After Bold Street coffee experienced issues in
their current property last year, they set up temporarily in everyone’s
favourite pizza hangout: Santa Maluco, serving their legendary coffee and a
bangin’ brunch. Now, they’ve relocated back to where they belong (Bold Street)
but left behind a hungry Castle Street, yearning for a decent brunch and a good
cup of coffee. Behold: Castle Street Coffee. We went down to see if it lived up
to expectations.
There is something ridiculously cool about Santa Maluco, at any time of day.
Graffiti stained walls, long wooden tables and old-school classroom style
chairs, it’s a truly unique place to enjoy pizza, brunch, cocktails and even
just a coffee. Of course, a lazy Sunday morning here has a totally different
vibe to a five-dollar shake fuelled Saturday night, but the transition is done
perfectly. With chilled out music on the speakers and the sun shining through
its big windows, there’s few better venues to enjoy a Sunday morning brunch.
After being seated and ordering two Americano’s, we set to work on the Castle
Street Coffee brunch menu – a healthy selection of both sweet and savoury
options, without being overwhelming. From pancakes and porridge to baked eggs
and the full works, we were definitely spoilt for choice.
We decided on a warm bowl of the castle street porridge with fruit, fruit
compote nuts and seeds, a bowl of fresh fruit and yoghurt, creamy mushrooms on
toast and the CSC breakfast – the full works with home made beans and a hash
brown (we swapped our egg for avocado but there are a list of additions you can
add to the dish including eggs, extra mushrooms and extra hash browns). Our
breakfast arrived after enough time to leisurely sip a sunday coffee without
being too hungry and it looked delicious. Creamy, garlicky mushrooms piled high
on a slice of thick sourdough toast, a plate of sausage, bacon, homemade beans
and all the workings of a full english, plus natural yoghurt and porridge each
piled with a generous portion of fruit.
The standout dish of the morning had to be the mushrooms on toast, a dish
packed full of garlicky goodness, stacked high on doorstop toast. The CSC was a
close second with a delicious helping of homemade beans, there was, however, no
hash brown, which was either forgotten or totally neglected. Whilst this didn’t
take away from the overall, delicious flavour of the dish, it might have been a
problem for someone that deems a hash brown to be an important part of their
Sunday morning. Awol hash brown aside, we had a delicious breakfast, with
sweet, hot porridge and indulgent, velvety yoghurt and honey, finishing it off
nicely.
Whether you’re after the full works on a Sunday morning, a quick and nutritious
bowl of porridge to start your day before work or even just that much needed
take out coffee, don’t hesitate to pay a visit to Castle Street coffee – you
won’t be disappointed. Now open in 7 days a week in Santa Maluco!
