Skinnys Eatery — Restaurant in Melbourne

I’d heard great things about @skinnys.eatery so it was on our list to try. On a very cold and chilly June morning, we braved the weather and sat outdoors, prepared, we brought lap rugs. The place was flat out busy at 11am so we put in our orders because clearly people were waiting for a table inside or out. The menu selection is small and somewhat #fastfood in style. Certainly if you ordered one of their burgers to-go it would be easy to eat on the run. Three of us had the fried chicken, hash brown. American cheese, maple bbq sauce and dill pickles English muffin. For $17 with no side salad or fries, it’s an expensive ‘snack’. Another in our party had the bacon, fried egg and Irish cheddar muffin, again not much bigger than a Maccas cheeseburger but way tastier. And finally the hungriest of all of us had the pastrami, American cheese, diner egg, house made hot sauce sourdough sandwich. It didn’t fill him so he went back and ordered a chicken salad sandwich with pickled jalapeño majo, butter lettuce, tomato, pickled onion in sourdough. $18.50 for the latter. Add in six hot drinks plus and a donut style cake which was exceptionally delicious and it all totalled over $160! That’s $32 a head for a very lightweight breakfast. I’m going to have to reconsider eating out at these prices. Bonus at #skinnyseatery are the magnificent staff. They are friendly, fast, efficient and happy to swap that bbq sauce for tomato sauce or grab a little honey for your chai. Those little extra touches are appreciated. Can’t fault them on that front. Plenty of people visiting. Many with their kids and dogs. Skinnys has a popular following. Notes: parking is pretty easy out the front or in the side streets with some time limits, kid friendly, toilets onsite, dietaries catered for, nice ambience.

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@skinnys.eatery 📍 Preston

✔️ Cinnamon French Toast, Whipped Bacon Fat, Grilled Banana ✔️ Pastrami Egg & Cheese Sandwich, Hot Sauce, Chicken Salt Hash Brown

Skinny’s is an retro eatery located on Gilbert Road in Preston. Housed in an old 1930’s milk bar, they have still kept its old school charm and nostalgia running, from the fit out to the Nippy’s milk cartons in the fridge.🥤

The menu includes feel good, diner style brunch items. Coffee and Chai both ok, was I dissapointed my cappuccino didn’t come with chocolate on top? Maybe. The Cinnamon French Toast with Whipped Bacon Fat Butter and Maple Syrup was so homely and humble, yet perfected. Of course I added the grilled banana for a little extra. I did feel the dish lacked texture, everything was so soft. 🍌

The sandwich section of their menu seems to have a bit of American inspiration, I went with the Pastrami Egg & Cheese, paired with one of their Chicken Salt Hash Browns. The sandwich was very tasty, I could definitely have that every morning. 🤗

I do find charging for sauce a bit icky, $1 for tomato, $1.50 for hot sauce. Actually, there is an optional add on for almost every dish on the menu. Personally I’ve always thought if adding something is going to make is even just 2x better, it should just be included. However I guess this keeps the prices down for those who want something more basic. C’est la vie.

A very friendly, very relaxed spot in the neighbourhood, was nice to see regulars come in to support and chat with the team. It is small with limited seating inside for smaller groups, but plenty outside weather permitting....

Lured by the promise of a memorable meal in a nostalgic 1970's establishment, what we got was an unexpected lesson in the biology of decomposition - Pastrami Postmortem!

The pastrami sandwich we were served emanated the unmistakable aroma of something that had lost the will to live weeks prior. The kind of smell that would have even the most ravenous of vultures turning up their beaks!! The hope of a New York Deli style Pastrami sandwich was rudely extinguished upon being presented with a glut of bloody meat- whose malodorous smell can only be described as that of a decomposing carcass on the beach at low tide- jammed between two slabs of bread! Politely, we quietly brought this to the attention of the woman behind the counter. Nothing dramatic.... no rudeness....no demands...just a gentle heads-up that, perhaps, the freshness of the meat was questionable. She immediately went into defensive mode and put up a wall of denial. Unbelievably, this revolting relic is their 'best seller', and highly revered by “many patrons.” If this is in fact true, I have grave concerns for the blind tastebuds and digestive tracts of the regular Preston patrons that frequent this establishment. We didn't ask for much. A replacement, a refund, even a simple 'sorry the meal didn't meet your expectations' would’ve sufficed. Instead, we got gaslit into thinking the problem was us — not the sandwich that could have been used as bait on a wildlife documentary! Needless to say, we definitely won’t be back. If you do decide to visit, be sure to prime your stomach to a calibre of...