Brunetti (194-204 Faraday Street, Carlton) is known primarily for its cakes and coffee, so perhaps ordering bacon and eggs wasn’t the best idea. The eggs had been ‘poached’ in those little plastic cups and the unbuttered white bread looked suspiciously like it was from the supermarket. Thankfully the bacon was fried to a good level of crispness, and there was plenty of it.
Some people object to paying more than $5 for a loaf of bread, reasoning that water, flour and yeast are very inexpensive ingredients. Me, I don’t see it that way. There’s a lot of skill that goes into making good bread. However, when I’m paying this much, I expect a certain level of quality - something I didn’t get from my $5.80 sourdough loaf from Browns. It didn’t have interesting texture, and the flavour was lacking, making it little better than supermarket bread.