These pancakes fell a little short of my expectations if I have to be honest. I could hardly make out the taste of earl grey in the three-tier pancakes. The other components of this dish (white chocolate Macadamia crumbles, Kuromitsu, poached pear) dovetailed decently, but somehow couldn’t deliver a punch of flavour upon union. 😩 Still though, the best moment of this dish was having a piece of the supple, sweet-like-summer poached pear (contains no alcohol) with the pancake. Its lucid flavour complements the deeper tones of the chocolate sauce, even though some have said that it offsets instead.

This place seems to pivot its selling point on evoking the uptown brunch culture though – for one, they’ve decked out the place sumptuously in monochrome, post-industrial theme, with high ceilings lending to its spacious feel. ✨ The items you’ll find on the menu are also what you’d conveniently expect to see in those of the slew of cafés in Melbourne (i.e the mecca of brunches). Coming to this place also endows you with some status, I believe - it’ll make you feel like you’re that ‘atas’ alpha male or bad bitch. Anyone in denial of this can feel free to correct me! 🤗😬

If you’re coming here to feel assuaged by food, well…prepare to feel like you’re missing a little something. But if you genuinely enjoy partaking in the brunch experience, I believe this place is definitely the one that nails it in that aspect. 😯 This insight was something that I realised only in hindsight. (7.5/10)