Pistachio, Seddon

So huge was my brekky with the lot this morning that I fully expected a tyre blow-out as I scootered home. Unlike at Green Grocer, the serves are big at Pistachio, 86a Charles Street, Seddon, Tel +61 3 9687 1374. Very big. It's enough to turn a bloke bulemic.



The quality was good too, with creamy, Bill's-style scrambled eggs, tasty bacon, a juicy veal and pork sausage, tomato and capsicum relish, mushrooms, tomato, spinach and a "potato and sage" hash brown. I super-sized all this with a side of house-made baked canellini beans with tomato and marjoram sauce. The weak links were the tomato (which was under-cooked rather than "slow roasted") and the hash brown (which was padded with some kind of batter). And the spinach was only barely wilted.

According to Seddon local Andrew D, Pistachio's house-made crumpets are also pretty special. They serve them with stewed apple and mango compote and Indian treacle, which beats plain old honey. Another one for the sugar-freaks is the toasted vanilla brioche, served with mixed berry compote and "orange blossom cream" (only $8.50).

Speaking of crumpet, it's Derby Day today, which means half of Melbourne suits up, slips on a fancy frock and gets pissed in the car-park at Flemington. It also means that by late afternoon, the whole city has turned into a giant game of Frogger, with trashed race-goers leaping randomly in front of on-coming traffic. Scary.

15/20 "home-grown crumpet"