I'm usually quite an early riser. 7am, 8am, usually latest 8:30am I'm out of bed. But in this foreign dimension of Glen Waverley, Saturday morning found us being awfully lazy in bed until 11:30am when we decided it was probably time to eat...something.
It's an odd time of day though, definitely too late for breakfast, a tiny bit too late for brunch and you just woke up, so it can't be lunch...can it? I was frankly half tempted to get pizza.
But thankfully Brad had better sense than I and we headed off to Kingsway and found ourselves in the adorable Coco Lounge. One of the very rare non-Asian eating spots there.
They certainly do a good job standing out from all the rice and noodles that surround them, the place just humming away with a happy charm, adorned with colourful 1940'esque posters and attended to by attentive waitresses who filled up your water glasses constantly and did lunges in between serving customers. Seriously!
I immediately got my chai. It was really quite excellent. Even though it was twice the size of Brad's latte, I'm pretty sure the bottom of my glass was visible first.
So the grand question. Breakfast or lunch?
Since we had both just gotten out of bed, we decided to stick to the breakfast menu, which they serve til 3! Hoorah! We both, as we usually do, decided we wanted eggs as well, but kept tossing up between our options. (As usual).
In the end, we decided that a bit of plotting and thievery was needed. Brad got their version of the big breakfast called the 'Starvin Marvin' and I deviously, just got two poached eggs (and some extra relish) and planned to steal things from Brad's 'Starvin Marvin'.
Phew! Just as well I did, look at that giant plate! The 'Starvin Marvin' came with two fried eggs, sausages, bacon, spinach, mushrooms, roasted tomato and tomato relish. Which was essentially everything I wanted to have with my eggs, but was too scared it would be too much!
So just getting the poached eggs worked out perfectly for me, which were beautifully cooked, I love a bleeding egg yolk! Brad's fried eggs looked great as well, with the whites cooked through but the yolk still with a bit of movement in it. I loved all the sides, the produce was fresh, wasn't too oily, but my favourite thing had to be the tomato relish. Oh the tomato relish. It was just as well I ordered an extra just for myself as it was sweet, full of flavour and chunky and went so well with the eggs. I demolished my little serving and continued stealing from Brad's portion!
After our very substantial breakfast, we ended up sitting and talking about politics and other such romantic things that couples are supposed to talk about (aha.) and ended up being in Coco Lounge for a good two hours or so. I do apologize to anyone who may have had to put up with my ranting and not so charming language that I may have used in the heat of our discussion. In this duration, the waitresses would regularly come by, top up the water with the water bottle on our table, ask if we needed anything and then leave us be for a bit longer. I have to say I felt very well looked after and I was slightly surprised that we weren't trying to be pushed out, since the place was quite full and that despite being busy, I was very comfortable just chilling out there.
I would easily come back here any day for breakfast. Or brunch/lunch/tea?
It's an odd time of day though, definitely too late for breakfast, a tiny bit too late for brunch and you just woke up, so it can't be lunch...can it? I was frankly half tempted to get pizza.
But thankfully Brad had better sense than I and we headed off to Kingsway and found ourselves in the adorable Coco Lounge. One of the very rare non-Asian eating spots there.
They certainly do a good job standing out from all the rice and noodles that surround them, the place just humming away with a happy charm, adorned with colourful 1940'esque posters and attended to by attentive waitresses who filled up your water glasses constantly and did lunges in between serving customers. Seriously!
I immediately got my chai. It was really quite excellent. Even though it was twice the size of Brad's latte, I'm pretty sure the bottom of my glass was visible first.
So the grand question. Breakfast or lunch?
Since we had both just gotten out of bed, we decided to stick to the breakfast menu, which they serve til 3! Hoorah! We both, as we usually do, decided we wanted eggs as well, but kept tossing up between our options. (As usual).
In the end, we decided that a bit of plotting and thievery was needed. Brad got their version of the big breakfast called the 'Starvin Marvin' and I deviously, just got two poached eggs (and some extra relish) and planned to steal things from Brad's 'Starvin Marvin'.
Phew! Just as well I did, look at that giant plate! The 'Starvin Marvin' came with two fried eggs, sausages, bacon, spinach, mushrooms, roasted tomato and tomato relish. Which was essentially everything I wanted to have with my eggs, but was too scared it would be too much!
So just getting the poached eggs worked out perfectly for me, which were beautifully cooked, I love a bleeding egg yolk! Brad's fried eggs looked great as well, with the whites cooked through but the yolk still with a bit of movement in it. I loved all the sides, the produce was fresh, wasn't too oily, but my favourite thing had to be the tomato relish. Oh the tomato relish. It was just as well I ordered an extra just for myself as it was sweet, full of flavour and chunky and went so well with the eggs. I demolished my little serving and continued stealing from Brad's portion!
After our very substantial breakfast, we ended up sitting and talking about politics and other such romantic things that couples are supposed to talk about (aha.) and ended up being in Coco Lounge for a good two hours or so. I do apologize to anyone who may have had to put up with my ranting and not so charming language that I may have used in the heat of our discussion. In this duration, the waitresses would regularly come by, top up the water with the water bottle on our table, ask if we needed anything and then leave us be for a bit longer. I have to say I felt very well looked after and I was slightly surprised that we weren't trying to be pushed out, since the place was quite full and that despite being busy, I was very comfortable just chilling out there.
I would easily come back here any day for breakfast. Or brunch/lunch/tea?
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Cute spot! Although in my opinion it is never too late to have breakfast. I love breakfast for dinner nights!
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