Auction Rooms @ North Melbourne

On most weekends, the usual eating routine involves eating a substantial brunch and that usually fills me up till dinner. Last Saturday, we ate way too early and too little and by 2pm, we were feeling peckish so we decided to go for some food hunting (so typical of us).

Since we haven't had our caffeine for the day, I looked back at some of the blogger comments left in my previous coffee hunt post and decided we were going to head to "Auction Rooms".

The weather was awesome, cooling enough to put on a sweater, yet enough sun for those who love the rays. It looked rather peaceful from outside but it was packed to the brim inside. Thankfully we wanted to take a table outside and there was no waiting list unlike for the indoor tables.

We saw a few interesting items on the menu, right after we ordered, the Wife's cousin said the french toast was awesome. Oh well, next time.

The coffee was good as it should be since they pride themselves to be coffee specialists.

So what did we order? An interesting deep fried pork belly wrapped with an asian crepe served alongside with two half poached / fried eggs and a coleslaw. The pork belly was fried to a sticky texture and if one was looking for sauce, the liquid egg yolk was there. All in all, something "different".

Will we come back? I don't see why not, after all we still haven't tried the French Toast yet.

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Verdict: 4 stars out of 5 stars. We like what we ate and what we saw. A good recommendation for coffee and food.