Is this Brisbane’s biggest breakfast?
From bacon, chorizo and fried eggs to mini acai bowls and waffles, this could be the biggest breakfast in Brisbane. But there’ll be a mountain of dishes to do if you forget your wallet.
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There’s something inexplicably impressive about serving food as a tower.
Perhaps it’s the association with high teas and the image conjured up of the Queen scoffing down scones as her corgis watch on. Or maybe it’s the strange biological association of height with strength and power.
Whatever it is, the most basic of breakfast fare becomes physically and metaphorically elevated at Little Dreamer Café, in Calamvale, in Brisbane’s south, when it arrives in one of their signature two-tiered turrets.
For $59, diners will be reaching to undo the buttons on their pants as they feast on bacon, chorizo, fried eggs, haloumi, hash browns, mushrooms, avocado, sweet potato fries, salad, mini acai bowls, sourdough toast, and waffles topped with fruit, ice cream, strawberry coulis and white chocolate sauce.
It’s the stuff viral Instagram posts are built on, as are their whopping platters filled with similar fare.
As for the rest of the menu, it’s a modern collection of trending items steering from red velvet
pancakes to a salmon poke bowl.
Disappointingly, the chilli pork croissant ($17) is unavailable during my visit, as is the corn and potato croquette which accompanies the eggs benedict ($17).
“It’s been a busy morning,” says the girl apologetically when I try to order at the counter of the strikingly feminine café, with its abundance of artificial flora sprouting from almost every corner of the otherwise modest indoor-outdoor space. Sensing my disappointment, she offers to replace the croquette in the benedict with a hash brown.
The packet potato cake is no substitute for what would have been handmade spud and corn parcels, but the poached eggs are perfectly runny, the bacon a generous portion (you can alternatively have mushrooms, salmon or pork belly) and the sriracha hollandaise carrying just the right degree of heat.
The haloumi stack ($17) is one of many vegetarian dishes available, shining with the tanned Cypriot cheese, runny-yolked eggs, beetroot hummus for earthy notes, balanced by corn kernels cooked in salty miso, and crunchy chickpeas.
Coffee ($3.30-$5.50) is from Veneziano and is full-bodied and well-rounded. There’s also a string of iced drinks including iced matcha and chai lattes, plus smoothies, frappes, milkshakes and a refreshing, though small, apple, orange, pineapple, kiwi and passionfruit juice ($7).
This colourful café is built for fast-paced, Instagram fun, just make sure to get in early to avoid having your breakfast dreams crushed.
Little Dreamer Café
Shop 3/51 Kameruka St, Calamvale
3161 2215
Open Mon-Tue 7.30am-2.30pm, Thu-Sun 7.30am-2.30pm
VERDICT
Food 7.5
Service 7
Ambience 6.5
Value 8
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