Time, Date: Sunday 1st July, 11.15am
What we ordered: We started off with two skinny chocolate milkshakes, then we ordered scrambled eggs with sausage and tomato, on toast, and scrambled eggs and scallops on grain toast. We then had three lattes and a cappuccino.
Ambience
Spargos is a spacious, contemporary setting set on Bridge Road with plenty of natural light. There is a selection of paintings on the wall, nothing too challenging just cheerful bright designs which add a nice touch. There is a log fire in the back room (which was not on when we visited but I have seen it being used in the past). There are also newspapers and magazines to browse through.
Rating: 4 coffee cups out of 5
Service
The service was pretty good, we were led to a table straight away. Two or three people waited our table, all of them were polite and friendly. We didn't have to wait too long for anything to arrive although we were a bit annoyed that the menu said the scrambled eggs and sausages were served with tomato relish and we didn't get any relish. We were also shown a breakfast menu but no drinks menu so when we ordered coffees and milkshakes we had no idea how much we were going to pay.
Rating: 3 coffee cups out of 5
Quality of Food
The food has always been good at Spargos when we've been in the past but we were both slightly disappointed today. First off the milkshakes were a bit small - it could be argued that this is a value for money issue rather than a quality one but it was also served in a warm glass - milkshakes just HAVE to be in those big metal beakers! We also found the eggs to be a bit salty, in my case this may have been because of the scallops (of which there were plenty, and they were well cooked!) but they actually tasted less salty than the eggs. The sausages, tomato and toast were all well cooked.
Rating: 3 coffee cups out of 5
Extra Touches
We have a small baby so it is vital that a place is baby friendly and Spargos is, having a pram was no problem at all. I also quite liked the fact that that there were more than a dozen very subdued Kiwi rugby fans there!
Rating: 3 coffee cups out of 5
Value for Money
The cost of eating out in Melbourne is always going to depend on the postcode but we still found over 50 dollars for two smallish breakfasts, four coffees and couple of small milkshakes a bit on the steep side.
Rating: 2 coffee cups out of 5
Conclusion
We had a nice relaxing couple of hours at Spargos, it was an interesting beginning to our culinary journey around Melbourne and we'll see you next week!
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