Two Good Eggs Cafe — Restaurant in Sydney

The servings at Two Good Eggs are massive. The Two Good Eggs Breakfast (essentially their big breakfast), whether you take the vegetarian option or the regular one, will have you full the entire day. People don’t walk out of this Surry Hills cafe, they roll. That’s not to say that the chef is exchanging quality for quantity, quite the contrary. The coffee is consistently good and the kitchen dishes out their own takes on breakfast classics that will have you coming back for more.

If a big breakfast doesn’t take your fancy, the menu has many other options. The baked eggs are spot on with the Spanish version (above), laced with salami, olives and manchego cheese, superior to the pumpkin, pesto and fetta option. The breakfast burgers are all winners, both on taste and value, with the prosciutto, parmesan, poached egg (yes, only one!), spinach and tomato relish burger outshining the others. “Goats on toast" (below) is a real surprise as French goats cheese mingles with honey and walnuts on sour cherry fruit toast that doesn’t seem like it would go together but gels superbly, like Arnie and Danny Devito.

What I like most about Two Good Eggs is the little touches. From the small chocolate on every coffee to a cute little tub of Spanish tomato relish with most egg dishes. Most of all, the basics are there: perfectly poached eggs, an interesting and dynamic specials board and friendly staff who are happy to have your custom. It might not be a cafe where you take your overseas visitors but it’s where you meet your friends every Saturday to analyse the shenanigans from the previous evening. One visit will have you coming...

So my regular cafe was closed today so off I trot to the competition just for shits and giggles. Oh dear. First impressions was of stepping back to the sixties minus the cigarette smoke. Gaudy wallpaper and painted besa blocks. Every horizontal surface crammed with plastic crap and dusty grease covered jars of food and water.

So I sat and ordered and waited...waited...and waited some more. A couple came and sat at the table, ordered and were served with their food before mine came. Cardinal sin people! My drink was cold when my breakfast eventually turned up, which was nothing at all to write about. Yes there were nicely poached eggs about the size a stressed out cage hen might lay and three, yes three whole mushrooms. Tiny hash brown pretenders full of potato slop poorly deep fried out of the freezer bag. Most of the plate was taken up with toast. And who the hell wants to fiddle about with single serve butter foils? If I want to eat out of plastic I'll go to Macca's.

Unimpressed generally. Time warp interior and time warp food ponced up to attempt to fit in to the twenty-first century. Service was last century too although they were young and pleasant. $26 for breakfast and 45 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Come and enjoy this cafe if you have lower...

The staff was really friendly but I wouldn't recommend for anyone with celiac. I got the scrambled eggs with gluten free toast. I asked the waitress if the GF bread was toasted in the same spot as the normal bread to which she said yes so I asked for my bread not to be toasted since I have an allergy. My fiancé also got GF bread with his order but got his toasted as he isn't allergic. When our meals came out I realized they mixed up the bread, so I got the toasted bread and my fiancé got the untoasted bread. The untoasted bread was cold and hard so was terrible to eat. So is definitely not worth getting the GF bread if you're not getting it toasted. Also, my meal was served with tomato relish which I saw online is often times is made with flour. I only saw this after we left the restaurant so I didn't ask what was in theirs, so I'd recommend asking if you come here. I also got the pot of chai tea which looked cool but all the honey sunk to the bottom of the pot so the first cup wasn't sweet at all and the second was overly sweet. If you get this maybe try stirring the pot before pouring? All in all it's probably great for someone without allergies, but would say it's not safe...