Tag: Brisbane

Brunch at Vulture Street Espresso

cappuccino in a black cup and saucer with a spoon on a wooden table
Skim cappuccino, $4.50.

What a whirlwind! Just spend Thursday to Monday up in Magan-djin/Brisbane for the People Against Poverty summit that I helped organise! I’ll post a recap of the event sometime this week (including my presentation which I’ll hopefully get the audio of soon and plan to do an online version of when we all have spoons again), but I’m excited to do a food blogging post for the brekkie the interstate folk had before flying out on Monday at Vulture Street Espresso in the West End.

We were treating ourselves after a weekend, week, and MONTHS of hard work pulling this together, spending our conference allowances on a great feed before returning to the reality of our sub-poverty welfare payments, job seeking responsibilities and, appointments and caring roles. It was a good chance to finally relax a little and eat slowly!

The weather was a little damp all weekend, which threw some plans out, but VSE has a back section that feels open even though it’s nicely sheltered. Lots of plants and wood! I nabbed the large table for what ended up being 10 of us.

They serve breakfast all day, and I was filled in by one of the former Brisbane residents that former lord mayor and brief premier Campbell Newman was one of the reasons cafe’s opened so early every day in Brissie, with the huge spend on bike lanes when he was (a Lycra-clad-cycling-) mayor who needed to access morning lattes with the gang.

puree avocado and creamed feta and almonds on two slices of seeded sourdough on a round bluegreen plate
Iconic Aussie Smashed Avocado – $19.50.

Many of the meals came with a poached egg, but as I don’t eat that I got my “Iconic Aussie Smashed Avocado” without the egg. There was lemon through the avo, the feta was oddly creamed and squirted but it was tasty as 🙂

Vietnamese omelet with rice and lemon on a blue plate
Vietnamese Omelette – $18.90

The Vietnamese Omeleltte was intriguing and smelled delicious – filled with bean sprouts, pork mince, onion, cucumber, carrots, capsicum, spring onion, mint and coriander, the fish sauce was noticeable and served with shallots and rice.

bacon, egg, cheese and avocado, tomato relish milk bun
Aussie Bacon, egg, and avocado roll – $13.50.
a stack of fritters with egg and bacon and lettuce
West end vegetable fritters – $18.90. With a side of bacon – $8.
two bices of French toast with bacon, syrup and fruit on a white plate
Creme Brul̩ French Toast Р$18.90.
scrambled eggs with sourdough toast, bacon and relish
Free range eggs on toast – $10.
eggs with holondaise sauce, bacon shallots and spinach
Bao Benedict – $21.
Brissie Hash Cakes – $21.

Vulture Street Espresso was recommended by a gluten free local who came along and most meals had vegetarian and gluten free options, and a great coffee and drinks selection. They also let us split the bill and individually pay as we each needed to leave, I bought some espresso beans to try at home, which were a good start to today!

1/85 Vulture St West End QLD 4101

(07) 3844 3208