would we go there again? Probably, it wasn't a disaster, but it wasn't really anything to get excited about either.
Points for good bread choice for the toast. Points off for cold coffee, bag tea and inconsistent food quality.
Score 2.5 eggs (out of a possible five). Hey, how do you get half an egg?
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