Aubergine serves reliably top notch coffee & breaky so when Mike & I first discovered it a couple of years ago, it quickly became a favourite. After several visits we decided that it was just too child-friendly – by 8:30am it is full of young families which is all very nice & it’s great that there are quality places that welcome this demographic, one day I’m sure we’ll be very grateful. But we’re not there yet & as parents – sometimes complete strangers – often tell us, make the most of the DINK time! So when we spontaneously woke up on a Sunday with the sparrows (I think we had breakfast excitement – a condition from which we often suffer), we seized the opportunity to have breaky at Aubergine sans screaming kiddies.
It was bliss. There were only a few other people there, we had our pick of the papers & the natural light at that time of the morning was beautiful. The coffee was as good as ever.
I don’t think the menu has changed since we last visited, which was probably almost a year ago. No complaints about that from us.
Mike had the beans in toast. The beans are served in a fresh, toasted bun with bacon, wilted spinach & a perfectly poached egg.
I don’t think I have ever gone past the bircher muesli with vanilla yoghurt & rhubarb compote. It’s one of my favourite bircher muesli breakies in Perth & given how long it had been since I’d last had it, I wasn’t about to branch out on this occasion.
I love the doggy photo wall. In addition to being child-friendly, Aubergine is also very dog-friendly. There’s always at least a couple leashed to poles or tables out the front & water is provided. You’d have to be a pretty pampered pooch to successfully secure tidbits since the food is so delicious.
Aubergine Gourmet Foods
231 South Terrace, South Fremantle.
Open from 6:30am to 3pm Monday to Friday, 6:30am to 4pm Saturday & Sunday.
(t) 9335 2115