L ordered the fruit toast with ricotta, strawberries and maple syrup (AU$10). Shortly after she placed her order, a waiter came to our table to tell her: “Very sorry, but we are out of ricotta. Would you like something else instead, cream cheese, perhaps?” L was a little disappointed – she loves ricotta and had been looking forward to it – she asked for some plain yoghurt instead.

L buttered her fruit toast, then poured the maple syrup right on top of the toast. After spreading the maple syrup over the fruit toast with her knife, L proceeded to arrange her strawberries on top of the toast. It looked pretty good to me.

Workmate J ordered eggs Benedict (AU$13). She added plenty of black pepper to her eggs before I took the photo. We all liked the look of the big slices of ham and the eggs smothered in thick hollandaise sauce.

The egg yolks were good and gooey. Workmate J quite enjoyed this dish.

I ordered the omelette with ham, mushrooms, leeks, tomato and cheese (AU12). When my dish arrived, I was surprised to see my “omelette” in a baking dish.

I pushed back the fresh rocket leaves to get a better look at my not-an-omelette. To me, this definitely wasn’t an omelette, but it smelled delicious.

My dish was not at all what I’d expected. I know there are different styles of “omelette”, but in this context (breakfast in a Perth cafe) I suppose I was expecting a more French-style omelette, eggs served folded over on the plate, certainly not served in a baking dish. Perhaps this should have been called a fritatta, or oven-baked eggs. Actually, they tasted like scrambled eggs – delicious, deluxe scrambled eggs with extra yummy goodies! Beneath the soft eggs studded with sweet cubes of fresh baked tomato were sliced leeks and chunky-cut ham and mushrooms. There was a lot of juice at the bottom of the dish, tasty mushroom juice with a hint of ham. :) I used the spoon that came with my tea to drink up the mushroom juice (my dish wasn’t served with a spoon). It was a pretty filling breakfast dish (and a pretty breakfast dish that was also filling!). The large slices of toast that came with my dish were quite thinly cut and crispy and tasted great with butter. I like thick-cut toast, but once in a while, crispy thin toast just hits the spot – the toast complemented the soft eggs perfectly.