Best of the Gold Coast 2019: The Gold Coast’s top 10 eggs benedicts as voted by you
The perfect Gold Coast weekend wouldn’t be complete without this breakfast classic. After counting the votes, we can now reveal the top 10 eggs benedict in the region.
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The perfect Gold Coast weekend wouldn’t be complete without this breakfast classic. After counting the votes, we can now reveal the top 10 eggs benedict in the region as voted by you.
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10. One Little Tree Cafe
4/28 Dixon Drive, Pimpama
Head to One Little Tree Cafe on the right day and you might find an Aussie pub favourite on the eggs benedict menu. “Sometimes we do a special which is a chicken schnitzel benny, many people like that one,” One Little Tree owner and chef Ben Lin says. “We’re thinking of putting in on the menu all the time.” The regular eggs benedict options include bacon, salmon, ham and pulled pork, with the option of an English muffin, croissant or sourdough toast for a bread base.
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9. Coming Home Co
The Kitchens, Robina Town Centre Drive, Robina
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House maple glazed bacon and poppy seed hollandaise make for a sophisticated eggs benedict at Coming Home Co. “We glaze the bacon with our own signature maple glaze,” Coming Home Co chef Bee Tagg says. “Then we make our own hollandaise sauce, it’s a poppy seed hollandaise. We have a little bit of a tang in the hollandaise to balance out the sweetness of the maple glaze, but we also do a plain eggs benedict, a pulled beef benedict, and smoked salmon.”
8. Double Barrel Kitchen
4/64 Karbunya st Mermaid Waters
Have you ever visited a cafe and been told they’ve run out of hollandaise? The idea makes Double Barrel Kitchen owner Jess Winters recoil. “You can run out, but it’s so simple to make more,” she says. “Sometimes we make hollandaise two or three times a day.” Double Barrel’s eggs benny is served on sourdough with hot smoked trout, cold salmon, bacon, ham off the bone or mushrooms and spinach.
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7. 42Fifteen Cafe
9 Davenport St, Southport
42Fifteen offers two vegetarian benedict options and three for the omnivores. It’s served with toast, spinach leaves and a zesty hollandaise. “The hollandaise sauce is like a citrus version, made with oranges and some vinegar,” 42Fifteeen manager Lissette Helriquez says. “We’ve got it with truffle mushrooms, American bacon, smoked salmon and avocado. We have a whole lot of options for the vegetarians.”
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6. Cafe All Sorts
34 Musgrave St, Coolangatta
Eggs benedict is the gravy train at Cafe All Sorts. “It’s our biggest seller,” chef and owner Katrina Barlow says. The Kirra Beach cafe builds its benny with a drizzle of burnt balsamic reduction followed by artisan sourdough toast, wilted baby spinach and your choice of protein, topped with mustard hollandaise. “We make it every couple of hours to keep up,”’ Kartina says. “It’s very important when you own a cafe to have a homemade hollandaise. A traditional benny should be a traditional benny.”
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5. First Fruits
1/129-133 Olsen Ave, Labrador
First Fruit’s eggs benedict is known to pause conversation as customers savour the rich breakfast treat. “This tribal elder came in and was trying to sell us coffee to roast from Papua New Guinea,” First Fruits owner Daniel Smith says. “He was so consumed by this eggs benedict, he couldn’t sell his product.” First Fruit’s eggs benedict is served on top of a sweet potato rosti, with a lemon-based hollandaise. Daniel says the Byron Bay Chook Prince poached eggs are so nourishing, the yolks glow a vibrant yellow.
4. Blackboard Coffee
7/240 Varsity Parade, Varsity Lakes
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With soft poached eggs and lashing of moist sauce, lingering on your eggs benny can sometimes end in a soggy mess. Blackboard Coffee has added some crunch to its brunch and stacks the eggs atop homemade hash browns. “Eggs benny can be quite soft, this gives it texture,” Blackboard Coffee owner Marc Kinvig says. “We wanted to do something different, make it more unique to what we do. The hash browns are unbelievable.” In keeping with Blackboard’s refined dining, the eggs benedict is served with the option of thin bacon, thick bacon, pancetta, wild mushrooms or smoked salmon.
3. Helena’s Espresso
Shop 5/2-4 New St, Nerang
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This eggs benedict is given an ethnic twist with an ingredient spicing things up on top. Helena Jaffar, the owner of Helena’s Espresso, pays tribute to her cultural background with a saffron infused hollandaise. “I’ve got a Persian background, it’s what mum used to make,” Helena says. “My chef David, I gave him the idea, and he’s put it all together and executed it. It’s smooth and then you’ve got that tangy saffron taste to it.” The eggs benedict is served with brasserie bread or a croissant and ham off the bone or smoky bacon.
2. Frigg Cafe
10A Frank Street, Labrador
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Frigg Cafe’s hollandaise is the secret family recipe of a former Surfers Paradise icon. “The recipe is from my mother-in-law,” Frigg Cafe co-owner Toula Scott says. “Her name’s Glennys, she was a meter maid on the Gold Coast. She’s 78 this year.” The signature hollandaise has a lemon base and is served atop grilled sourdough and smoked leg ham, hickory smoked bacon, smoked salmon and baby spinach or haloumi and mushrooms. “We’re going through probably 12 litres of hollandaise a week, which is a lot of hollandaise,” Toula says.
1. Le Vintage Boutique
1 Kurilpa St, Worongary
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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, says Le Vintage Boutique — a mantra that’s won the Worongary cafe top spot in our eggs benedict two years in a row.
“We’ll mix up the rest of the menu but with things like that, why change something that’s not broken?” Le Vintage owner Joel Aston says.
“The eggs benedict is always the same, it’s really consistent.”
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With a creamy hollandaise sauce and five options to choose from, the benny is the golden egg on the menu.
It’s served on an English muffin with your choice of smoked salmon, ham, bacon, spinach and mushrooms or pulled pork.
“Pulled pork is probably the least popular, but the ones that have it have it over and over,” Joel says.
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