Some of the inclusions in Cheap Eats puzzle me. Take Q 11 (303 Coventry St, South Melbourne) for instance, at least in terms of breakfast. The big breakfast, doesn’t live up to its name, unless you’re talking about the price. For around $17 you get eggs on toast, bacon, tomato, spinach, mushrooms and relish.
This sounds reasonable, except when it arrives and you get a single piece of toast, a single rasher of bacon, a single sausage (are you sensing a pattern?), two eggs, a tomato, spinach, 3 or 4 mushrooms, and relish.
This would be excusable if the food was great, but it’s not. My poached eggs had a texture that suggested that they had been prepared in poaching cups. The roasted tomato was floury, still had the core intact, and didn’t appear to have seen much time in the oven.
On a more positive note, the other components of the dish were better – in particular the good quality sausage pairing well with the relish. The coffee was competently made, and the service is friendly.
This wouldn’t be enough to draw me back though. At least not until the prices fall a little, or they stop being so stingy with the bread and bacon.