Awesome coffee, tasty breakfast wraps, and friendly service. Highly recommend.
Love this place. Everything about it is amazing. Staff, coffee, food, music. Can't recommend it enough. Coming here is a great way to just stop and smell the beans before you get on with the busyness of life!
Brilliant place with friendly attentive staff AND great service! Top that off with surprisingly delicious food- a real winner!
I cannot fault this cafe, service is always polite, friendly and attentive. The cafe is quite small though and very popular so it can become a bit overcrowded, definitely recommend booking in advance. I’ve tried several items on the menu and have always enjoyed them.
Friendly staff and fast service. We went for lunch and coffee. This place is very cosy and nice atmosphere and my husband was very happy with his burger. I had chicken sandwich which was good.
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Sometimes all you need to see is the outside of a cafe to know it’s going to be good. Just a quick glance will do it. Lily Loves George was just such a place ... subtle window signage (if you will at least ignore the giant gorilla street art when you walk up from the other direction), and a homely warm looking interior. A queue forming just before 12noon and all the tables occupied already bar the table I got and one that was reserved for later.
I chose a Reuben sandwich from behind the counter. This was a popular choice by us blokes as in the 30 minutes I was inside all but one was taken. Coffee arrived before my toasted Reuben and it was satisfying if not a tad on the weak side of acceptable for me (I should have gone strong).
The Rueben was a very tasty combination of cheese, sauerkraut and in this instance pepper coated corned beef slices. The pepper gave the sandwich a lovely zing about it and was definitely tasty. I really enjoy this item. I didn’t see they had a menu of dishes to try and was for a second filled with fomo when a fellow diner was served up a delish looking burger. Then I remembered how good my lunch was and all was good.
Really friendly staff who knew a fair few of the regulars by name. Will be one place I come back to for certain... possibly with my folks or folks in law (locals) in tow.
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Back in the day, this was a butcher shop, a little butcher shop with a very friendly butcher, now it's a little cafe with very friendly staff. It can get a bit squishy in here, with a banquette running from the door to the back wall of the dining area, and several (maybe 5) tables for two, one for up to three and a couple for four. With quite a few businesses in this area, there was a constant flow of take-away orders, and generally it seemed as if staff knew most of the faces grabbing their cuppas.
My teen and I managed to grab a table just before 9.00am, and shortly after that, there wasn't a spot left. I am told the cappuccino was good, but I have decided I am just not into Prana Chai 'masala blend'. Firstly as with other cafes that use this product (it's popular, clearly), there's just not enough flavour, it's not a bad taste, it's just weak. I am also not a fan of the fact all the lovely froth is left in the strainer that is needed for the solids not to be added to the cup. You can't even skim the cinnamon and froth off, as there are bits of spice floating in that. Whinge over.
Miss selected one of the breakfast muffins from the window, they are egg and bacon and you have a choice of either a bbq sauce with it, or a tomato relish. Initially the relish was requested 'on the side' but they're already built, so she went with the bbq sauce instead. They're put in a panini press I suspect, it came piping hot - not sure if a microwave was in play before the press. In any case, it was enjoyed (though the bbq sauce was deemed a bit too sweet for her), and had to be eaten with a knife and fork, as it was a bit sticky on the outside - and super-heated, so not your usual eat with your hands muffin.
I went with 'Benny', choice of toasted sourdough or multigrain with bacon, two poached eggs, hollandaise and a fine julienne of apple. This was lovely, good bacon, well-cooked poached eggs and a golden hollandaise.
To finish, the teen decided she had room for a treat - a Chocolate and Raspberry Gateau was staring directly at her and resistance was futile it seems. it's a tube of dark chocolate encasing layers of chocolate and raspberry cake, topped with fresh raspberries - 7 of them in fact, in winter, in Melbourne, and Miss delighted in every one of them, which she said offset the sweetness of the cake well.
If you can snaffle a spot to eat in, I think you will be pleased. If there is nowhere to sit, consider take-away as I was tempted by the baguettes in the display cabinet, along with the lunch menu items, and specials on the blackboard too.
The Portuguese tart had a deliciously smooth eggy custard with a hint of caramelised sugar on top (see first pic). It was a nice size (a little bit bigger than most Portuguese tarts I've seen/eaten) and the pastry was thin and flaky. This was very nice with a cuppa.
This place is busy for a reason . The service , food , juices and coffee are all of the quality you'd expect on Brunswick or Acland street , but in the beautiful borough of Blackburn.
This quaint little cafe is the perfect place to go for some decent coffee and a nice meal if ever in the Blackburn area. The cafe has a casual, cozy feel to it, and the staff are very friendly and inviting. The quality of the food here is good, and the presentation is nice, without a 'professional' vibe.
Great smashed avo and poached eggs on toast. Chai tea was good too (they do leaves, not powder). Nice atmosphere and very friendly staff, will definitely go back again. :)
We had the Today's special which is the chicken burger. The chicken was cooked to perfection and I love the bacon jam on the buns. Chips were served with the burger. They were crunchy on the outside and creamy on the inside. The staff at the cafe were really friendly and the service was good. Will definitely go back next time.
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