Saturday, December 6, 2008

Riva Cafe (Melbourne)

Address: The Walk Arcade, Shop 9-11, 323 Bourke Street Melbourne VIC 3000
Phone: (03) 9654 0404

Sorry for the painfully tryhard photo - but one not a regular in the city streets of Melbourne would never have found this place. It is in an alley near the Myer city Store, so if the place you're in kind of looks like the alley as pictured above - you may have found it!

I was promised the best eggs benedict - I got greedy and wanted ham & spinach so I ordered what they would call a modified "Queen Breakfast" (it usually has smoked salmon instead of the ham) - blanched spinach, poached eggs, virginian ham with herbed (forgot what the secret herb was) hollandaise sauce, served on a toasted english muffin.

Can't say it was the best in the whole-wide-world, simply because I haven't been to the whole-wide-world, but the herbed hollandaise sauce gave it definitive character and a reason to go back. Coffee was not bad either...

When in Rome...