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SUNDAY BRUNCH
With its walls decked out in kitsch nick-nacks and mismatched Formica furniture, Johnny's Cafe is cross between a
funky share house and grandma's art deco kitchen.
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On a quiet street in this rapidly gentrifying inner southern suburb, Johnny's has been serving thoughtful,
Hungarian influenced fare since 1999.
My pick at this time of day is the Big Breakfast of oven-poached eggs on top of a bowl of solet - Johnny's
mum's recipe of homemade slow-baked beans with the added nutty warmth of barley.
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We don't realise the cafe is vegetarian until my bacon-hunting companion can't find it on the all day breakfast menu,
but he is very happy with the Hungarian-style scrambled eggs which arrive topped with lecso, a thick and zingy tomato
and capsicum salsa.
We couldn't resist one of the tempting pastries, our choice being to share a walnut snail, with some excellent chai
and coffee. The original Johnny's had a strong following in Balmain in the 1980s where it established a reputation
for fine coffee - a tradition that is proudly continued in the cafe's current digs.
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