I last ate here 12 years ago and since worked overseas. I took my partner here this tmorning for breakfast around 10:30am on Sunday morning. I was so excited that it was still the same place and that it appeared nothing had changed and also that my partner had never been to Bar Italia before, despite eating at a lot of the surrounding cafe's and restraurants over the last 15 years (her son lived just off Norton St for many years). I forgot it was cash only and after giving the order, the person taking the order said that it was cash only and there was an ATM over there, pointing to the street. I said I would go and get a card from my car so I could get cash. After about 10 minutes of trying to find an ATM, I walked into the local pub and got cash from their ATM (cost $2.70 to withdraw). I went back and reordered. When I got back to my partner's table and told her where I went for cash, she pointed to an ATM next to the Gelato Bar in the corner of Bar Italia!!! It would have been nice to have been told that they had an in-house ATM and not pointing to the street. We ordered scrambled egg with smoked salmon and turkish toast; tuna facaccia; flat white; and chocolate cannoli. The scrambled eggs weren't that good (the smoked salmon was) and certainly not to the standard of good cafe's. The focaccia was horrible and the worst I have evber had. Having said that it is very difficult to get focaccia's that were in all good cafe's in the 90's, with roasted eggplant, capsican, mushrooms and selection of cheeses. Because I was overseas for so long and couldn't find what I used to buy, I called Sonoma last year to find where they supply to so I can try and find a good focaccia. I was upset with myself that I ate most of the focaccia. The focaccia was puffy bread and clearly had not been in a hot press for very long. Some luke warm canned tuna, a little bit of soft tomato and some only just melted cheese and not much of it....yuk! The coffee was as I remembered...delicious, as was the chocolate cannoli. My partner couldn't eat all her scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and I asked for a take away plastic container, which we were charged $1 for! I should have tried pasta which I hope is as good as I remembered, but I won't get the chance as we won't be back after such a bad experience.