Gallery Cafe
Editorial
Gallery Cafe’s recent revamp isn’t flashy but it has made this Booth Street cafe a lot more inviting; the exterior has had a lift, the coffee bar has switched sides and there is more room near the entrance for the glass-domed friands and rich, flat muffins. Gallery Cafe still feels long and rambling, but as it sprawls across three rooms and a hallway or two, the 100 seat cafe is broken up into comfy chunks. A hissing coffee machine churns out Campos coffee after Campos coffee at the front of the cafe, allowing city commuters a quick takeaway cup while they wait at the bus stop immediately out front.
You can breakfast at Gallery Cafe all day long, which is lucky because the lunch menu is underwhelming. Offering little more than sandwiches, burgers and salads you may as well stay home, however the breakfast menu is all kinds of fun. You can choose to have your scrambled eggs jazzed up with feta and shallots or pesto and Spanish onion. There are corn fritters served three ways (with smoked salmon, bacon or double-smoked leg ham) and thick, eggy slices of French toast. During weekdays the service is fine but weekends are a different matter – with three rooms for staff to criss-cross, orders of coffee are forgotten and muffins mislaid.
Jennifer Miller, January 2007
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