essjayeats » Seven Seeds http://www.essjay.com.au In Melbourne, a city full of food and obsessed by coffee, I cook, I eat, I share the good news and the bad. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:41:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Coffee in the time of heat (or Seven Seeds Part 3) http://www.essjay.com.au/2009/11/15/coffee-in-the-time-of-heat-or-seven-seeds-part-3/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.essjay.com.au/2009/11/15/coffee-in-the-time-of-heat-or-seven-seeds-part-3/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:30:28 +0000 admin http://www.essjay.com.au/2009/11/15/coffee-in-the-time-of-heat-or-seven-seeds-part-3/ On my way to the Vic Markets this morning I was in dire need of a coffee. This hot weather has made it hard for me to keep my caffeine intake at the required level. Yesterday I grabbed an affogato from Cavallini on Queens Parade. I was too late for a “Toby Coffee”, but I figured it wouldn’t really matter as it would be splashed over their good vanilla icecream. It didn’t, it was lovely and it did the job.

I’ll even admit that over the past week, as we have welcomed Spring (goddammit!) with 6 or so days at or over 30 degrees C, I have been craving an Espresso Frappacino from Starbucks. But not enough to walk to one of the two surviving stores on Swanston Street to indulge. Moccona have released a new range of little or no milk cold coffees in a bottle, but I haven’t seen them close to work as yet. What do you do for a caffeine hit in the hot weather? I can’t deal with the usual iced coffee we Aussies get – too milky, not enough caffeine. I’ll have a lovely Liaison coffee in the morning, but what to do for my mid-morning hit? at 30+ degrees?

So … that’s the long story, I was looking for a decent coffee this morning to make up for it. I detoured to Seven Seeds to buy one, and thought I would have some breakfast as well.

I grab a spot on the communal table and check out the menu:-

  • Bircher Muesli? nope. C’mon it’s Sunday!
  • French Toast with banana, butterscotch sauce and peanut brittle? Sounds lovely but .. it’s breakfast! Even I can’t stomach anything that sweet for breakfast
  • Pastries? ho hum
  • Fruit Toast (ho-er hum .. ho-ho hum? Greater Hum)
  • Sour Dough bread served with bits…salmon? don’t eat it; hummous tomato, olive oil and dukkah? sounds like lunch; African nutella and molasses, sounds like a diabetic coma
  • Toasties – already written about them; not my idea of nice, way too much bread

No-one has come to take my order yet – I’m still not even sure after 5 or 6 visits if they do – no one has ever approached me before I’ve walked up to the counter to order. Can someone tell me if they do table service?

I approach the counter and order two lattes to take away – both for me as they only have a regular size.

*sigh*

The coffee is really lovely, deep and rich and satisfying, but the food? I just don’t get it. What am i missing out on? Dench bread is OK – but it is my local so it’s not “exotic” for me. But the slices are way too thick in my opinion and I just don’t want anything that carbo loaded ever really.

So tell me what I’m missing….


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