Kazbah, Balmain

If there's one thing I absolutely love about Sydney, it's the absolute variety of brunch spots across the Sydney. No matter what you like for breakfast, you're bound to find a place that takes your fancy. Kazbah in Balmain does just that, but with a Middle Eastern flavour.

Trawling through (and finally cleaning up), my camera's memory card of some 1000 photos, I stumbled across pictures of our breakfast there in September of last year. Just a couple of weeks shy of Roman's arrival, I couldn't resist taking Mr Ladybird out to celebrate his first Father's Day... it seems like so long ago, how time flies!

Kazbah has a number of locations in Sydney, but has been open in Balmain since 1998. I love the atmosphere there - the colours, the flowers, the lanterns.. it all gets you in the Moroccan mood, even early in the morning. They are open for breakfast from 8am and offer their breakfast menu until 3pm! Their breakfast menu is extensive (you can check it for yourself here) with dishes ranging in price from around $15 - $20.

We started off with some drinks, of course. A coffee for Mr Ladybird ($4) and a juice of the day for me, in this case, a watermelon juice (a bit steep, I felt, at a hefty $6.50!)

And for the most important meal of the day, Mr Ladybird happily tucked into his brilliant Breakfast Tagine ($19.50) -  Roast Pumpkin, spinach, roast capsicum, roast tomato, caramelised onion, feta and eggs, all served with turkish toast.

At 8 months pregnant, I was feeling like I was just about as big as humanly possible, so I threw my usual dietary caution to the wind and indulged in the French Toast (usually comes with bacon, I ordered mine sans swine), glazed baby figs, double cream and apple cinnamon syrup ($18). Looking at this photo has me drooling all over again!

All in all a most enjoyable breakfast with prompt, friendly service. So next time you're looking for a place for breakfast and you're a bit tired of the stock standard breakfast menu options, Kazbah is well worth checking out. Be sure to book though, they get very very busy on weekends!

Til next time, dear readers...
Ladybird xxx

Kazbah
379 Darling St, Balmain
(02) 9555 7067

My darling Rosebud

It was a beautiful Sunday in Sydney yesterday and so Mr Ladybird and I decided to go out and enjoy our wonderful city. The morning seemed to start off ok until poor Mr Ladybird slammed his finger in the front door while leaving the house :( Good thing we were headed somewhere nice! We went to Rosebud on Darling St, Rozelle. We had been there before a few weeks ago and enjoyed it so much, so we just had to go back. (Plus - did you know that Rosebud was featured on Masterchef?!!)

Shortly after we were seated, a friendly waitress took our coffee order, and our lattes arrived on minutes later.. they were very very good.

The food and service is exeptional, no matter how busy it is there... I had the French toast pan fried raisin brioche w sour cherries, mascarpone, toasted almonds & maple syrup. It was delicious and not too sweet, and the crunch of the toasted almonds is heavenly. Although... one of my french toast pieces was a bit runny and soggy inside (uncooked egginess is not my thing).



Mr Ladybird had the Vegetarian breakfast and loved every morsel of it. It included crunchy herb polenta, field mushroom,truss tomatoes, dukkah spiced potato, spinach & marinated basil feta, plus poached eggs. The little dukkah potato was a nice touch - always nice to see something different in a vegetarian breakfast.


Overall a very enjoyable breakfast at Rosebud.. will definitely be returning before long.
To check out Rosebud's homepage, click here.


Love,

ladybird x