The Breakfast Club

«I don’t have to run away and live in the street. I can run away and I can go to the ocean, I can go to the country, I can go to the mountains. I could go to Israel, Africa, Afghanistan…»
or you could escape to Northcote and go for brunch at The Breakfast Club.
Hidden away from the maddening crowds of High St, The Breakfast Club is located on the more car friendly St Georges Rd.
In spite of the less charming location, the Breakfast Club is a nice little café, it has street seating, but you’d be more inclined to take up a 2 seat table in the lane out the back. There is probably only space for about 5 people to dine inside. So perhaps its not the ideal choice on a rainy day.
The menu is definitely all about Breakfast. I always seem to opt for the really lovely banana and ricotta hotcakes. The salted caramel, macadamia make this delicious. Yes, I am a sweet tooth!
However I have it on good authority that the eggplant and cauliflour sambal is also a delight.
Worthy of a try this summer, get down to The Breakfast Club… but FYI — it closes at 3:30pm daily, So don’t hesitate!

Great value food with a pet friendly atmosphere. Give the burrito a go. The yogurt sauce is amazing.

From the outside, it’s pretty hard to tell what’s going on. Ostensibly either an old school butcher or tattoo parlor from the signage out the front, breakfast club turns out to be neither. It does however provide good coffee, and of course breakfast.
It is in fact, pretty darn good. The Breakfast club is one of those places you gotta catch early in the morning or you’ll miss out. As such it probably doesn’t make for the best hang-​over destination. This aside, the Potato rosti menu item with two poached eggs, bacon and chipolte mayonnaise is pretty darn good. They also do a wide range of toasties for about $ 12 that yield a generous serve, much more than the stingy and overpriced inner CBD cafes. Popular with the hipster crowd and just about everyone else, Breakfast club is usually busy both for take away coffee and in house dining.

Average and the bircher was shocking. Quirky interior, Quaint courtyard

I tried this place twice last year, and had the same experience — an interminable wait for my food (by which time I’d long-​finished my coffee). The food was fine, but not enough to make me feel like returning — it’s not like we’re short of options in this part of town.

Breakfast Club has a small but good menu, and small but good seating room.
Most of the menu items are breakfasty (duh), and with a bit more flavour than your average fry-​up. I had the egg and bacon roll which was served up on a crusty sourdough roll with spinach, caramelised onions, mustard and mayo — quite the good combo.
I’ve heard mixed things about the staff, but during our visit they were friendly, though a bit distracted and curiously disorganised (we sat at the end table outside, and each time a waiter came out carrying food/​coffee, they’d ask at every single table if the order was for that table).
Seems like it’s getting more and more popular — there was about twice as many people as there was seating room, though this meant a nice quite back area with fairly private seating.

Found on St George’s Rd, Breakfast Club appears at the same time to be out of place with its huge signage and not there at all with it’s subdued colour scheme. Whatever you may be feeling, it’s well worth going inside.
For menu items, you good breakfast should have eggs — Carla’s Eggs are an absolute winner. For those looking for a suggestively healthier option, I’ve had the muesli once or twice and loved it every time. It’s amazing with its fresh green apple and lime. Yum!
After ordering your coffee from walking in you find yourself with nowhere to sit. They mention tables out the back, but you cannot find the way to these said tables. Enter stage left the most amazing door hidden away behind the pantry shelf. The fact customers like us have to pass through it to get outside makes the place just that bit wackier and twisted in an amazing way.
What also will tickle the whacky bone is the kitsch Australiana you’ll find on your table. Salt and pepper shakers in all manner of tragic koalas and kangaroos. Tea towels used by the waiters also often carry this kitsch. True magic. And if you think that’s a winner, check out the bathrooms!
Coffee is great, and for those looking for a morning tea variety the zucchini muffins, however strange in name and thought, will blow you away.

The Breakfast Club is one of many little cafes to have popped up in the inner-​north in the past couple of years. On a busy stretch of St Georges Road, you’d expect the locale to be a shitter in terms of ambiance, but they’ve really managed to come up with a winning formula. The focus here is on the basics: melts, sandwiches, toasts, cereals, baked eggs and good coffee. They do these things well and they do them with a smile.
They do succumb to playing on the names of the actors from the 1985 film of the same name, which will grate for some. Regardless of this minor indiscretion, the feel of the joint is super relaxed and lacking in pretence. It’s also a great place to pick up a coffee and a bacon and egg sandwich on the way to work and is open nice and early (7.30 Tuesday to Friday and 9.30 on weekends) to accommodate the tradies on their morning dash.