Birdman Eating

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3
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238 Gertrude St
FITZROY, VIC, 3065
local (03) 9416 4... local (03) 9416 4747
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This little European style café on Gertrude Street is one of Fitzroy’s hidden treasures. Serving an amazing breakfast menu with a solid range of lunch and dinner options, Birdman Eating is also well known for its wide range of gourmet teas served in gorgeous tea pots and evening tapas menu.

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Tilley 16 reviews
really amazing flavour combinations, totally original and always absolutely delish! great coffee and a huge range of interesting other drinks to try (not the same old cafe fare). inspiring!!
7 months ago
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Local Star 14 reviews
Adventurous menu, great food, and service levels higher than the guy who owns the record store next door!! I'll be back..
8 months ago via TrueLocal for iPhone
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Dr Downey 2 reviews
The best coffee in all of Collingwood, and service with a smile.
1 year ago
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Opening Hours
Services

Monday:

7:00 AM-10:30 PM
Tuesday:

7:00 AM-10:30 PM
Wednesday:

7:00 AM-10:30 PM
Thursday:

7:00 AM-10:30 PM
Friday:

7:00 AM-10:30 PM
Saturday:

8:00 AM-10:30 PM
Sunday:

8:00 AM-10:30 PM

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Birdman Eating

Matt Preston, Reviewer

Monday, June 25, 2007

What a fine breakfast menu it is here in this fearsomely sleek little box of a room with its timber floor.

Greediness has its own intellectual rewards as I discovered over a three-course breakfast the other day. (Is there any other kind I hear the trenchermen and hobbits among you cry?) The conumdrum was this. At breakfast what should come first? The savoury or the sweet? Now at dinner or lunch it's traditional to end the meal with dessert but at the start of the day do the rules change? Should I have my Birdman granola with berry fool before the braised beans on toast? Or the other way round? And where to place the toast? Should I spread it with raspberry jam or vegemite? Or both, as is my want if the toast's a little burnt. Not questions that arise if you start the day with a bowl of apple slices and a 10-kilometre run. But then that's probably because I would have passed out after 400 metres. Without being greedy I would never have realised that, obviously, cereal should come first and that its sweetness isn't really a factor. The grains themselves are by their very nature sa...
Source: The Age

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