The art of the 'good day': this is how you eat breakfast in Sydney
Don't let jet lag cloud your eyes, or your taste buds: classic sydney breakfast predicts, without a doubt, a G day.
**FOR CAFFEINES: WEDGE ESPRESSO **
Embedded in an alley in Cowper Street , in the glebe neighborhood , Wedge is hard to find. But let your morning caffeine craving guide you: his coffee is the stuff of legend.
Yes, it has a menu ( pulled pork sandwiches, similar to shredded meat, they are a delicacy worthy of Olympus), but the hordes of hipsters, executives and various coffee connoisseurs . It's because of the grain Five Senses , expressly brought from the other side of the country. For the perfect milk for an unforgettable latte in winter, and the scoop of ice cream for your iced Milos in summer. Because of the experiments they do every season, like the Coca-Cola granita with American coffee that was all the rage last summer.
Too good to be true? Try it, and in twenty minutes you too will be singing the (coffee-addicted) wonders of wedge.
Pulled pork, apple and kimchi sandwiches
**FOR HANGOVERS: PINBONE **
Although Sydney says good morning like few others, It is a city that lives well at night . You only have to see the bars of King's Cross or the bustle of Oxford Street at three in the morning (on a Tuesday) to be convinced that the Australian scene is for living it.
And the next morning? Head to Pinbone in Woollahra , for the best hangover cure in town: their famous scone with melted smoked cheese and sausage gravy. While you relive, dare with an Australian classic: a toast with butter and Vegemite, a spreadable spiced paste that requires an expert (and local) hand to learn to enjoy.
Ask the waiter for advice and jump in, in a couple of hours you'll be looking forward to nightfall again.
Perfect breakfast for a hangover
**FOR INSTAGRAMERS: ANVIL COFFEE AND CO **
Sydney lends itself to being photographed. Located in one of the most spectacular natural locations in the world, crowned by the famous operahouse , in the city there is no shortage of occasions to pull the trigger.
At Anvil Coffee and Co there is one more opportunity: this café-restaurant rests in Kirribilli, on the north coast, a ferry ride from the port and one of the neighborhoods with the best views of Sydney. Here you can order a bowl of muesli with flambéed rhubarb and some Arab eggs while you watch the sailboats sail under the Harbor Bridge under the watchful eye of the Sydney Tower.
Maybe, for once, you will even forget to take a picture of the food.
Without coffee it would not be the same
**FOR EARLY WINNERS (OR NIGHT owls): MAISYS 24 **
If jet lag keeps you up at night, Maisys , in Cremorne, makes room for you. In this cafe, open 24 hours 365 days a year, they find partiers with no desire to go home with dog walkers and various insomniacs, including more than one recently landed.
The menu ranges from the classics, like pancakes with mascarpone and fruit or eggs to taste or, even overwhelmingly, like a bruschetta with mozzarella and avocado or some nachos with guacamole . And, let's be honest: at four in the morning, whatever comes in... As long as it's accompanied by a flat white.
24 hours of BURGERS
**FOR SURFERS: THREE BLUE DUCKS **
Is there anything more appetizing than poached eggs with salmon to start a Saturday morning? Yes: that those eggs – and the accompanying bed of kale and hazelnuts – arrive after a surfing session.
This is where Three Blue Ducks comes in, on the beachfront in the Bronte neighborhood, where the boards rest at the door next to bicycles and leaky flip-flops . Bathers, runners and other sports fauna are found in this famous place every weekend, and not without reason.
Three Blue Ducks is the answer to the low post-exercise sugar: rice pudding with coconut and lime or torrijas with ricotta and raisins they call from the menu . For those who prefer to replenish salt, the vol-au-vent with bacon and organic eggs will compensate for the effort of dragging the board at six in the morning.
After the feast, you can follow the purebred Aussies and get back on the water… Or have another coffee. The choice is yours.
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